Panel sets ballot text for 1% U.S. Marshals Museum tax
The Sebastian County Election Commission issued a notice Monday setting the March 12 special election for a nine-month 1 percent sales tax to raise money to co…
The Sebastian County Election Commission issued a notice Monday setting the March 12 special election for a nine-month 1 percent sales tax to raise money to co…
Sheriff's deputies were attempting to serve a citation Monday on a Sebastian County man whose dogs killed three goats the owner was raising as pets for his gra…
Charges were pending Friday against a woman who was arrested late Wednesday in the shooting death of a Fort Smith man whose body was found in a rural Crawford…
Even as they stressed their support of the U.S. Marshals Museum, members of a three-man panel attacked the proposed 1 percent sales tax that museum officials a…
Charges were pending Thursday against a woman who was arrested late Wednesday in the shooting death of a Fort Smith man whose body was found in a rural Crawfor…
Water department officials want city directors to hire 10 additional employees to fill out what will be 10 crews whose mission is fixing the estimated 700 lea…
A marketing partnership the Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority signed Monday will open the door to partnerships with other inland ports as the authority con…
A marketing partnership the Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority signed Monday will open the door to partnerships with other inland ports as the authority con…
The Western Arkansas Intermodal Authority is scheduled to meet today on whether to enter into a marketing partnership with two Louisiana port and shipping comp…
Gary Heathcott's consulting contract with the Little Rock-based Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods Inc. was terminated because of a pattern of abuse, harassment a…
Rejection by voters of a proposed temporary 1 percent sales tax to complete work on the U.S. Marshals Museum would cripple continuing fundraising efforts, the …
The Sebastian County Quorum Court has voted to hire a three-member team of consultants for a 10-month study on how the county should reduce long-term jail cro…
A Polk County man has been sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder in the April 2017 slaying of his girlfriend and…
A $15.5 million shortage of funds to complete the U.S. Marshals Museum isn't stopping the staff from carrying out the museum's mission and preparing for its sc…
A Polk County man has been sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to four counts of capital murder in the April 2017 slaying of his girlfriend and…
The former chief public defender for Sebastian County pleaded not guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock to a charge of enticement of a minor.
The U.S. Marshals Museum's effort to persuade voters to pass a temporary 1 percent sales tax to finance completion of the museum received an endorsement Tuesda…
A 23-year-old Fort Smith woman is scheduled to appear today before a Sebastian County circuit judge for arraignment on a first-degree murder charge filed again…
A woman was being held in lieu of bond Monday pending the filing of charges in the death Friday of her 5-year-old stepson, according to the Sebastian County pr…
A Fort Smith woman was being held without bond Monday on a charge of first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, according to the Sebastian County Prosecu…
Construction will begin soon on a new trail at Chaffee Crossing that will add another link in the city's growing trail system.
Ports America terminated its feasibility study for developing an intermodal port in western Arkansas but others remain interested in the project, Mat Pitsch to…
Ports America terminated its feasibility study for developing an intermodal port in western Arkansas but others remain interested in the project, Mat Pitsch to…
The second of two men arrested in the robbery of two Bank of the Ozarks employees last summer pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court.
Almost 500 Waldron Middle School students will be scattered around town possibly for the rest of the week while a control panel that supplies electrical power …
A Franklin County man charged in the slayings of his parents last fall has been ordered to undergo an examination to determine if he is mentally fit to stand t…
After being sworn in Tuesday as the city's first black mayor, George McGill said he had been given a set of keys.
A Franklin County man charged in the slayings of his parents last fall has been ordered to undergo an examination to determine if he is mentally fit to stand t…
A hearing Thursday in Sebastian County Circuit Court to discuss a trial date for a resident's recycling lawsuit against the city ended before it started when t…
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson appointed Keith Gibson to the Arkansas Highway Commission on Wednesday, making the Fort Smith businessman the first Arkansas River…
Police have a new tool to help take the risk out of gathering information in hazardous situations.
The Regional Art Museum has been awarded a $12 million endowment by the Windgate Foundation that will support the museum's mission of art education programs, e…
A man, who the government says was caught on video taking packages from a resident's porch, went before a federal magistrate Thursday and was charged with thef…
A 17-year-old boy has been charged as an adult with first-degree and second-degree battery in the shooting last week of three people, according to prosecuting …
City voters will be called to the polls March 12 for a special election on whether to levy a 1 percent sales tax for nine months to raise more than $15 million…
A former office manager of a publicly funded recycling company has been ordered to pay $72,680 in restitution after pleading no contest to stealing from the co…
Charges in Crawford County Circuit Court have been dismissed against four carnival workers charged with disposing of the bodies of a murdered couple because th…
A consolation of the Fort Smith Police Department's inability to fill vacancies on its force this year is that it allowed $1.4 million to be put toward the dep…
Police have a new tool to help take the risk out of gathering information in hazardous situations.
The former director of a pregnancy support center has been ordered in Sebastian County Circuit Court to pay $53,000 in restitution for money she admitted steal…
Three men pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to violating the federal food-stamp program.
The former director of a pregnancy support center has been ordered in Sebastian County Circuit Court to pay $53,000 restitution for money she admitted stealing…
David James Howell was sentenced in Sebastian County Circuit Court on Wednesday on an aggravated robbery charge in a Fort Smith bank robbery last spring.
City voters will be called to the polls March 12 for a special election on whether to levy a 1-percent sales tax for nine months to raise more than $15 million…
City directors are considering buying new parking meters for downtown that provide some 21st century alternatives to plugging a meter with quarters.
A man whom authorities believed to be a prowler in a barn in rural Sebastian County was shot and critically wounded Wednesday night, according to the Sebastian…
A man whom authorities believed to be a prowler in a barn in rural Sebastian County was shot and critically wounded Wednesday night, according to the Sebastian…
The Regional Art Museum has been awarded a $12 million endowment by the Windgate Foundation to support the museum's mission of art education programs, exhibit…
City directors will consider next week whether to call for a special election in March to allow voters to decide on levying a nine-month, 1 percent sales tax t…
Five people held in the Crawford County jail have been charged in Kansas in connection with the murder last summer of an elderly couple who were shot to death …