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May 12, 2015
An unstable storm system that brewed over the weekend with warm, moist air spawned at least one tornado that killed two people in southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening and dumped up to 8 inches of rain over much of the state, washing out roads and flooding creeks and rivers.

May 12, 2015
An unstable storm system that brewed over the weekend with warm, moist air spawned at least one tornado that killed two people in southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening and dumped up to 8 inches of rain over much of the state, washing out roads and flooding creeks and rivers.

May 12, 2015
An unstable storm system that brewed over the weekend with warm, moist air spawned at least one tornado that killed two people in southwest Arkansas on Sunday evening and dumped up to 8 inches of rain over much of the state, washing out roads and flooding creeks and rivers.

May 11, 2015
Officials say Michael and Melissa Mooneyhan died when a tornado hit their mobile home. Authorities believe the husband and wife saved their daughter.

May 11, 2015

For the first time in more than 20 years, there was a celebration Monday of major construction activity at the Port of Pine Bluff and city officials couldn't have been any happier.

Southwind Milling, which is in the final stages of construction of a new rice mill, held a topping-out ceremony as the last beam, bearing flags and a Christmas Tree, was placed at the top of the structure, and according to a construction manager, the ceremony means "everything is downhill from here."


May 11, 2015
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson issued a proclamation Monday (May 11) declaring ten counties disaster areas following a weekend of severe weather that included flooding and tornadoes.

May 11, 2015
Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-Hot Springs) issued the following statement regarding deaths and damage from storms that impacted the Fourth District city of Nashville on Sunday evening (May 10).

May 10, 2015
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., joined World War II veteran Floyd Brantley of Arkadelphia at a WWII victory gala Thursday at the Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum. The program featured was "A Conversation with Heroes," with firsthand accounts of the conflict. Ninety-year-old former President George H.W. Bush, a pilot who fought the Japanese, was the keynote speaker.

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DAY OF PRAYER
May 7, 2015
Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-Hot Springs) issued the following statement commemorating Thursday’s National Day of Prayer designation.

May 7, 2015
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-District 4, presents an award to Lakeside High School student, Maurice Bradford, on Tuesday during a reception honoring the winners of the Congressional Art Competition at the Hot Springs Convention Center. Bradford tied for third place for his work "Together as One," in which he used charcoal as his medium.