Unsealed filings show Arkansas school shooters swapped blame
The two youngsters convicted of killing four Westside Middle School students and a teacher in 1998 blamed each other for initiating the schoolyard shooting ra…
The two youngsters convicted of killing four Westside Middle School students and a teacher in 1998 blamed each other for initiating the schoolyard shooting ra…
JONESBORO -- A Craighead County circuit judge awarded the families of the five 1998 Westside School District shooting victims $150 million Monday, but the atto…
A downtown Paragould organization has until Jan. 31, 2018, to find a buyer for the 79-year-old City Light and Water building or see it demolished.
A homemade device designed to shock fish out of the water had a state police bomb squad scurrying Friday after an angler hooked it while fishing in Bull Shoal…
The state representative who runs Ascent Children's Health Services plans to retire at the end of the year, he announced to employees Thursday.
Christopher T. Yerbey apologized, then pulled the trigger of a gun held to his stepfather's head, an arrest affidavit filed in Craighead County District Court…
Two Marion police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in front of a shelter for juvenile offenders in July were justified in using deadly …
Mississippi County Judge Randall Lyn Carney, who in his five years as the county's leader helped attract a $1.3 billion steel company and suggested consolidati…
Two Marion police officers who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy outside the East Arkansas Youth Services facility on July 25 were justified in using deadly fo…
Singer and Arkansas native Glen Campbell, whose distinct voice bridged country and pop music, died Tuesday in a hospice in Nashville. Tenn., after a long battl…
A man who was armed with a BB pistol and attempted to rob a Domino's Pizza in Blytheville on Sunday evening was fatally shot by a store employee, Blytheville P…
A proposed facility at the southern end of the Delta Heritage Trail in Arkansas City will replicate the architecture of an old train depot and embrace the hist…
NEWPORT -- A 16-year-old boy accused in the June 12 fatal shooting of a Newport police officer pleaded innocent by reason of mental defect or disease Thursday …
A 16-year-old boy accused in the June 12 fatal shooting of a Newport police officer pleaded not guilty by reason of mental defect and disease in Jackson County…
A Crittenden County circuit judge set a November trial for four women charged in the June 12 death of a 5-year-old boy left inside a van for several hours, but…
A Newport district judge found probable cause to charge a 16-year-old boy with capital murder Friday in the June 12 shooting of a Newport police officer and o…
A Newport district judge found probable cause to charge a 16-year-old boy with capital murder Friday in the June 12 shooting of a Newport police officer and o…
Newport District Court Judge Barbara Griffin ordered Derrick Heard held without bail on capital murder charges Friday in the June 12 fatal shooting of Newport …
A 16-year-old boy has admitted to fatally shooting a Newport police officer and firing at another police officer June 12 and now faces a capital-murder charge,…
A 16-year-old boy died after he was shot Tuesday evening by Marion police officers outside an emergency shelter for youths, authorities said.
Authorities charged a 16-year-old boy with capital murder Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a Newport police officer.
Authorities arrested 26 people in Crittenden County and Memphis on federal drug and gun indictments after a two-year investigation culminated Tuesday morning i…
Authorities are waiting for forensic enhancements of video taken from surveillance and police body cameras during the June 12 fatal shooting of Newport Police …
The mother of a 5-year-old West Memphis boy who died June 12 after day care workers left him unattended inside a van for eight hours has filed a civil lawsuit …
Temperatures climbed to the upper 90s in the state Thursday, prompting the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory for the entire state and forcing t…
Fulton and Searcy counties are now eligible to apply for public assistance to help cities and counties repair roads, bridges and culverts and clean up debris l…
The city of Jonesboro plans to demolish a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places after a judge dismissed the building owner's appeal of a …
JONESBORO -- Arkansas State University-Jonesboro opened Monday the first of three segments of its Innovation System that is designed to help entrepreneurs in n…
JONESBORO — Pauline Rickman will be happy when the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department widens Commerce Drive in eastern Jonesboro as part of an east…
Mountain Home city leaders have decided to ask voters to approve a three eighths percent sales tax to help offset rising costs for maintaining police and fire …
A West Memphis man was fatally shot July 5 in retaliation for a shooting that occurred in the Crittenden County town on July 1, police said.
Police found a former Jonesboro resident dead in his Dallas apartment, and authorities have arrested a man who said he met the victim through a Craigslist adve…
Walnut Ridge officials are considering condemning a 100-year-old downtown building owned by a former mayor, fearing it could soon collapse and injure residents.
June in Arkansas is normally associated with high temperatures and dry conditions, but last month was one of the cooler and wetter Junes the state has seen in …
The first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years will occur in the United States on Aug. 21, and although Arkansas isn't in the "path of totality," res…
JONESBORO -- A short-lived "spin-up" tornado toppled trees and ripped the roof off an apartment complex near downtown Monday morning as a quick-moving system s…
The first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years will occur in the United States on Aug. 21, and although Arkansas isn't in the "path of totality," res…
In addition to struggles with rising equipment costs, increases in emergency calls and keeping up with new training, Arkansas volunteer fire departments are fa…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended disaster assistance to residents in three additional Arkansas counties that were hit by storms and floodin…
Two men who police say shot and killed one person and injured six others during a May 14 downtown Jonesboro party face first-degree murder charges.
Two lanes of a five-lane Interstate 555 overpass in Jonesboro are reopen to traffic after a tractor-trailer struck its support columns and exploded Tuesday, st…
Highway officials closed an Interstate 555 overpass in west Jonesboro on Tuesday after a tractor-trailer rig struck its supports and burst into flames, killin…
Nine sections of the earthen levee along the Black River near Pocahontas, including a 300-yard stretch, remain gouged by last month's flooding, but U.S. Army C…
The Arkansas Department of Human Services has placed on probation the license of a West Memphis child care center where a disabled 5-year-old boy died June 12 …
An 18-year-old accused in the June 12 fatal shooting of a Newport police officer has yet to be formally charged, and a Jackson County circuit judge set an Aug.…
Four former day care workers charged in the death of a 5-year-old disabled boy who was left inside a sweltering van for hours last week were released from jail…
The death of a 5-year-old West Memphis boy left inside a sweltering day care van for eight hours could have been avoided had workers followed simple protocols,…
A federal lawsuit challenges the Helena-West Helena City Council's repeal of an ordinance favored by more than 60 percent of voters in November that would have…
President Donald Trump designated 31 Arkansas counties hit by April and May storms and flooding as disaster areas Thursday, which allows residents and governme…
A federal lawsuit challenges the Helena-West Helena City Council's repeal of an ordinance favored by more than 60 percent of voters in November that would have…