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Entergy Arkansas has announced that it will be disconnecting power to the Dumas area for several hours on Saturday. Entergy officials state that they will disconnect power to the Dumas area from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. on Saturday to install a bypass switch that will allow electricity to flow from other sources in case [...]

According to officials with the Chicot County Sheriff’s Office, a Monticello man drowned this morning while fishing on Lake Chicot. According to sources inside the Sheriff’s Department at approximately 8:30 a.m. Charles F. Davis, age 80, of Monticello was fishing in a small boat when winds from an inbound thunderstorm capsized the boat. Witnesses saw [...]

The University of Arkansas at Monticello employee, Paul Ruston Fong, arrested Tuesday by the Drew County Sheriff’s office has been charged with aggravated assault and terroristic threatening. Fong, 31, was charged with aggravated assault for spitting on officers while being detained at Drew Memorial Hospital. He has also been charged with terroristic threatening. He allegedly [...]

A member of the grounds staff at the University of Arkansas at Monticello has been taken into custody after an incident that occured on campus yesterday. According to Jim Brewer, Director of Media Relations at UAM, a member of the staff identified as Paul Fong became disoriented for unknown reasons yesterday while working on the [...]

One Monticello resident is dead, and two others are injured after a one-vehicle accident in Drew County yesterday.
According to a report by the Arkansas State Police the accident occurred at 12:48 p.m. on Midway Route in Drew County. The report states that a 1999 Mercury Sable driven by Don Simpson, age 18, of Monticello was [...]