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Arkansas Online
April 27, 2018
Highly recruited sophmore cornerback RJ Mickens visited Arkansas over the weekend and he discussed his thoughts about the trip on Recruiting Thursday. Mickens, 6-1, 180 pounds, 4.53 seconds in the 40-yard dash, of Southlake Carroll High School has 25 scholarship offers from schools such asÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 27, 2018
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen concluded an almost two-hour hearing by saying that the Republicans had proved that Morgan Lee Wiles had actually exceeded the yearlong residency standard set by the Arkansas Constitution. "The evidence shows Mr. Wiles has resided [in the district] sinceÃâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
April 27, 2018
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The ninth-seeded Arkansas men's tennis team's rally fell short Thursday night, as the Razorbacks lost 4-2 to the eighth-seeded and 18th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs in its first match of the SEC Tournament. Georgia got out to an early 1-0 lead, as the Bulldogs won courts two and three inÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 27, 2018
The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions Thursday. The court's ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions, orders and submissions, can be found on the Internet at courts.state.ar.us. PROCEEDINGS OF APRILÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 27, 2018
Arkansas' new voter-identification law is on hold for now, thanks to a judge's ruling Thursday evening. Since August, voters have been required to show government-approved photo identification to poll workers to ensure their ballots are counted. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray on Thursday ruledÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 27, 2018
Enrollees of an Arkansas health care plan will soon need an email account and computer access to keep their coverage. April 26, 2018, at 5:29 p.m. ... Some lawmakers expressed concern Wednesday about the Arkansas Works requirement, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. The requirement will apply to residentsÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 26, 2018
A close look at notable arrests and crimes from around the state + the latest mug shots and crime map updates. [EXAMPLE]. Email: Yes. Subscribe. Latest crime stories. Little Rock man who expressed interest in sex with children gets 10 years in prison Ãâ÷ Burglar breaks wall of North Little Rock barbecueÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 26, 2018
One person was killed and another injured when a Dodge vehicle traveling the wrong way on Interstate 40 in Conway crashed into a Jeep and then a truck, authorities said. It happened about 1:40 a.m. near the Oak Street exit, which is mile marker 127. According to an Arkansas State Police report,Ãâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
April 26, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – No. 5 Arkansas is set to host one of the largest meets of the weekend – The National Relay Championships Apr. 27-28 at John McDonnell Field. The meet includes 16 Power Five programs and will be highlighted by a relay only format Saturday night that will be broadcast LIVE onÃâà...
SECcountry.com
April 26, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It's back. Time for another season with an installment of bracketology. In this series, our goal is to project where the Arkansas baseball team will be playing in the NCAA Tournament. More specifically, where and who Arkansas will be playing in the NCAA Tournament. The projectionsÃâà...
KATV
April 26, 2018
ORIGINAL (4/26/18 11:25 A.M.)Arkansas State Police is assisting the Woodruff County Sheriff's Department to find a man who escaped the jail. Authorities say Billy Parrish, 33, was arrested by deputies on a 2016 warrant for two counts of failure to appear, no seat belt, and carrying a prohibited weapon.
Sacramento Bee
April 26, 2018
An Arkansas judge on Thursday blocked a voter ID law that's nearly identical to a measure the state's highest court found unconstitutional about four years ago. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray granted a preliminary injunction barring the law from being enforced and finding the measureÃâà...
NPR
April 26, 2018
The first version of a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol lasted less than 24 hours before it was destroyed by a car last summer. Now the state has installed a new monument — and it's already facing potential legal challenges. The new Ten Commandments monument is protected onÃâà...
ABC News
April 14, 2018
In Arkansas, a tornado ripped through the tiny Ozark Mountain town of Mountainburg on Friday, injuring at least four people and causing widespread damage. Video showed uprooted trees, overturned cars, damaged buildings and downed power lines. Powerful winds also damaged several buildings at theÃâà...
KATV
April 14, 2018
As the Natural State prepares for severe weather, central Arkansas teams with the Department of Emergency Management want residents to know where their county storm shelters are located. ADEM says if you are unsure of where your shelters are, you can call your local county office of emergency management to get theÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
April 14, 2018
A potent spring storm system that's expected to persist through the weekend raked across the Midwest, spawning at least one tornado in Arkansas as blizzard conditions blanketed much of the Northern Plains. A tornado ripped through the tiny Ozark Mountain town of Mountainburg, Arkansas, injuring atÃâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
April 14, 2018
Complete Results (PDF). FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Competing in less than ideal weather, the women's track & field team overcame the sub-50 degree weather to use the final day of the John McDonnell Invitational to post multiple season-best marks. “I think mother nature held us hostage with inclementÃâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
April 14, 2018
ATHENS, Ga. – University of Arkansas junior Dylan Kim tied her career-best with a final round 68 leading the No. 3 Razorbacks to a runner-up finish at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday. Kim's tie for ninth place overall is her fifth top-10 finish as a Razorback and it is the firstÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 14, 2018
A tornado ripped through a tiny town in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas on Friday, injuring at least four people. April 13, 2018, at ... The twister struck Mountainburg, Arkansas, around 4 p.m. Friday as a line of severe thunderstorms rumbled across eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas.
