Sales tax urged for Fort Smith's future museum; fundraising still $16M short
Officials with the U.S. Marshals Museum are scheduled to ask city directors Tuesday to call a March election to allow city residents to vote on passage of a te…
Officials with the U.S. Marshals Museum are scheduled to ask city directors Tuesday to call a March election to allow city residents to vote on passage of a te…
Harold Mainer was standing at the stern of the light cruiser USS Helena docked at Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, about to go ashore to celebrate…
City Attorney Jerry Canfield has recommended that city directors reject a million-dollar settlement offer in a sanitation customer's lawsuit over the city's 2&…
City Council member Roxie Hall will become Ozark's next mayor in January, unseating the current mayor in a runoff election Tuesday.
Residents in Crawford County were cleaning up Monday from tornadoes that damaged 130 structures in the county Friday night but caused no deaths or major injuri…
One of the most famous -- and some say infamous -- characters of the city's early days, Federal Judge Isaac C. Parker, will be the centerpiece of a small park …
A man charged with burglarizing the home of a couple who were found dead in September died Thursday night in a hospital after Sebastian County jailers found hi…
A trial has been scheduled for late June for a Logan County man charged with causing the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son and blowing up the Paris home…
A man in jail on charges related to the burglarized home where a couple was found dead was in grave condition at a hospital Thursday evening after Sebastian Co…
City Attorney Jerry Canfield recommended Tuesday that city directors reject a million-dollar settlement offer in a sanitation customer's lawsuit over the city'…
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has attributed the deaths of four people last year to overdose of drugs prescribed by two doctors in Sebastian Coun…
Fort Smith claims next-door neighbor Barling owes more than $1 million for water it agreed to buy even though the water was never used.
The attorney for a former Waldron Middle School assistant principal charged with having sex with a male student has given notice that his client is pursuing an…
Shrinking revenue and swelling expenses are making it difficult for Franklin County officials to come up with a balanced budget for next year.
FORT SMITH -- Two men have been ordered to stand trial in federal court Dec. 17 in a bank robbery after which an observant bystander gave chase.
The Ozark mayor's race will go to a runoff after City Council member Roxie Hall failed to get a majority of votes in the three-way race, but exactly who Hall w…
The U.S. Marshals Museum has obtained a building permit valued at $19 million that will allow it to complete construction of the U.S. Marshals Service's natio…
Two men have been ordered to stand trial in federal court Dec. 17 in a bank robbery that was thwarted by an observant citizen.
The attorney for a Logan County man accused of killing his girlfriend's toddler son, then causing an explosion to cover up the death claimed his client cannot …
Barling Mayor Jerry Barling, who was running unopposed for re-election when he died Oct. 4 after a brief battle with cancer, received 991 votes in Tuesday's ge…
Van Buren City Planner Joe Hurst was leading former Alderman Max Blake on Tuesday in the race to be the city's next mayor.
Robyn Dawson was leading Samuel Price in the municipal runoff election for the city Board of Directors Position 5 at-large seat Tuesday night.
Law enforcement agencies throughout Crawford County will benefit from the new sheriff's investigations laboratory and county coroner's office that opened Monda…
The Arkansas Supreme Court has affirmed a Crawford County circuit judge's finding of contempt against a Department of Human Services attorney and caseworker in…
Candidates to be Sebastian County's top executive offered voters a choice Wednesday between years of experience in county government or a fresh voice and new s…
Sebastian County county judge candidates offered voters a choice Wednesday between years of experience in county government or a fresh voice and new strategies.
A city committee is proposing a "spay or pay" approach to reducing the number of dogs and cats in the city that, if enacted, would charge an owner $500 for a l…
The two candidates for Van Buren mayor offer experience in government and experience in business as qualifications for the position.
A Pettigrew man has been sentenced to a year in the Crawford County jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count in which his braking on an Interstate 40 …
A Dover man has been sentenced in Pope County Circuit Court to 35 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March 2017 shotgun slayi…
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed Thursday a Crawford County circuit judge's finding of contempt against a Department of Human Services attorney and casework…
A Van Buren man and woman are in police custody on charges of attempted first-degree murder and committing a terroristic act after being accused of shooting at…
A Logan County man told a psychologist last month that he blew up the Paris home where he caused the death of a toddler because he had no other means of killin…
VAN BUREN — A Pettigrew man has been sentenced to a year in the Crawford County jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count in which his braking on an In…
A Pettigrew man has been sentenced to a year in the Crawford County jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count in which his braking on an Interstate 40…
A Logan County man told a psychologist last month that he blew up the Paris home where he caused the death of a toddler because he had no other means of killin…
The prosecutor for Franklin County said he will request a special prosecutor to look into an Ozark mayoral candidate's accusations of corruption in city govern…
The Crawford County Quorum Court has voted to impose a higher fee on cities for housing their prisoners even though county officials admit that they can't jus…
Insisting River Valley Sports Complex partners were responsible for failing to pay four contractors more than $200,000 for work on the failed ball-field projec…
Insisting that River Valley Sports Complex partners were responsible for failing to pay four contractors more than $200,000 for work on the failed ball-field …
The Crawford County Quorum Court has voted to impose a higher fee on cities for housing their prisoners even though county officials admit they couldn't justi…
A knife-wielding man fatally shot by police Saturday had been involuntarily committed five months earlier for treatment of mental problems, according to Sebast…
Voters will choose between experience and youthful vision when they go to the polls Nov. 6 to elect a city director for the at-large Position 5 seat on the Boa…
The attorney who represented the city's losing effort in a breach-of-contract trial last month involving the River Valley Sports Complex has told city director…
Republicans in Johnson County are making a run at turning the Democrat-blue county government to Republican red.
The attorney who represented the city's losing effort in a breach-of-contract trial last month involving the River Valley Sports Complex told city directors Tu…
Republicans in Johnson County are making a run at turning the Democrat-blue county government to Republican red.
A judge in Sebastian County Circuit Court has set a trial date of July 8 for a lawsuit in which the fired city Sanitation Department director claims he was a s…
A judge in Sebastian County Circuit Court has set a trial date of July 8 for a lawsuit in which the fired city Sanitation Department director claims he was a s…
Officials with the Arkansas Division of Youth Services were reviewing procedures and actions at a juvenile treatment center in south Sebastian County on Monday…