Work set to start on teen foster complex
The Children's Emergency Shelter is set to begin work next week renovating a 24-unit apartment complex to provide independent living housing for foster childre…
The Children's Emergency Shelter is set to begin work next week renovating a 24-unit apartment complex to provide independent living housing for foster childre…
A Washington County man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Fayetteville to two charges that accused him of taking photographs of minor females who were…
The driver of a city transit bus failed to yield when it was struck Thursday by an oncoming car driven by a man without a driver's license, a Police Department…
A Washington County man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Fayetteville to two charges accusing him of taking photographs of girls who were nude or par…
Crimes in the city were down but fires were up last year, according to annual reports presented by Fort Smith's fire and police chiefs to city directors last w…
FORT SMITH -- A man who stabbed an intruder to death during a January robbery won't be charged with the killing but will be charged with possessing the drugs t…
A Crawford County man is scheduled to go to trial May 23 on a first-degree murder charge accusing him in the death of his fiancee's 2-year-old daughter last ye…
A man who stabbed an intruder to death during a January robbery won't be charged with the killing but will be charged with possessing the drugs the intruder wa…
City directors unanimously approved the establishment of a Water and Sanitary Sewer Utilities Advisory Committee but were split on what they believed the commi…
A Crawford County woman who shot and killed her boyfriend last month will not be charged in his death, the prosecutor ruled.
City directors unanimously approved the establishment of a Water and Sanitary Sewer Utilities Advisory Committee but were split on what they believed the commi…
City directors on Tuesday appointed retired ArcBest Corp. executive J. Lavon Morton to the Ward 3 seat vacated last month when Mike Lorenz resigned to take a j…
City directors on Tuesday appointed retired ArcBest Corp. executive J. Lavon Morton to the Ward 3 director's seat vacated last month when the incumbent resigne…
Officials announced plans on Monday for a third building at the the Arkansas College of Health Education, a 130,000-square-foot Wellness Research Center that c…
A Crawford County man is scheduled to go to trial May 23 on a first-degree murder charge accusing him in the death of his fiancee's 2-year-old daughter last ye…
Sebastian County officials are asking Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the state Legislature to give the sheriff more money for holding convicted felons and parole viol…
An Altus woman pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to charges she inflated federal income tax deductions for clients and took some of the resulting higher r…
A California teen's belief that veterans should be honored every day and not just on holidays drew a small group to Fort Smith National Cemetery on Wednesday t…
A man caught on a home surveillance video taking postal packages from a porch last fall pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to possessing a package stolen f…
An Altus woman pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to charges she inflated federal income tax deductions for clients and took some of the resulting higher r…
FORT SMITH -- A wave of high water bills is the latest example of city mismanagement that has eroded the trust of the people, Mayor George McGill said last wee…
A wave of high water bills is the latest example of city mismanagement that has eroded the trust of the people, Mayor George McGill said last week in a stateme…
A police officer who shot and killed a man with a knife threatening to kill a woman was justified in using deadly force to stop him, the Sebastian County prose…
It will take months or years to raise the $15.3 million needed to complete the U.S. Marshals Museum, but the potential for donations is still out there, the mu…
Voters rejected Tuesday a proposal to levy a temporary 1 percent sales tax to pay for completion of the U.S. Marshals Service's national museum on the banks of…
FORT SMITH — Voters rejected Tuesday a proposal to levy a temporary 1 percent sales tax for the U.S. Marshals Museum to pay for completion of the U.S. Marshals…
A prisoner riot Friday night caused an estimated $15,000 damage in Crawford County's 2½-year-old jail, Sheriff Ron Brown said.
Weeks of debate over whether to devote public sales tax money for the private nonprofit U.S. Marshals Museum will come to an end today as voters go to the poll…
The city and a former Sanitation Department director have settled a lawsuit that he filed after being fired in 2017 over a recycling debacle.
Lewis Coleman Shores suffocated last November by tying a plastic trash bag over his head as he lay in his bunk in the Sebastian County jail, Prosecuting Attorn…
The city and a former Sanitation Department director have settled a lawsuit that he filed after being fired in 2017 over a recycling debacle.
VAN BUREN -- A man charged in Crawford County Circuit Court in the death of his fiancee's 2-year-old daughter in November left the state rather than meet with …
A man charged in Crawford County Circuit Court with the death of his fiancee's 2-year-old daughter in November left the state rather than meet with police over…
City directors Tuesday approved ordinances forming two committees, one to provide information on the duties of a public facilities board that would be establis…
City Director Mike Lorenz has submitted his resignation from the board effective next week because he and his family are moving to Oklahoma City.
Early voting begins Tuesday in a special election seeking a temporary 1 percent sales tax that would raise about $15.5 million to complete the U.S. Marshals Mu…
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a man sentenced to life in prison as a youthful offender was wrongly resentenced under the state's Fair Sentenci…
U.S. Marshals Museum officials faced some difficult questions Wednesday during the third and last community meeting on a proposed 1 percent sales tax to comple…
City directors will vote next week on the formation of advisory committees on recycling issues and on a U.S. Marshals Museum public facilities board.
The attorney for a Van Buren man charged with first-degree murder in the death of his fiancee's toddler in November asked a Crawford County Circuit Court judge…
Postcards purported to be from "Mamaw" and mailed to the Union County jail got three women in El Dorado sent to federal prison after methamphetamine was found …
Postcards purported to be from "Mamaw" and mailed to the Union County jail got three women in El Dorado sent to federal prison after methamphetamine was found …
Officials at the U.S. Marshals Museum are pushing back the opening date of the museum until next year.
The second of two Sebastian County doctors linked by federal drug investigators to the over-prescription of pain pills to four people who died from overdoses h…
The designation of chief judge for the U.S. District Court's Western District of Arkansas will change hands today from Judge P.K. Holmes III in Fort Smith to J…
The city's convention center made more money last year than in 2017, but expenses were greater and it still required a subsidy from the city's general fund to …
A woman arrested in Van Buren driving a car with nearly 76 pounds of methamphetamine told police the trip she was making from California to Atlanta was one of …
Voting begins today by school district teachers to elect members to serve on the newly established personnel and policy committee.
A woman arrested last week in the shooting of a man in a rural Crawford County cemetery has been charged with first-degree murder.
Voting begins Sunday evening by School District teachers to elect members to serve on the newly established personnel and policy committee.