By a 7-to-6 vote, the Jefferson County Quorum Court on Tuesday agreed to extend a lease that will pave the way for the development of a new hospital in White Hall.
U.S. Sen. John Boozman traveled from the northwest corner of Arkansas, where he held roundtable discussions with business leaders about inflation, high energy costs and other economic hardships, to visit leaders of a Pine Bluff-area bank establishing a new three-story headquarters just off Interstate 530.