State reduces count of kids in lockups by almost third
The number of children in state lockups has dropped by nearly a third since July 2017, part of a push to overhaul a juvenile justice system that kept some in l…
The number of children in state lockups has dropped by nearly a third since July 2017, part of a push to overhaul a juvenile justice system that kept some in l…
Citing a lack of support and financial loss, the company that manages four state youth lockups said it won’t continue its contract past June 30, although state…
The Arkansas patient who was tested for the coronavirus last week does not have the illness, according to a health department news release sent Sunday.
A mental health care company is set to halt its contract to provide therapy at the Lewisville Juvenile Treatment Center later this month because of late paymen…
Piney Ridge Treatment Center in Fayetteville has stopped its practice of restraining children through chemical injections while also placing them in seclusion,…
The company that operates a state-owned youth lockup in Lewisville failed to protect children by allowing staff members to restrain them for long periods of ti…
Gordon Wittenberg, a prominent architect who worked on the design for the State Hospital, died Wednesday of heart failure. He was 98.
After more than a year of leadership turnover at the Little Rock housing authority, the agency's board has settled on a five-year plan that includes creation o…
A psychiatric residential treatment center for children in Fayetteville, recently cited for illegal restraint and seclusion practices, also violated state regu…
Piney Ridge Treatment Center in Fayetteville violated federal rules at least 13 times during a 30-day period by restraining its young clients with chemical inj…
Ely Frankley got home at 4 p.m. one day in August. The notice on her door demanded that she move out by 7 p.m.
A psychiatric treatment center for children in Fordyce has been accused of negligence leading to youth-on-youth sexual assaults, according to a lawsuit in U.S.…
Customers filtered in and out of the hotel meeting room to come to grips with the future of their newspaper.
State regulators are investigating 14 allegations of abuse and neglect against a Fayetteville mental-health treatment center for children, including poor super…
Under its new leadership, the Arkansas Fair Housing Commission has prioritized resolving old cases, increasing efficiency through technology and renewing a pus…
The Little Rock housing authority board unanimously decided in April to put then-interim director Marshall Nash on unpaid administrative leave, a federal repor…
The head of the Little Rock housing authority board instructed the agency's interim director to fire a deputy director in December as punishment for reporting …
Arkansas has reduced the number of children in foster care by 21% since 2016 and taken other steps that put the state on track to meet the objectives of a 2018…
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter E. Hussman, Jr. spoke Thursday night in Little Rock about his initiative to digitize the newspaper as it enters its …
Sandra Wilson, president and founder of the Arkansas Homeless Coalition, will resign at the end of the year to take some personal time, the vice president anno…
Officials with the company that operates four Arkansas youth lockups told the state and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that it had fired three employees after c…
Arkansas, along with eight other states, saw an increase in the gap between high-income and low-income earners between 2017 and 2018, according to fresh U.S. C…
Ely Frankley didn't just protest for better-quality housing for herself -- she said she protested for her neighbors' children who are feeling the effects of th…
The protesters were children.
Commissioners learned Thursday that fewer than a dozen rent increases for Little Rock housing authority residents in the agency's three towers are related to a…
BRYANT -- Bryant City Council members decided Tuesday to give themselves final review of requests for the advertising and promotions money left over after the …
Rickey Tillman had never protested anything before.
Dwindling participation and simmering political tensions have left a Pulaski County program that aims to decrease arrests and detentions of children teetering …
Over the past 10 years, more Arkansans left the state to get abortions than came to the state from elsewhere for the procedure, according to data compiled by T…
Little Rock police arrested a 23-year-old woman after a handgun was pointed at her ex-boyfriend Monday, according to an arrest report.
The Bryant Police Department will spend $78,000 to buy 33 body cameras for officers in the next couple of months, one of several steps the new chief has implem…
The company that operates the state's youth lockups fired three employees, including a facility director, after an incident in which children at the Lewisville…
For the first time since the agency's inception, wait lists for seven North Little Rock Housing Authority public housing properties will close Friday as it gea…
A newly created phone line will help connect Arkansans with a rapidly rising number of mental health or drug addiction counselors, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announce…
Staff members in a youth lockup at Lewisville zip-tied children, forced them to urinate in foam cups or Gatorade bottles, slammed them into walls and gave them…
The company that manages four state youth lockups slashed teachers' salaries by nearly a quarter on average in July, leaving one treatment facility without tea…
After nine months without an executive director, the Little Rock housing authority must begin a new search because the board's pick for the job turned it down,…
A shooting in a southwest Little Rock apartment complex left one man dead Sunday afternoon, police said.
Confusion over state funding for the blind after the governor's realignment of state agencies led to a temporary denial of services for at least one man, compl…
A federal grant for nearly $1 million will pay for opioid abuse prevention training over the next two years in five north Arkansas counties, a local nonprofit …
A Pulaski County landlord with a history of renting unsafe properties to low-income residents should be ordered to pay restitution to his tenants and stopped f…
A Little Rock man who, police say, drove a stolen blue Pontiac into another vehicle while speeding away from officers was charged with six counts after his arr…
Arkansas' homeless population rose by just over 10% from 2017-19, according to the most recent data from five regional groups across the state.
Arkansas' homeless population rose by just over 10% from 2017-19, according to the most recent data from five regional groups across the state.
The state is making improvements to perimeter fencing at the Mansfield Juvenile Treatment Center to keep children from climbing the fence and escaping, the sta…
A Missouri man who, as a child, was one of two shooters in the 1998 shooting at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, died in a car crash Saturday night.
Police identified the 37-year-old Little Rock man who died in the city's 25th homicide this year and charged another man in connection with his death Sunday.
Images depicting a guitar player strumming in front of a painting, a writer glancing up from a laptop and a singer belting out a tune flashed across the screen…
Images depicting a guitar player strumming in front of a painting, a writer glancing up from a laptop and a singer belting out a tune flashed across the screen…
After months of anxiety about the Little Rock housing authority's finances, commissioners learned Thursday about a $1.5 million increase in the agency's revenu…