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The bid opening for Washington County's planned $20 million jail expansion has been delayed after the county courthouse was closed Wednesday due to a winter storm.
Thousands of homes and businesses in Benton and Washington counties were still without power Wednesday afternoon after a heavy, wet snow fell overnight.
Washington County officials are proceeding with plans to use federal covid-relief money on a jail project even as opponents of the jail expansion are gathering signatures to stop the project through a public vote in November 2024.
Washington County has chosen to retain Karas Correctional Health as the medical services provider for the county's Detention Center for 2023 with the $2.2 million cost of the contract nearly doubling what the county paid the company in 2022.
WEST FORK -- The Arkansas State Police are investigating the death of a West Fork man while he was being taken into police custody Thursday.