State opioid deaths not all tallied; system for investigating, reporting them deemed unreliable
State officials say the four-year death toll from opioid overdoses in Arkansas is likely higher than the 800 found in a federal database.
State officials say the four-year death toll from opioid overdoses in Arkansas is likely higher than the 800 found in a federal database.
In a unanimous decision Friday, the Arkansas Supreme Court denied the attorney general's demand that a prosecuting attorney drop a lawsuit against opioid-maker…
In a unanimous decision Friday, the Arkansas Supreme Court denied the attorney general's demand that a prosecuting attorney drop a lawsuit against opioid-maker…
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's demand that a prosecuting attorney drop a lawsuit against opioid makers that's similar to her own drew harsh responses Wedne…
Two lawsuits filed in separate state courts this month say opioid-makers lied about the risks and benefits associated with their addictive painkillers through …
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said she sued opioid manufacturers Thursday to "make them pay for what they have done to Arkansas."
Officials with Little Rock's public housing agency said Wednesday that multimillion-dollar renovations at three downtown housing towers will begin around June,…
The state and a coalition of 87 Arkansas counties and cities are suing the makers and distributors of addictive painkillers for their role in the opioid epidem…
Arkansas' juvenile-justice system needs an overhaul, and progress is underway, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday.
Arkansas' patchwork juvenile probation system needs an overhaul to treat children in the system more equitably, says a group of judges and youth advocates.
Arkansas is a test site for a national pilot project aimed at helping children overcome barriers they face after getting out of jail.
Two state caseworkers routinely took children away from their parents and violated families' civil rights for years, a federal lawsuit says.
Children entrenched in Arkansas' juvenile probation system often find themselves without needed help because of overworked officers and judges who won't change…
In southeast Arkansas, school officials threatened to withdraw money for juvenile probation officers’ salaries as leverage for desired outcomes in juvenile cou…
EUDORA -- No one in power cares what happens to kids in Eudora.
A Hot Springs child day care provider is at the center of a state-led investigation after the day care's therapy director accused a top employee of insurance f…
State officials say a watchdog group's concerns about deteriorated conditions at two youth lockups have been mostly addressed or were exaggerated in the first …
In two separate escapes over the past week, four Arkansas teenagers ran away from the state-run youth lockups where they were being held, with one still at lar…
In two separate escapes over the past week, four Arkansas teenagers ran away from the state-run youth lockups where they were being held, with one still at lar…
Some Arkansas teenagers in state custody have spent the past several weeks confined to unheated dorms during below-freezing nights, showering in mold-infested …
Stagnant funding for the state's youth services agency poses challenges for advocates who seek to overhaul Arkansas' juvenile justice system by moving away fro…
Stagnant funding for the state's youth services agency poses challenges for advocates who seek to overhaul Arkansas' juvenile justice system by moving away fro…
An alliance of Arkansas cities pulled its federal lawsuit against the makers and distributors of addictive opioid drugs on Wednesday, a day after filing it, sa…
A civil-rights case centered around the 2016 jailing of an Arkansas foster child without a warrant was settled last week in federal court.
Little Rock police officers arrested a father accused in a shooting Thursday that wounded his adult son in the leg, authorities said.
Fewer infants died in their sleep and more children are being adopted this year, but other figures -- like the doubling of firearm fatalities -- prove that eff…
An Arkansas deputy prosecuting attorney ordered the jailing of a foster child without reason last year, a federal lawsuit says.
Most Arkansas youths thrown in juvenile jail last year were nonviolent offenders, a newly released state report shows.
Arkansans can now buy the lifesaving drug naloxone without a prescription at pharmacies across the state -- thanks to a new law intended to curb fatal opioid o…
The cause of a Sunday morning fire that destroyed a nearly 60-year-old church in Arkansas remains unclear.
Two teenagers broke out of a state-run youth lockup last week, prompting officials to fire one of the jail's supervisors.
All seven state-operated youth lockups will be privatized next year, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced during a Monday news conference.
State officials fired the director of a Harrisburg juvenile jail on Aug. 4, four days after the short-lived escape of two teenage boys who had been detained th…
The locks that keep young Arkansans behind bars at a juvenile jail in Alexander still haven't been replaced -- despite years of warnings that the obsolete dead…
Four days after a shooting in a downtown Little Rock nightclub left 28 people injured, five of the victims remained hospitalized Tuesday, and police had yet to…
Three former Arkansas juvenile detention officers indicted this month for conspiring to abuse jailed teenagers pleaded innocent Tuesday in federal court.
Three former Arkansas juvenile detention officers indicted this month for conspiring to abuse jailed teenagers pleaded innocent Tuesday in federal court.
Three former Arkansas juvenile-detention officers were indicted Friday as part of a conspiracy to abuse jailed teenagers, nine days after two administrators pl…
A Jefferson County juvenile detention officer was released Thursday from the hospital, two days after a beating by a teenage detainee left him with a fractured…
Two former supervisors of an Arkansas juvenile lockup confessed Wednesday in federal court to assaulting and needlessly punishing detained youths and conspirin…
Two state legislative proposals seek to increase transparency and keep better track of police-involved shootings in Arkansas.
Lucy Crowder tries to remember her son in terms of how he lived: a loving father, a brother who teased his younger sister, the kind of friend who cried with yo…
For many officers involved in police shootings, the greatest fear “is they don’t want to get into another one,” Little Rock Police detective Tommy Hudson said.…
Roseetta Robinson wept alone on Halloween 2011 after a policeman killed her father. There were no protests, no riots, no public calls for accountability. No ac…
Police in Arkansas shot at least 135 people in the past six years. Sixty-seven died. During the same period, at least three Arkansas police officers were fa…
A circuit judge set out to ensure that three teenagers wouldn't "languish" in county-run youth jails last year, but he ended up successfully challenging the st…
Some Arkansas teenagers in state custody live in quarters that reek of urine, and at some juvenile centers, 11 youths share a single urinal and shower, a failu…
As officials work to ensure that the state's last-minute takeover of seven youth jails is seamless, larger questions about Arkansas' juvenile justice system re…
The state will take control of operations at seven youth lockups at the start of the new year, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Friday, arguing that such action w…
A new report urges lawmakers to overhaul the state's system for dealing with struggling youths and parents so that it lives up to its name, Families in Need of…