By JON GAMBRELL Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jonesboro school shooter Mitchell Johnson was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison and could remain behind bars well into his 30s. Johnson, 24, had faced a...
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) -- Officials say five students from Nettleton Junior High School in Jonesboro were taken to the hospital Thursday morning after taking an unidentified prescription drug. School officials said teachers...
JONESBORO, Ark. — A videotaped deposition of Andrew Golden, one of the two boys who killed four students and a teacher at a Jonesboro middle school in 1998, will be released only after a civil lawsuit has been tried, a judge...
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) -- Police arrested a teenager already accused of another murder in the 2007 shooting death of a Jonesboro man. Circuit Judge Lee Fergus found probable cause to charge 19 year-old Jason Jamar White with...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Jonesboro police arrested eight Arkansas State University students after a melee at an impromptu Barack Obama victory celebration near the campus. Three police officers suffered minor injuries. Police...
Wayne Cashion, a sharecropper's son who was decorated for bravery in combat in World War II and became a principal for the Pattonville School District, died Saturday (Oct. 25, 2008) of lung cancer at his home in Alpharetta, Ga....
Not all the economic news lately has been bad, especially if you live in the Jonesboro area. It was announced last week a new $100 million plant to be built there will provide 700 jobs and tap the alternative energy field to boot.