Chicot County, AR

An Oak Grove, AR woman died about 2:55 p.m. Thursday in a wreck on Arkansas 159 in rural Chicot County south of Eudora. According to a preliminary Arkansas State Police report, Lakisha S. Phillips, 33, was driving a 2008 model Chevrolet Impala north on the highway, south of the Old Kilbourne Road. While attempting to negotiate a right-hand curve, the vehicle traveling into the southbound lane and then back into the northbound lane while rotating in a clockwise direction. The car exited the roadway and overturned, coming to final rest facing in a southerly direction on its roof.

CHICOT COUNTY, Ark. – The family of a woman killed in a bus crash near Dermott earlier this year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Earlier this week, 65-year-old Regina Jackson’s family filed suit in Chicot County Circuit Court. The collision occurred between a C.B. King Memorial School...

Little Rock, AR – Throughout July, Chris Jones will continue on his quest to walk a mile with Arkansans in each of the state’s 75 counties.. Jones’ Walk A Mile In Your Shoes tour travels next to Chicot, Crittenden and Craighead Counties. The tour encourages neighbors to walk side-by-side engaged in compassionate and thoughtful discussion about current events and the issues impacting Arkansans. During the tour, Jones will walk a mile alongside fellow Arkansans, sharing his vision to unlock the promise of Arkansas, while listening to learn about the issues they face.

BAYOU CHICOT – Graveside services were held with full military honors on Saturday, June 18, 2022, at 1 p.m. at the Vandenburg Cemetery in Bayou Chicot for Stephen Lynn VonLanken, who was born December 7, 1967, in Tuscola, Illinois, and was a resident of St. Landry. He peacefully passed away on June 15, 2022, surrounded by his loving family. Stephen proudly served his country in the United States…

A candlelight vigil in Southeast Arkansas Sunday evening honored the lives of five people killed in a horrific crash.

Those grieving for the victims killed in a horrific bus crash will gather Sunday evening to honor their lives.

Five people were killed and five others injured after a large truck collided with a van belonging to a school serving disabled adults in southeast Arkansas, authorities said. The crash happened Monday afternoon on U.S. 65 when the 15-passenger van failed to yield when crossing U.S. 65 in rural Chicot County and collided with a truck hauling cooking oil, Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said Tuesday.

Two days after 5 were killed in a Chicot County bus crash, the families of the victims are still coming to terms with their loss and are remembering their loved ones gone too soon.

The crash happened when the 15-passenger van failed to yield and collided with a truck hauling cooking oil, Arkansas State Police said.

DERMOTT, Ark. (KARK/KAIT) – Two days after five people were killed in a Chicot County bus crash, the victims’ families are still coming to terms with their loss. At the site of the accident just west of Dermott, a memorial has been set up, featuring crosses with flowers in a variety of colors, along with a marker. That marker bears the name of the victims killed when their C.B. King school bus crashed into an 18-wheeler crossing U.S. Highway 65.

5 people were killed in a Monday crash after a van serving a school for adults for disabilities in Arkansas didn't yield to oncoming traffic, police said.