3-vehicle wreck kills 1, injures 5 in Arkansas, troopers say
A 41-year-old woman died and five others were injured after two successive wrecks involving three vehicles Monday evening in Newport, troopers said.
A 41-year-old woman died and five others were injured after two successive wrecks involving three vehicles Monday evening in Newport, troopers said.
A Pine Bluff alderman’s plan to rename a major thoroughfare after Martin Luther King Jr. has drawn the ire of some city leaders.
Attorneys asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday to stop the state Board of Education from closing isolated schools until after the state defines how lon…
The 16-year-old involved in the murder of two West Memphis police officers considered shooting law enforcement personnel in the past, according to a statement …
The two police officers killed in an Interstate 40 shootout last week died heroes, protecting the community they loved, pastors said during both of the fallen …
A father and son passing through Arkansas shot and killed two West Memphis police officers in a traffic stop before dying themselves in a hail of gunfire, the …
Two police officers were killed in a traffic-stop shooting Thursday on Interstate 40, touching off a manhunt that ended with two additional lawmen shot and the…
After serving 20 years as president of the University of Arkansas System, B. Alan Sugg announced his retirement Wednesday, effective June 30, 2011.
Like thousands of college students across the country, Southern Arkansas University Mulerider Sunny Wilcox has a college work-study job to help pay the bills.
A group of parents from rural north Arkansas has filed a lawsuit asking the court to void an Arkansas Board of Education vote to dissolve the Twin Rivers Schoo…
The Arkansas Board of Education on Monday voted unanimously to dissolve the Twin Rivers School District, divide up its territory and parcel the area out to six…
University of Central Arkansas President Allen Meadors said Thursday that he has dropped a plan to reduce out-of-state tuition that was aimed at attracting mor…
High-school dropouts are costing Arkansas new jobs, higher salaries, home purchases and better health care those individuals would bring to the state if they r…
Fewer than four of 10 Arkansas public university students graduate within six years from the schools they originally enrolled in, according to a report present…
The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Friday unanimously approved a new requirement that the state’s colleges and universities test remedial stud…
The University of Arkansas board of trustees has discussed appointing the UA Fayetteville chancellor to serve temporarily as head of the system’s flagship univ…
There’s a relationship between residential segregation and the subprime mortgage loans that helped launch the financial crisis, says Greg Squires, a professor …
The Taylor family arrived at 5 a.m. Tuesday for the 10 a.m. ceremonial launch of the new Hot Springs quarter.
At 10 a.m. today, Hot Springs will be the center of the coin-collecting universe.
Off-duty police officers are providing round-theclock security at a Little Rock apartment complex for graduate students after residents say someone fired a gun…
The health of American democracy depends on newspapers finding a business model capable of sustaining robust news-gathering operations, the man who once ran th…
Wylena “Billye” Hayward didn’t have much contact with the University of Central Arkansas after her 1940 graduation.
Too often, individuals lie to themselves to avoid making moral choices, a professor of philosophy said in Little Rock on Monday.
The investigation and impeachment of President Bill Clinton cut a partisan rift in America that lingers today, the author of a new book said in Little Rock on …
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America is in dire need of more male mentors who are members of minority groups, the head of the national organization said Thursda…
The state’s annual audit of the University of Central Arkansas uncovered a number of bookkeeping errors and noted $4,500 in property missing from the president…
Eyes watered and noses ran as a yellow-green cloud descended on Arkansas over the weekend.
Little Rock’s First Baptist Church has lofty goals for its traditional Easter egg hunt today.
The annual Arkansas high school grade-inflation report needs revamping if it’s going to influence the awarding of Arkansas Lottery Scholarships, an education r…
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s representative to the United States said in Little Rock on Monday that Palestinians cannot restart peace negotiations w…
Arkansas elementary students’ reading proficiency remained flat between 2007 and 2009, according to new data released Wednesday.
The U.S. Mint unveiled the design of a quarter on Tuesday that recognizes Hot Springs National Park as the first land that the federal government set aside for…
Many college students spend spring break lounging at home or partying on the beach, but about 550 students from across the county came to Little Rock this week…
Arkansas Baptist College plans to spend $18 million to continue the revitalization of a campus and community blighted by poverty and crime in recent years, off…
Adopting an overhaulminded strategic plan is a painful but necessary step to increase student achievement in the struggling Little Rock School District, one of…
The mother of three boys who drowned after she drove her vehicle into a lake after a night of partying pleaded guilty to three felony counts of child endangerm…
Eight more Arkansas high schools are joining a $13.2 million initiative that pays students and teachers for success on annual Advanced Placement exams, officia…
The author of a forthcoming book related to Little Rock’s 1957 integration crisis said Monday that the 10-year effort has been more about self-examination than…
Pine Bluff residents will see a 17 percent average increase on their monthly water bills if the Arkansas Public Service Commission approves a requested rate in…
One out of every two male, black secondary-school students was suspended at least once last school year in the Pulaski County Special School District, a top ad…
An independent investigator has concluded that Pulaski County Special School District acting Superintendent Rob McGill did not make a racially insensitive rema…
The Pulaski County Special School District has spent more than $26,000 on its unsuccessful search for a new superintendent, a district official said Tuesday.
An independent investigator has cleared Pulaski County Special School District acting Superintendent Rob McGill of an allegation that he made a racially charge…
An independent investigator has cleared Pulaski County Special School District acting Superintendent Rob McGill of an allegation that he made a racially charge…
After months of work, the Pulaski County Special School Board scrapped its search for a new superintendent Monday night and decided to start over.
The Pulaski County Special School District School Board voted 6-1 Monday night to reopen the search for a permanent superintendent.
One of the two finalists to become the next superintendent of the Pulaski County Special School District abruptly withdrew from consideration late Friday.
About $2.5 million in federal stimulus money is helping launch new “green jobs” initiatives at Arkansas’ two largest community colleges, officials said Friday.
A state audit obtained Friday questions about $50,000 in spending by a Conwaybased nonprofit that’s funded by public money and run by a local alderman.
The Pulaski County Special School District School Board will consider next month whether to create special personnel policy committees to replace the recently …