Postal layoffs worry mayor, union heads
The Harrison Customer Service Mail Processing Center again is facing the chopping block as the U.S. Postal Service considers processing all of the state’s mail…
Stories by Adam Wallworth
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Newton County to start on new jail 3 years after tax vote
A Harrison company was awarded an $840,000 contract to build a new Newton County jail Tuesday, nearly three years after voters passed a tax to build it. “It’s …
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Officers’ shooting is ruled justified
Officers were justified in using deadly force to end James Ray Palmer’s attack on the Crawford County Courthouse, Prosecuting Attorney Marc McCune said in a le…
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Officials study impact made by new code
Officials in Arkansas say they are seeing the effect of changes made to the Arkansas Criminal Code but it will take several more months before the full impact …
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Sheriff: 13 arrested on drug charges in Newton County ‘day of fun’
The Newton County sheriff ’s office arrested a dozen people on drug-related charges in a sweep that began Friday and continues to search for some who evaded la…
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County reins in medical costs
Some county jails in Arkansas are requiring inmates to chip in on medical costs as a way to save money and weed out malingering.
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Siblings receive prison terms
Two Fort Smith brothers pleaded guilty Monday to trying to kill a police officer who was trying to arrest them on suspicion of kidnapping and rape and question…
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Petitioner: Official, dad disorderly
Criminal summonses for misdemeanor disorderly conduct were issued Thursday for a Greenwood alderman and his father, accused of accosting a man circulating a pe…
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Society of jailers setting high bar
Arkansas jail administrators are working together to keep pace with the changing challenges of county lockups, including prisoner lawsuits that are an inevitab…
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Life terms given in ’10 slayings
A Boone County man began serving two life sentences Wednesday for killing a couple with a.22 caliber revolver last year.
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State Hospital backlog keeps trial on delay
The issue of competency remains unresolved for a Harrison man jailed more than two years on suspicion of capital murder.
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2 found dead in Carroll County
The Carroll County sheriff’s office is investigating the deaths of a man and woman found shot to death in a mobile home in Oak Grove.
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UA says no room for band at game
Several Razorback alumni band members were frustrated to learn this week the University of Arkansas won’t have room for them at this year’s homecoming game, th…
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Fort Smith suspect jailed in Michigan
The Memphis man accused of killing two women and an unborn fetus surrendered Thursday at the sheriff’s office in Saginaw County Mich., according to Fort Smith …
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Police: Deaths to avenge rabbit food ‘pot’
Fort Smith police said they are searching for a Memphis man they believe shot three women Monday because he’d been sold marijuana mixed with rabbit food.
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Seminar aids officers, K-9s
Officers from four agencies spent the past week taking turns getting battered and bruised by Belgian Malinois and German shepherds as part of a K-9 decoy train…
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Life in Fort Smith doesn’t slow despite weather
Pam Cravens peered out from under her rainbow patterned umbrella on Saturday while watching her granddaughter’s softball team play in heat that topped 100 degr…
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Petition process grievous
Two file boxes gathering dust in the basement of Fayetteville City Hall serve as reminders of the battle that raged in fall 2003 over a city law prohibiting sm…
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Green Forest man denied a new trial
A Green Forest man convicted of committing federal hate crimes will not be acquitted or given a new trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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Cyber unit makes 1st arrest, in porn case
An illegal alien living in Barling was the first person arrested in a child pornography case by the state attorney general’s newly created cybercrimes unit, Du…
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Petition canvasser kicked out of park
Liz Armstrong wasn’t quite sure what to think when two Fort Smith city employees kicked her out of the city’s Independence Day celebration for gathering signat…
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Agencies enlist forces to stop drug trafficking
Fayetteville Police Cpl. Kevin Carroll kicked the hood of a green Honda Accord, trying to gain access to the flaming engine compartment.
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Economy crimping July 4 travel plans
A 20-cent drop in gasoline prices in the past month came too late to spur travel over the coming holiday weekend, said a spokesman for a national travel organi…
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Residents pick up pieces, await assistance
Gwen Baker is glad to be home, even though home is a pile of rubble. She’s just not sure why she made it.
