Year: 2020

As of Monday afternoon, Arkansas had 9,740 confirmed cases of COVID-19.  There have been 6,630 recoveries and 155 deaths.  There are 2,955 active cases. Hempstead County has 30 confirmed cases, 17 recoveries, and 1 death.  […]

HOPE — Hope and Hempstead County have lost population since 2000, while the school-age portion of both populations has remained at more than a quarter of the total population. What that decline reveals for Hope, […]

Bobcat Clinic Nurse Practitioner Kristin Price prepares to swab a patient during the COVID-19 mass testing offered for Hope Public Schools personnel June 4. Clinic Director Gretchen Carlton said 80 people participated in the testing […]

LITTLE ROCK, ARK – June 4, 2020 – Families in Hempstead and Howard counties have a new opportunity to get help for their younger family members. AFMC, with funding from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), is […]

As of Sunday afternoon, Arkansas had 9,246 confirmed cases of COVID-19.  There have been 6,424 recoveries and 154 deaths.  There are 2,848 active cases. Hempstead County has 29 confirmed cases, 15 recoveries, and 1 death.  […]

Hope police are apparently investigating a shooting that reportedly wounded five people early Sunday.  Most of the victims were reportly in their late teens.  The injured were taken to UAMS in Little Rock, Baptist Health […]