34 positive cases linked to Greers Ferry church
Nearly three dozen cases of covid-19 have been diagnosed in people who share a connection to a church in Cleburne County, while others at the approximately 80-…
Nearly three dozen cases of covid-19 have been diagnosed in people who share a connection to a church in Cleburne County, while others at the approximately 80-…
The number of coronavirus cases in Arkansas reached 100 on Friday, including 14 resulting from an outbreak at a Little Rock nursing home, according to the stat…
The number of coronavirus cases in Arkansas reached 100 on Friday, including 14 resulting from an outbreak at a Little Rock nursing home, according to the stat…
A 62-year-old retired teacher from Warren who planned her family's "trip of a lifetime" to Europe tested positive for covid-19 days within returning home, fami…
One of Arkansas' 62 confirmed covid-19 cases is a retired teacher from Warren who tested positive within days of returning with her family from its first trip …
The founder and longtime executive director of South Arkansas Youth Services received a 2½-year prison sentence Wednesday, coming more than a year after he ple…
Now in its third year, the Arkansas State University-branded campus in Mexico has fallen far short of its enrollment forecasts, diminishing returns for its Jon…
Internal emails suggest Department of Human Services officials "worked backwards" to legitimize their first-of-its-kind decision to deny licenses to a prospect…
A Philadelphia-based political operative who admitted to illicitly accepting nearly $1 million from what was once Arkansas' largest government-funded mental he…
A political operative swept up in Arkansas' corruption scandal should go to prison, but for a shorter term than called for after he provided "substantial assis…
The Arkansas Arts Center's annual showcase of work by regional artists will span both sides of the Arkansas River in 2020 while the downtown Little Rock museum…
Former executives of the nonprofit at the heart of a sweeping federal political corruption probe in Arkansas face new wire-fraud charges after a federal grand …
John Walker, whose childhood education in segregated schools informed his half-century legal crusade for equality as Arkansas' premier civil-rights lawyer, die…
The Little Rock housing authority board on Wednesday hired acting Executive Director Anthony Snell as the agency's new chief, ending a tumultuous 11-month sear…
The nursing home operators whose money woes created bleak conditions at five facilities that the state recently seized were ordered to sell a different home's …
The Arkansas Arts Center and a team of construction contractors have locked down a guaranteed maximum price of $78.3 million to remake the downtown Little Rock…
Investigators have charged a Conway optometrist's office manager with filing inflated Medicaid claims through a state system that allowed her to "input any num…
After Arkansas took action Monday to seize temporary control of two nursing homes, the state's new chief long-term care regulator said in an interview that he …
The Arkansas Arts Center's incoming boss views the Little Rock museum as the region's cultural leader and said its breadth of offerings could serve as a "model…
A contentious federal rule that would ban nursing homes from requiring residents to agree to arbitration as a precondition for care has been delayed until the …
The property-tax fight between Walmart and Pulaski County, viewed as Arkansas' "dark-store theory" test case, landed Tuesday in circuit court as the company ap…
Arkansas will be a forum for the next stage of a years-old national struggle over whether the federal government can stop nursing homes from forcing residents …
The director of the state agency responsible for inspecting and licensing businesses that serve Medicaid recipients is stepping down for a job with one of thos…
Walmart lost its appeal on lowering its Pulaski County tax assessments Wednesday as County Judge Barry Hyde issued a ruling that said reports submitted by the …
Pulaski County Judge Barry Hyde on Wednesday rejected Walmart’s bid to cut its Pulaski County property tax assessments by nearly half, finding in part that the…
The Arkansas Arts Center on Tuesday selected Victoria Ramirez, the director of the El Paso Museum in Texas, to lead the downtown Little Rock museum as it embar…
An Arkansas nursing home operator has accused another of disguising itself as a nonprofit to dodge accountability, renewing scrutiny of a legal defense some op…
Attorneys on both sides of Walmart's appeal to cut its Pulaski County property-tax assessments by nearly half have filed their final pleas with the county judg…
A federal magistrate judge should deny former Arkansas lobbyist Milton "Rusty" Cranford's request to get out of jail, prosecutors said in a filing that argues …
A former clerk who found a way to illegally bill Medicaid helped facilitate $3 million in improper billings for the Missouri-based nonprofit caught in Arkansas…
Witnesses sparred over appraisal methods Thursday in Walmart's appeal to cut its Pulaski County tax assessments by nearly half, as a two-day hearing on what's …
As Walmart Inc. started making its case Wednesday to cut its Pulaski County property-tax assessments by nearly half, its two witnesses didn't say the phrase "d…
A legal theory deployed nationally by big-box retailers to lower their property-tax bills is primed for a major test in Arkansas starting today, as Walmart Inc…
A former Arkansas lobbyist who became a key target and witness in a two-state public corruption scandal cited his "exhaustive cooperation" when he asked a judg…
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson pleaded guilty Monday to accepting bribes from a Missouri nonprofit that once served as Arkansas' largest Medicaid provider…
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Little Rock federal courtroom to felony bribery and tax fraud charges, and he agreed to plead g…
For nine months, former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson has pleaded innocent to political corruption charges in federal courtrooms in two states.
Federal prosecutors in western Arkansas on Monday charged former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson with conspiracy to commit bribery, a new allegation that surfaced…
The Arkansas Arts Center will keep all of its full-time workers when it temporarily moves as part of a $128 million makeover of its downtown Little Rock space,…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson directed the state Crime Laboratory to redo two contracts involving a Little Rock firm co-owned by the lab's second-in-command, he said in …
Another former executive with Preferred Family Healthcare Inc., once Arkansas' largest behavioral health care provider, has admitted taking part in a conspirac…
A former executive of Arkansas’ largest behavioral healthcare provider pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a conspiracy to bribe former state Sen. Jer…
State investigators have filed a new misdemeanor charge against New Beginnings Behavioral Health Service chief executive Chirie Bazzelle, accusing her of lying…
The second-in-command at the state Crime Laboratory co-owns a Little Rock company that is profiting from blossoming business with the taxpayer-funded agency, a…
The Arkansas official entrusted to advise whether state agencies can contract with firms owned by state workers said he lacks the investigative might to verify…
Gov. Asa Hutchinson committed $5 million from the state's rainy-day fund toward the Arkansas Arts Center's $128 million makeover, his spokesman said Friday.
Private donors have pledged more than $86 million to remake the Arkansas Arts Center, officials said Wednesday evening while announcing a broader appeal for mo…
A Little Rock mental health care provider who was charged last month with Medicaid fraud filed a lawsuit against former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson and his fo…
A federal magistrate judge in Missouri has ordered a nearly two-year delay in the fraud and bribery trial of former Arkansas Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson and two for…
An Atlanta man who must repay millions to swindled investors received licenses to operate two Arkansas nursing homes, exposing shortcomings in the state's vett…