VAN BUREN A three-month-old baby s death resulted in his mother s arrest in connection with manslaughter after the State Crime Laboratory found methamphetamine in both the child s blood and in the bottle he was fed from before he died.
A prescribed burn was executed in the Ouachita National Forest. The Van Buren Police Department said high winds have been spreading smoke to other areas of Arkansas.
Police in the Michigan township of Van Buren had identified a person of interest in the 2017 killing of Egypt Covington, but by 2020, there had been no arrests.