Washington News

Taxpayers seek to beat clock

Online Hope Star - Thu Oct 09

The clock is ticking for local taxpayers. Friday is the deadline for payment of personal and real estate taxes in the Tax Collector's Office on the second floor of the Hempstead County Courthouse.

Experts offer carnival analysis

Online Hope Star - Wed Oct 08

Hope Star Editor Two consultants expected to offer testimony for the family of a seven-year old boy killed in an April, 2007, carnival ride accident here have concluded that the ride operator should have been ...

Free flu shots slated

Online Hope Star - Wed Oct 08

The Hempstead County Health Unit will offer free flu shots on Friday, Nov. 7, from 9 to 5 p.m. at Hope Fair Park.

Harvest Foods close certain

Online Hope Star - Mon Oct 06

Hope Star Editor An official of the Little Rock-based investor group which operates Harvest Foods here said Friday there was no likely scenario under which the grocery store which has done business here for 50 ...

Personal tax deadline

Online Hope Star - Mon Oct 06

The deadline for payment of personal and real estate tax is Friday. Hempstead County Tax Collector Quetta Smith said anyone who has not received the homestead credit check statement should contact the ...

82-year-old man shoots wife, self

FOX16.com - Sat Oct 04

Authorities say an 82-year-old man is suspected of killing his wife at her home in Murfreesboro before driving to Millwood Lake taking and his own life as his son watched.

Beebe not sure of global warming commission's authority

Texarkana Gazette - Wed Oct 01

Construction of the proposed John W. Turk Power Plant in Hempstead County, Ark., remains a commitment for Southwestern Electric Power Co.

Panel says No to coal plants

Online Hope Star - Fri Sep 26

Hope Star Editor LITTLE ROCK - A commission appointed by Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe and legislative leaders to recommend a legislative package regarding global warming voted 11-10 here Thursday to have ...

Arkansas panel tentatively endorses ban on new plants

Texarkana Gazette - Fri Sep 26

An Arkansas commission studying ways to reduce global warming tentatively endorsed a ban Thursday on new coal-fired power plants, saying a proposed $1.5 billion facility in Hempstead County shouldn't open until ...

Hold back coal plants

Herald-Leader - Fri Sep 26

By an 11-10 vote, the Governor's Commission on Global Warming recommended Thursday that no new coal-fired power plants be built in Arkansas until at least 2020, when new technology could reduce carbon ...