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1 week ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
Crossett’s former police chief’s complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges he was subject to wrongful termination, retaliation and sexual harassment.
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1 week ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
The Crossett Police Department is investigating and has contacted both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Arkansas Attorney General’s office after someone reportedly stole $39,000 from the city by posing as a legitimate ambulance dealer. CPD Investigator Matt Brooks’ incident report said that the investigation began May 22, and that the fraud hinged around the purchase of a used ambulance.
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1 week ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
A social media post seeking to identify an alleged shoplifter in Crossett resulted not only in the identification of a suspect for the incident, but allegations connecting her to a second shoplifting incident that pushed the total reported stolen merchandise to nearly $1,000. Two reports at the Crossett Police Department by Officer Kali Grier discuss the incident that led to Roshunda McDaniel of Louisiana being identified as the suspect.
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1 week ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
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2 weeks ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
A Crossett man has been arrested after he allegedly forced his way into a woman’s home and attacked her. Crossett police arrested Elvin Lamar Thurman, 79, on charges of stalking in the first degree, sexual assault in the second degree and battery in the third degree on May 17. Crossett Police Lt. Shaq Thompson said the alleged incident in the Lakewood neighborhood happened on May 16, and followed what the victim characterized as years of harassment.
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2 weeks ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
Crossett residents both welcomed and placed the city’s new police chief under scrutiny at the city council’s May 19 meeting. In introducing new Police Chief Clint Bradberry, Mayor Crystal Marshall told the audience in the packed meeting room at the Crossett Public Library that Bradberry was a U.S. Navy veteran and had spent 17 years in law enforcement, including as a patrol officer, an investigator, a sergeant, assistant police chief and a special agent on a regional drug task force.
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3 weeks ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
The Hamburg School District is developing plans on how to comply with new state laws that ban student cell phones on school campuses. HSD Safety Director Chris Hammond told the school board at its May 12 meeting that district personnel are meeting with or talking to representatives of other schools who piloted no cell phone programs this year to find out what they did and how they enforced it.
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3 weeks ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
The Arkansas Department of Transportation has 50 miles of planned highway projects in Ashley County that have been let for bid. That was part of the message that ArDOT Director Jared Wiley brought to the Crossett Rotary Club when he spoke to its members on May 8, telling them that the various projects that have been let for bid have been programmed through 2028.
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3 weeks ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
Hamburg’s proposed amendment to the one-cent sales tax that pays for its ambulance service passed with 67 percent of those who cast a ballot indicating they favored a change allowing wider use of the funds the tax generates. In unofficial results, 59 voters were in favor of the amendment and 26 were against. Hamburg had 1,150 registered voters who could cast ballots on Election Day, meaning that less than 8 percent of eligible voters participated in the election.
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3 weeks ago | 
ashleynewsobserver.com | Vershal Hogan
The Ashley County Quorum Court voted Tuesday, May 13, to signal its intent to issue Act 9 industrial bonds in support of the construction of a 640-acre solar farm and sheep-grazing project near Fountain Hill. The vote came after the justices heard a presentation from Telly Manos, a senior development manager with Urban Grid.
