Highway 49 stretches toward the horizon, a ribbon of asphalt connecting Rector to the wider world while keeping its small-town heart intact. Photo credit: roadandrailpictures ... Read More

On Feb. 24, Jonesboro police responded to a disturbance call on Highway 49 between Jonesboro and Paragould ... a 10-month-old baby and drove away. Arkansas State Trooper Nash Thomas, who was ... Read More

Traffic has slowed down on U.S. Highway 49 in Greene County due to a car versus train crash. The Arkansas Department of Transportation said the crash happened at 3:33 p.m. near Depriest Road / Greene ... Read More

Crews were at the scene of a two-vehicle crash with entrapment in Craighead County.According to Chief Deputy Justin Rolland, the crash was reported around 5 p.m. at the intersection of Highway 49 and ... Read More

The report says that the vehicle began to rotate after the collision before coming to rest on its top. The driver, Brock Pounders, was killed in the crash. Read More

A Rogers woman was killed Friday after a fiery car crash in Benton County. Angela Williams, 43, was driving south on I-49 in Bentonville when she departed the roadway, struck a highway sign, and ... Read More

CRAIGHEAD COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - Multiple crews are responding to a rollover crash. According to the Brookland Police Department, they received a call at 2:41 p.m. to a rollover and entrapment on US 49 ... Read More

Northbound lanes of Highway 49 in north Auburn are back open after a fatal three-car accident forced its closure this morning. An Aryan Brotherhood prison gang member confessed to murder at a ... Read More

Highway crashes kill 2 people in state. ... of Rector, died in a fiery crash around 12:30 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 49 near the intersection with Arkansas 90 in rural Clay County. Read More

The Arkansas State Highway Commission approved a bid to widen U.S. Highway 49 between County Road 845 and State Highway 135. The AHC awarded the $8,987,341 contract to Asphalt Producers of Jonesboro. Read More

PARAGOULD, AR (KAIT) - A lot of road work is going on in Greene County right now. The Highway Department is repaving Hwy. 49. On Wednesday, crews were paving the northbound outside lane of Hwy 49 near ... Read More