U.S. News & World Report
April 14, 2018
By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Weeks after he effectively halted the launch of Arkansas' medical marijuana program, a judge is urging officials to find a way to resume evaluating applications. That's going to be easier said than done. Pulaski County Circuit JudgeÃâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
April 13, 2018
Larry Donald recorded a season-best time in the 110-meter hurdles with his time of 13.92 (+6.5) that was good for fifth-place. The final running event on the track Friday afternoon featured a slew of Razorbacks between the lanes led by All-American Kenzo Cotton. Cotton led a group of four for Arkansas inÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 3, 2018
A 22-year-old man was killed over the weekend in a two-vehicle wreck on an Arkansas road, police said. A Pine Bluff police officer discovered a vehicle collision Sunday at the intersection of Harding Avenue and Olive Street, according to a release from the city's Police Department. Witnesses at the sceneÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 3, 2018
McKim previously worked as a finance director for the Republican Party of Arkansas and as a city clerk in Bryant. McKim, who attended the teleconference meeting as the deputy director, told the commissioners the opening for the director job had been advertised on the state's government jobs website forÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An Arkansas judge has ruled that six farmers in the state this summer can spray a weed killer made by Monsanto Co and BASF SE that ... Allowing even six Arkansas farmers to spray dicamba during the growing season risks crop damage, said Terry Fuller, a state plant board member.
U.S. News & World Report
April 3, 2018
A new study has been conducted on how Arkansas is readying preschool-age children for success in school. April 2 ... The study was commissioned by the Walton Family Foundation and will research the features of the Arkansas Better Chance program that best prepare children for kindergarten success.
Arkansas Online
April 3, 2018
Arkansas State University has filed its response to the University of Miami's motion to dismiss a lawsuit the Jonesboro school filed in state court over a canceled football game. In its Monday afternoon filing, ASU said Miami's motion should be denied because Craighead County is the "proper jurisdiction andÃâà...
agprofessional.com
April 3, 2018
These include Lake Village Seed & Tire Co., Inc. with its ag retail location in Lake Village, Ark. and a fertilizer house in Eudora, Ark. Lake Village Seed has been serving local growers throughout southeast Arkansas for more than 30 years. With long-time customers and employees with agronomicalÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 3, 2018
Arkansas father Brad Allen still missing more than eight months after vanishing. by Bianca Hillier. Share; Share Ãâ÷ Tweet Ãâ÷ Comment Ãâ÷ Email; Print. When you live on the same plot of land as several members of your family -- as does the Allen family in Fountain Hill, Arkansas –- you tend to see them a lot.
Arkansas Online
April 3, 2018
A central Arkansas school district is investigating allegations of hazing on a high school sports team, officials said. According to a Monday news release, Arkansas State Police and the Saline County sheriff's office are assisting with the investigation that involves the Bauxite High School baseball team.
Insurance Journal
April 3, 2018
Arkansas' attorney general has joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their risks. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a lawsuit in state court in Little Rock accusingÃâà...
Arkansas Times (blog)
April 3, 2018
The Arkansas Department of Human Sevices announced Monday it has launched the website on which Arkansas Works beneficiaries must prove ... Arkansas Works, the state's version of Medicaid expansion, provides health insurance to around 280,000 low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 64.
Arkansas Razorbacks
March 31, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 1 Arkansas women's track and field team continued action with the sprint crew in Austin for the Texas Relays, while the distance squad got to work at the Stanford Invitational on Friday. The day began with Arkansas' 4-x-100 meter relay crew advancing to tomorrow's finals. ComingÃâà...
KTAL
March 31, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE, AR - An Arkansas man is facing charges of video voyeurism. According to Fayetteville, AR Police, Jeremy Godfirnon, 43, was in the process of performing maintenance work at 3120 N. College. An employee said Godfirnon was in the process of installing light fixtures and switches and saidÃâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
March 31, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas – The No. 11 Arkansas men's track and field team set multiple PRs as it day two concluded at the Texas Relays in Austin, Texas, while the distance and field began work at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto Calif. Senior Kemar Mowatt was the lone event winner in Texas, taking first in theÃâà...
