TOP STORY >> Ward breaks ground on sewer

By JEFFREY SMITH Leader staff writer Ward broke ground Friday for a new $5.8 million Aero-Mod wastewater treatment facility. The plant is off Hwy. 367 behind the animal shelter and next to the old sewer treatment facility. Construction will begin Monday. The new wastewater plant will be built by Haren Construction of Tennessee and will be operating by August 2018. […]

TOP STORY >> Drugs from Beebe store evidence in federal bust

By RICK KRON Leader staff writer Drugs taken in a Beebe pharmacy break-in more than a year ago are evidence in one of the largest ever health-care fraud enforcement actions taken by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including Arkansas. Details of the arrests and charges were released Thursday. Among the defendants are […]

TOP STORY >> Few races in districts challenged

By JOHN HOFEIMER  Leader senior staff writer LaConda Watson and Jim Moore drew the short straws when they were elected in September 2015 to the first-ever Jacksonville North Pulaski School Board. Because the district was new, all seven members were elected to their first term, and in order to stagger the four-year terms, Watson and Moore were the two who […]

EDITORIAL >> Liar, liar — pants on fire

He’s a liar, he’s a liar — that seems to be all attorney Alex Gray can say about former Jacksonville Police Chief Geoffrey Herweg. Gray has told a judge that Herweg is a liar, asked Mayor Gary Fletcher why he hired a liar and has brought it up every time he has found an open microphone. Other than besmudging Herweg, […]