Suspect arrested in 2 Cherokee Village killings
A 24-year-old Cherokee Village man has been arrested in two slayings over the weekend.
Charles Paul Stovall confessed to killing two people and injuring a third, according to a news release from Shar...
October 21, 2020
North Arkansas man arrested in 2 slayings, attempted homicide
A 24-year-old Cherokee Village man has been arrested in connection with two separate homicides over the weekend and an attempted killing.
Charles Paul Stovall confessed to killing two people and inju...
October 20, 2020
Arkansas hospital stays tied to virus reach 576
The number of people in Arkansas hospitals with covid-19 increased by 22 on Sunday to a record high of 576.
The state set records for covid-19 hospitalizations in five of the past six days.
Arkansas...
October 12, 2020
Covid-19 hospitalizations increase by 22; overall cases rise by 613
The number of Arkansans hospitalized with covid-19 increased by 22 on Sunday to a record high of 576.
Arkansas coronavirus hospitalizations were at record levels Tuesday through Friday before droppin...
October 11, 2020
Bob Boyd: Longtime musician was fixture in region
At a young age, Bob Boyd learned that being a professional musician was preferable to plowing.
The music was always in him.
The plowing, not so much.
"At 3 years old, I was already picking melodies...
October 10, 2020
First meeting of new LRSD board depends on election, panel told
The newly established Little Rock School Board will tentatively hold its first meeting on Dec. 17 unless runoff elections push that meeting into January, according to a presentation during the Arkansa...
October 9, 2020
Arkansas Virtual Academy gets OK to grow
Arkansas Virtual Academy can increase its enrollment by 1,500 -- from 4,000 to 5,500 in kindergarten through 12th grades.
The state Board of Education approved the enrollment-cap increase on Thursday...
October 9, 2020
Newport officer’s killer gets 42 years
NEWPORT — A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree murder in the shooting death of Police Lt. Patrick Weatherford in 2017.
Derrick Heard was sentenced to 42 years in prison, accord...
October 9, 2020
Judge declines to speed up absentee-vote case
A federal judge in Fayetteville has denied a motion to expedite the schedule in a case regarding absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 election.
U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III ruled that Secretary of ...
October 8, 2020
Judge declines to speed up absentee-vote case
A federal judge in Fayetteville has denied a motion to expedite the schedule in a case regarding absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 election.
U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III ruled that Secretary of ...
October 8, 2020
Newport officer's killer gets 42 years
NEWPORT -- A 19-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to first-degree murder in the shooting death of Police Lt. Patrick Weatherford in 2017.
Derrick Heard was sentenced to 42 years in prison, accord...
October 7, 2020
Black pastor follows faith to ill-famed city
HARRISON -- The Rev. Joanne Walker Flowers has moved to Harrison to be senior pastor at First Christian Church.
Flowers, who is Black, said she read on Wikipedia that Harrison is "the most racist tow...
October 4, 2020
Arkansas-born novelist Greene dies at 86
Bette Greene would hammer away at the IBM Selectric typewriter in her attic office.
Sometimes the clacking kept her son Jordan up at night.
"It was like somebody tap dancing on my bedroom ceiling," ...
October 3, 2020
Missouri couple sentenced to prison for bank robbery
FORT SMITH — A Marshfield, Mo., couple have been sentenced to several years in prison for robbing the Arvest Bank in Lead Hill.
David Ray Powers, 29, was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal pr...
October 3, 2020
Man faces charges in slayings of two people
A Scott County man was charged this week with two counts of capital murder in the deaths of his grandmother and her husband.
Dustin Wayne Shores, 35, told police he received an "order" from a higher ...
October 2, 2020