WASHINGTON With job losses mounting and lawmakers preparing to funnel money to Detroit automakers, a top House Democrat said Monday that a new government effort to help borrowers avoid foreclosure will have to wait until after President-elect Barack Obama takes office.

Members of the Toad Suck Continuum of Care on Tuesday discussed the outcome of its 2009 homeless count held in late January.

... federal funding earmarked for a factory farm in northwestern Missouri: Why is it coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development? But Missouri Sen. Kit Bond and the company involved, Premium Standard Farms, defend the spending ...

The Conway City Council approved seven requests from local public service organizations for 2008 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding at Tuesday's regular meeting.

Independent Living Services celebrated the completion of a project four years in the making on Tuesday with the dedication of Florentz Estates.

Conway's very own Megan Hilburn volunteered her time to assist with relief efforts this spring in several north Arkansas communities ravaged by the March tornadoes and storms. Hillburn is a freshman biology major at Harding University in Searcy.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Oklahomans and victims' relatives paused Saturday at the Oklahoma City National Memorial for a simple, poignant ceremony to remember the 168 people killed 13 years ago in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

... energize shoppers. "We're beginning to see signs that the stimulus may be working," Bush said at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. - Advertisement - But analysts believe consumers still are anxious, and a weakening job market ...

Bakeries of Conway planned to raise the price of bread in July, following a hike in the price of flour. The five-cent loaf would be discontinued and the smallest size would retail for eight cents. The next size was to be 10 cents. The sizes of the newly priced loaves had not been determined.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July.