Stories by Adam Wallworth

  • To protect and to sell?

    In Clarksville and Fort Smith last year, two law enforcement agencies sold 261 firearms and netted more than $35,000.

  • Museum deal with Fisk sent to lower court

    A $30 million deal between Nashville’s Fisk University and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to share in an art collection is heading back to Davidson Cou…

  • Families of military take stage

    Performers like being talked to while on stage, as long as it’s done the correct way, Patricia Relph told participants of the Walton Arts Center Family First N…

  • State police investigating security, gifts

    Arkansas State Police commanders are reviewing the long-standing practice of providing security to the Razorbacks football team after questions were raised abo…

  • County service contract granted

    The Eureka Springs Fire Department was awarded a new five-year contract for ambulance service by the Western Carroll County Ambulance District, which rejected …

  • Cells latest addition to jail’s construction

    Newton County Sheriff Keith Slape didn’t try to contain his excitement as he watched his new jail cells arrive in the parking lot on a flatbed tractor-trailer.

  • Lawsuit filed on court’s funding

    A lawsuit filed against Madison County District Judge Orville Clift is the next step in the debate over how to fund the district court, Huntsville Mayor Kevin …

  • State police auditing what troopers get at UA job

    The Arkansas State Police is conducting an audit of gratuities troopers receive for providing security for the Arkansas Razorbacks and former Coach Bobby Petri…

  • No bid to edit out 2nd rider, captain says

    Razorbacks head football coach Bobby Petrino asked a state police captain April 2 if he would be required to identify Petrino’s passenger in a motorcycle accid…

  • Passer-by says Petrino vetoed 911-call offer

    University of Arkansas football Coach Bobby Petrino and his female passenger, a UA employee, asked a man who passed their motorcycle accident Sunday not to cal…

  • Newton County signs in sight

    Blue road signs cropping up near Compton show Newton County is closer to establishing physical addresses for its residents, but officials don’t know exactly wh…

  • Veterans group hopes to charter post on campus

    The creation of the nation’s first Veterans of Foreign Wars post on a university campus hinges on its organizers’ ability to create an auxiliary group to meet …

  • Dog handlers offer special kind of help

    Anyone who’s been lost in Johnson County in the past few years, whether on purpose or by accident, has likely met bloodhound Finnagus Sage and his handler, Sue…

  • Counties seek federal funds for forest land

    Newton County Sheriff Keith Slape is excited by the prospect of Congress restoring $38,460 he was counting on to run his office but thought lost due to a cleri…

  • City gears up for annex push

    Sumner Brashears for years never wanted to bother with the process of having his home annexed into the Huntsville city limits, but he was among the first to si…

  • Judge steps in county, city tiff

    Madison County District Judge Orville Clift doesn’t want a disagreement between the county and Huntsville to reduce his court’s budget, so he ordered its expen…

  • Theater district hit in Branson

    Michael Haygood was helping 3 Redneck Tenors hone their act late Tuesday when tornado warnings shooed the performers from Branson’s New Americana Theater just …

  • Resident: Bottle sales beneficial

    A Kingston man is collecting signatures for a ballot issue regarding whether to allow packaged alcohol sales in Madison County.

  • 1 last manhole fulfills sewer fix at Buffalo River

    Operators of a sewer system that once threatened the Buffalo National River have nearly fulfilled requirements of an agreement with the state environmental age…

  • Drive-By Shooting Reported

    Police are investigating a drive-by shooting reported on Braxton Drive on Friday night.

  • FORECLOSED RENTALS: New U.S. law can aid tenants

    Calvin Stover assumed he would have a place to live as long as he paid rent, but that all changed Dec. 13 when a Benton County deputy forced him out of his nor…

  • Frenchman ends Ozark castle project, seeks a buyer

    The Ozark Medieval Fortress, a 13th-century-style French castle being constructed by hand in Boone County, has closed indefinitely, founder Michel Guyot said F…

  • Panel: Laxity, policy worsen immigration

    Differing sides of the illegal immigration debate came together on a panel Saturday in Fayetteville to discuss immigration policy and reform.

  • Farmers awaiting changes

    Farmers in Johnson and Logan counties are waiting to see how they will be affected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s plans to consolidate their Farm Serv…

  • Guardsmen face challenges

    Staff Sgt. Robert Sabatini spent the past year in Afghanistan with an Arkansas Army National Guard agriculture development team.

  • Suspect competent for trial, judge rules

    A judge Thursday found that Richard “Dickie” Kidd is competent to stand trial on a capital murder charge stemming from his wife’s slaying nearly three years ag…

  • Synthetic ‘pot’ seized at 2 stores

    Sebastian County prosecutors said they are deciding what charges to file after police raided two Fort Smith convenience stores and seized synthetic marijuana.

  • Billing hubs face changes with mergers

    Utility providers and their direct mail counterparts in Northwest Arkansas are keeping an eye on the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to shutter 252 mail processing …

  • Locals discuss Postal Service consolidation

    The U.S. Postal Service is studying the viability of cutting more than half of its 487 area mail processing centers nationwide by 2013, including the Fayettevi…

  • Christmas good for hit tree farm

    Families searched for the perfect Christmas tree Saturday at a Franklin County tree farm that lost part of its crop in a deadly May tornado.

  • State police faces retirement wave

    The Arkansas State Police is bracing for a wave of “delayed” retirements that will crest mid-2012.

  • Still no trial date set for accused killer

    Richard “Dickie” Kidd has a new attorney but still no answer as to whether his nearly three-year-old capital murder case will go to trial.

  • Teacher charged in video spying

    A Lavaca Middle School teacher, whose teaching license was revoked by the state Department of Education, was charged with a felony after police said he set up …

  • Firm owes $7 million in ’08 fatal rig crash

    A U.S. District Court jury in Harrison has ordered a Kentucky trucking company to pay $7 million in damages for sending an unqualified driver on a dangerous tr…

  • Student citizen concern is closed

    Federal immigration authorities are no longer trying to deport a University of Arkansas student whose parents brought him to the United States as a child.

  • Cause of white-nose syndrome in bats confirmed

    Confirming the cause of a disease that’s killed more than a million bats in North America will help wildlife officials develop a management plan, but it won’t …

  • Murals found useful in rehabilitation

    Hidden in the mural that adorns many of the walls of the Northwest Arkansas Community Correction Center are details that offer a glimpse of the life of its re…

  • Last county to stop using postal routes

    Newton County is the last county in the state using postal routes instead of physical addresses for the purposes of mail delivery and emergency services, but t…

  • Local organization aims to aid military families

    Communicating with a military spouse who is overseas is easier than it was during the Vietnam War, but it is still hard for wives such as Rachel Lee, who is ex…

  • Police search for fake officer

    Harrison police said they are investigating two reports less than a week apart of a man with a blue light in his car stopping female motorists.

  • Coach arrested in Clarksville

    Deer High School basketball coach John Jacob Thompson was in the Johnson County jail Friday after his arrest in Clarksville by the 5th Judicial Drug Task Force.

  • PEOPLE & PLACES

    Williams Marks 98th Birthday

  • Panel tackles watershed issues

    Collaboration is more effective than regulation in watershed protection efforts, speakers said Thursday at the inaugural 4-State Watershed Academy.

  • Sentence is 11 years for hate crime crash

    Frankie Maybee was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday for a federal hate crime, but he told the judge that when he rammed a car with five Hispanic men o…

Upcoming Events