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Bomb suspect nets 2 years for firearms
A former Madison County man was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for a felony firearms charge that stemmed from an investigation into a homemade…
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Gallery marks artist’s recovery
Prints as vivid as an open window hang in a gallery borne of a near-fatal fall in the Ozark wilderness.
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Volunteers aid storm recovery of 2 communities
The national media spotlight hasn’t focused its attention on the tornado that ripped through the Etna and Denning communities in Franklin County as much as it …
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Floods force trail site to close
Lost Valley Trail is usually among the most visited places in Buffalo National River park, but it is closed until further notice because of recent flooding.
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Lead Hill man facing 5 felonies says he was shot
Boone County deputies are investigating the shooting of a Lead Hill man who believes his attacker was the man he’s accused of kidnapping and threatening with a…
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Animal rescues reunite owners with their pets
Kathy Holland cried as she watched her 2-year-old American Staffordshire terrier Bubba spring from a crate in an emergency animal shelter into the arms of her …
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Burial of dead begins in Joplin
Even as the death toll rose by six Friday to 132, Joplin leaders refused to give up hope that survivors will be found in the destruction left by the nation’s …
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60-bed mobile hospital opens Sunday in Joplin
Officials at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin said they will open a mobile hospital to treat patients while deciding if their facility, badly damag…
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Tax foes file suit over levy
A group trying to repeal a 1 percent tax on prepared food in Fort Smith filed suit Tuesday in Sebastian County Circuit Court, after a failed attempt to get the…
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’90 case inquiry moves off UA
Three years ago, a Mc-Donald County, Mo., sheriff ’s detective wanted to reopen a 20-year-old murder case, but first she had to find the missing skeletal remai…
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Pierce’s lawyer seeks reversal or new trial
The attorney for a Eureka Springs gun collector convicted of lying to the FBI and holding weapons for a man under investigation in an attempted bombing case, f…
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Trial of 2 remains on schedule
Two Carroll County men remain on schedule to become the first tried under a federal hate crime law, following a judge’s denial Friday to delay the trial and tr…
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Injured son, dad granted property
A Newton County judge on Tuesday fulfilled a 2008 jury award by granting ownership of the former Dogpatch USA theme park to a Harrison man whose trachea was se…
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Library board’s bid for bigger tax cut is dismissed
A judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit by the Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library Board seeking to collect a larger share of Carroll County’s library tax.
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Governor examines weather’s fury
Gov. Mike Beebe toured two flooddamaged areas of Northwest Arkansas on Thursday as local agencies began assessing the damage left by deadly storms in the regio…
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Teen found OK after river spill
A Harrison teen was rescued Tuesday from the upper Buffalo National River about 36 hours after he and his grandfather were forced out of their kayaks by raging…
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Boxley Valley Mill tours to begin today
Boxley Valley Mill along the Buffalo National River opens today to the public for one of two week-long sessions of tours that are by appointment only.
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Decision due Monday on Fort Smith tax vote
Opponents of a 1 percent preparedfood tax delivered more than enough the signatures to get the measure on the ballot, though City Clerk Sherri Gard has yet to …
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Officer a fake, woman reports
A Hartford woman said she was sexually assaulted by a man who posed as a police officer and stopped her on Arkansas 253, the Sebastian County sheriff’s office …
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Full circle
Brandon Barber proved himself willing to gamble on real estate and with high-stakes games of chance in Las Vegas casinos.
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PART NINE: BRANDON BARBER Full circle
Brandon Barber proved himself willing to gamble on real estate and with high-stakes games of chance in Las Vegas casinos. He rode Northwest Arkansas’ growth bu…
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Full circle
Brandon Barber proved himself willing to gamble on real estate and with high-stakes games of chance in Las Vegas casinos.
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Missing bones’ return reignites 20-year case
An anthropology professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville on Friday said he’s bothered by a newspaper account that says skeletal remains from a 2…
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Bones believed to be missing woman, 57
Skeletal remains found on the bank of a backwater pond in Johnson County are believed to be those of April D’Andrea, who has been missing since October.
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Dog bite prompts rabies cautions
If a dog named Jack had been inoculated against rabies, 2-year-old Emma Durant might not have to endure a battery of shots, her grandmother said Friday.
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Ex-official pleads not guilty on aliens
A former Green Forest city clerk-treasurer pleaded innocent Tuesday to federal charges of harboring illegal aliens.
