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- Rain forecast to leave state by afternoon today
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:03 a.m. Rain forecast to leave state by afternoon today LITTLE ROCK - The rain that drenched much of the state Monday should clear out by this afternoon, leaving behind dry, cool ...
- Helping to Heat Your Home
Right now our budgets are tight, even when it comes down to paying the necessary utilities.
- Randolph County pair starts 3 businesses in a year
All John Rhoades wanted to do when he moved from Florida to Randolph County last December was raise tomatoes.
- Sunday Night Wreck Kills 2 in Pocahontas
Two men are dead after crashing a green Ford Taurus into the Mansker Creek Bridge on Highway 115 on the edge of Pocahontas.
- Blevins receives honors at NAHRO meeting
Juanita Blevins of Manila was surprised to be recognized at the Oct. 23 National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials held in Pocahontas.
- Izard falls to Pocahontas
The Izard County Cougars fell 59-30 to the Pocahontas Redskins Tuesday night at Cougar Country.
- Viewpoints
I am more comfortable helping to supply news coverage for local happenings than helping put them on.
- Viewpoints
Brice Denton Bullard , nine weeks, is the son of Jason and Rebecca Bullard of Hoxie.
- Race for the Cure: United along the river
The teeming mass of participants in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure gathers on Broadway in downtown Little Rock.
- History from a personal perspective
History from a personal perspective CHSW students present glimpses of the past By JESSICA BAUER Although the students of Conway High School are always able to jump into the events and eras of the past during ...
- Arkansas Rural Museum Features Local Wonders
There was a fire in the skies over Randolph County in 1859. A thousand-pound meteor, the largest ever found in Arkansas, dropped from the heavens.
- Thousand-Pound Meteor, Other Wonders Displayed in Pocahontas
There was a fire in the skies over Randolph County in 1859. A thousand-pound meteor, the largest ever found in Arkansas, dropped from the heavens.
- Arkansas rural museum features local wonders
A thousand-pound meteor, the largest ever to be found in Arkansas, dropped from the heavens into an embankment near a channel between a small lake and the Black River.
- Student handbook
You can sleep as late as you want. You can go wherever you want to go. You can have friends over at all hours of the day.
- Proposed Crime Lab In Pocahontas Now Storage Space
A wing at the Black River Technical College's police academy once planned to become a satellite testing facility for the state Crime Laboratory now acts only as extra storage space for the school.
- A garage full of cars
Ron Hogan has a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner, a 1963 T-Bird, a 1967 GTO and hundreds of other classic cars in his garage at OK Used Cars in Trumann.
- Travelin'Arkansas: Events Taking Place in August
The 83rd annual Randolph County Fair and Livestock Show will be held at the fairgrounds in Pocahontas on Aug.
- Tangled up in Bob
On Tuesday, Bob Dylan returns to Arkansas to play the Riverfest Amphitheater. It's his first show in Little Rock since he and Willie Nelson played a sweaty, jubilant show at Ray Winder Field in 2005 .
- News Break
Good lady ladies and zestlemen! There's nothing quite like Monday prostitution fuckery to set the tone of the entire week.
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City DescriptionPocahontas is a city in Randolph County, Arkansas, United States, along the Black River. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 6,765. The city is the county seat of Randolph County.
Pocahontas has a number of historic buildings, including:
Pocahontas is the home of Black River Technical College.
In How Few Remain, an alternative history novel by Harry Turtledove, the town is mentioned as the only Confederate town taken by the US during the Second Mexican War.
Pocahontas is located at 36°15′49″N 90°58′24″W / 36.26361, -90.97333 (36.263560, -90.973349).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.6 square miles (19.6 km²), of which, 7.3 square miles (19.0 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it (2.78%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,518 people, 2,693 households, and 1,742 families residing in the city. The population density was 886.6 people per square mile (342.4/km²). There were 2,924 housing units at an average density of 397.7/sq mi (153.6/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 97.27% Caucasian, 1.10% Black or African American, 0.44% Native American, 0.08% Asian, 0.20% from ... Read MoreCity Contained By:Timezones:Size:
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