Private-prison use gets look by state board
The Board of Corrections voted Wednesday to send letters of interest to neighboring states in an effort to determine the possibility of temporarily housing Ark…
The Board of Corrections voted Wednesday to send letters of interest to neighboring states in an effort to determine the possibility of temporarily housing Ark…
SEARCY -- For more than a week, hundreds of volunteers and law enforcement officers have searched this White County city for Malik Drummond, the missing 2-year…
They met at Barnes & Noble on a blind date arranged by a friend.
HOT SPRINGS -- Shalawn Goodman knew that her cousin, Samuel Conway, would have to face the consequences for his involvement in the murder of her mother -- a wo…
No one disputes what happened at 117 Maurice St. on the night of March 14, 2005.
HOT SPRINGS -- Samuel Conway, 27, on Wednesday will face the first of two capital murder trials in Garland County.
Arkansas State Police are investigating what appears to be an inmate suicide at the Varner Super Max unit.
MALVERN -- The black pup, a German shepherd/border collie mix, sank into a deep sleep soon after a sedative was injected.
Confusion over voter-ID requirements remained the top complaint from those who experienced trouble at the polls Tuesday, according the the Arkansas chapter of …
A Little Rock judge issued an arrest warrant Thursday for Rodney Forte, executive director of the Metropolitan Housing Alliance, over accusations he has failed…
The Arkansas State Police on Wednesday submitted to prosecutors an investigative report on the death of a seventh-grade student who was struck by a motorist af…
Seventh-grader Jazmin Hernandez had just stepped off the school bus and was crossing U.S. 70 in Pike County when she was hit by a Ford Explorer on Monday after…
The Arkansas Department of Correction has received 16 applications from landowners, cities and counties who want their sites to be considered for a proposed 1,…
A television station's face-to-face prison interview with murder suspect Arron Lewis angered both prosecutors and the public, prompted an internal investigatio…
For 16 years, Larry Norris served as director of the Arkansas Department of Correction before retiring at the beginning of 2010. Now, at 65, Norris will return…
A class of 30 prison inmates graduated Friday from a new program designed to help them find jobs after they are released.
U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. granted class certification Wednesday in a federal lawsuit filed in 2012 by a former Phillips County jail inmate who …
As he plowed through nearly impenetrable cactus, Rick remained focused on a serrated ridge in the distance.
Rick looked at the sea of cactus ahead of him and felt his last bit of hope ebb away.
After years of grappling with a swelling prison population, Arkansas corrections officials are working on a list of unconventional proposals to help decrease t…
Arron Lewis spent much of the past 10 years in prison. The rest of the time he was under the watch of federal probation or state parole officers in five states…
During the first half of their 35-year marriage, Carl and Beverly Carter persevered through hardscrabble times, often living with family or in small trailers.
A parolee who walked off a job site last week in Texarkana was tracked Wednesday morning by prison dogs and found hiding in a shed just north of Fouke.
Police arrested the Jacksonville man Monday suspected of kidnapping North Little Rock real estate agent Beverly Carter.
Hundreds of real estate agents and community volunteers traversed rough terrain Saturday during the search for missing Realtor Beverly Carter.
Realtor Beverly Carter planned to show several houses Thursday evening, all of them in the vicinity of Scott -- population 72 -- which straddles the line betwe…
State prison inmates working for Arkansas Correctional Industries will no longer be allowed to work in schools when children are present without approval from …
BATESVILLE -- County jails currently housing state inmates because of a lack of prison space will see few -- if any -- reimbursement checks in the next 10 mont…
Cross County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Michael Ladd abruptly tendered his resignation Tuesday morning during a recess in criminal court proceedings.
A state prison inmate serving time for the 2006 rape of a Jonesboro woman and the attempted capital murder of a police officer hanged himself with a sheet atta…
In the past year, 1st Judicial Circuit Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Michael Ladd has been accused of harassing his neighbors, as well as pulling a gun on someon…
Gertrude Weaver, the daughter of Arkansas sharecroppers, celebrated July Four by becoming the oldest living American.
Rebecca Lauer, a 35-year-old mother of two, always swore she would never find herself in the type of deadly, abusive relationships featured on Lifetime televis…
Fire and the ensuing water damage forced the 150-bed Crittenden Regional Hospital to temporarily shut its doors Friday.
Tommy Williams couldn't bring himself to attend Monday's Memorial Day ceremony at the state Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock.
Each night, Vernon Holden sent up a prayer from the Arkansas prison in which he was incarcerated: Please, God, take care of my kids. Help them find a good home.
The district ranger for Big Brushy Campground -- which has been off-limits to the public since last May -- said Wednesday that he is recommending that the recr…
Many of the women at the Southeast Arkansas Community Correction Center expressed skepticism when they first laid eyes on a shipment of what appeared to be not…
The tornado that struck central Arkansas on Sunday, killing 15 people and splintering homes, ripped through Vilonia and Mayflower as an EF4 with winds of nearl…
Arkansas prison populations “exploded” in 2013, according to a report given to the Board of Corrections on Tuesday at its regular monthly meeting.
PARON — A day after a tornado killed her father and two of her sisters, Emily Tittle, 17, knew she had to be brave.
In the past 16 years, David Hood, 32, has been sent to prison seven times for drug and firearm convictions.
Couldn’t stay up to see last night’s red moon?
For someone recently released from prison, re-entering society can be a daunting and self-defeating process.
Morril Harriman — chief of staff for Gov. Mike Beebe since 2007 — was appointed Monday to the University of Arkansas board of trustees.
Parole absconders have until the end of March to take advantage of a one-time amnesty offer from the Arkansas Department of Community Correction.
Former Maryland Gov. Robert Ehrlich offered suggestions in a Little Rock lecture Thursday for taking politics out of the granting of pardons and commutations.
An icon of prisons in the South, bloodhounds appear often in films and music in which inmates — or fugitives — play a role.
The University of Arkansas announced Wednesday that those who buy tickets for indoor club seating at the Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium will be able to p…
Parolees often stop reporting to their officers because they don’t have transportation or the money to pay their fines and fees.