KUAR
March 31, 2018
Arkansas is suing three drug makers claiming they're at fault for the opioid crisis that has caused a drastic increase in the number of overdose deaths in Arkansas. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Thursday that the lawsuit had been filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court against Purdue Pharma,Ãâà...
KATV
March 31, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Concealed handguns won't be allowed at dozens of Arkansas college sports facilities, including the football stadiums for the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Arkansas State Red Wolves, after state police approved plans to exempt them from a law expanding where guns can be carried.
THV11.com KTHV
March 31, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas is asking the state's Supreme Court to compel a judge to decide whether to block enforcement of a voter ID law. In a motion filed Thursday, Secretary of State Mark Martin asked the court to require Pulaski County Circuit Judge Alice Gray to rule whether she'll grant aÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 31, 2018
... date on the new charge is scheduled today in Garland County District Court. In Arkansas, Level 3 sex offenders are repeat sex offenders and/or persons with strong anti-social, violent or predatory personalities, according to the state's "Sex Offender Assessment Committee Guidelines and Procedures."Ãâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
March 31, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas men's tennis team looks to open the final month of the regular season with a tripleheader Sunday, as the Razorbacks face Southeastern Conference foe Alabama at 1 p.m., before taking on Nebraska-Omaha in a doubleheader. Arkansas (9-11, 2-6 SEC) has had aÃâà...
KATV
March 14, 2018
A motorcyclist died in a three-vehicle crash that closed a central Arkansas highway Wednesday morning, state police reported. Kevin Gross, 46, was driving a 2002 BMW motorcycle south on U.S. 67 near Redmond Road in Jacksonville when he was struck by another southbound vehicle about 7:29 a.m., according to theÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 14, 2018
A driver died Tuesday after his vehicle veered across the centerline of an Arkansas highway and collided with a truck, authorities reported. It happened about 1:15 p.m. on Arkansas 118 west of Arkansas 77 in Mississippi County. Durrell Holloway, 30, of Marked Tree was driving a 2005 Chevy east on theÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 14, 2018
Authorities have identified the two victims of a fiery crash in Northwest Arkansas last week. In a statement, the Lowell Police Department said the driver, Demarkeo Clark, 24, and a passenger, Terry Christian, 32, were killed in the wreck. It happened around 8:35 a.m. Thursday on U.S. 71B in Lowell.
Arkansas Online
March 14, 2018
BENTONVILLE — A former Arkansas school bus driver was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday for sexually assaulting a student, the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Joshua Edward Bell, 27, of Rogers pleaded guilty Wednesday to sexual assault. The plea was under an agreementÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 14, 2018
City and county officials improperly gave publicity to the records of a juvenile investigation performed by the juvenile division of the Springdale Police Department, acting in cooperation with the Arkansas State Police, according to the lawsuit. The release placed Duggar before the public in the light of a sexÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 14, 2018
An Arkansas judge has temporarily blocked the state from issuing licenses to five companies to grow medical marijuana in response to complaints about the ... LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the state from awarding its first licenses for companies to growÃâà...
SECcountry.com
March 11, 2018
Chavis (6-foot-1, 185 pounds) attends Rison High School and is the first in-state recruit to commit to the 2019 class. He plays wide receiver and defensive back at Rison, and Arkansas views him as a defensive back. He's known for his speed, with a 40-yard dash time around 4.40 seconds. He is rated as aÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 11, 2018
The Arkansas Senate approved the budget for Medicaid and the expansion program, which uses Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents, a day after federal officials approved the work requirement. Vacancies in the 35-member chamber had created uncertainty about whetherÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 11, 2018
A 66-year-old from Romance was killed in a three-vehicle crash Friday afternoon in Lonoke County, authorities said. According to a preliminary report from Arkansas State Police, a 1995 Peterbilt truck that was northbound on Arkansas 5 attempted to turn west onto Arkansas 315 around 3 p.m., crossing inÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 11, 2018
Clarksville Superintendent David Hopkins is on the Arkansas School Safety Commission, created by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Hopkins, along with other educators and law enforcement officials, will evaluate and recommend school-security policies and campus designs. The commission's first report is due JulyÃâà...
Arkansas Razorbacks
March 11, 2018
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Arkansas men's track and field team closed out it indoor season as the 13th-best program in the nation, scoring 16 points on the final day of the 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station. Junior Cameron Griffith was Arkansas' best performer of the weekend,Ãâà...
