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.
Stories by John Krupa
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No MLK Drive, say many in PB
A Pine Bluff alderman’s plan to rename a major thoroughfare after Martin Luther King Jr. has drawn the ire of some city leaders.
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Parents seek halt in school closings
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…
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Report: Teen set to use gun for dad in ’07
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 …
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Officer down: City mourns slain lawmen
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 …
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Anti-system father, his son killed officers
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 …
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Gunfire kills 2 W. Memphis officers
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…
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Time to exit, UA System’s Sugg decides
After serving 20 years as president of the University of Arkansas System, B. Alan Sugg announced his retirement Wednesday, effective June 30, 2011.
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Dairy sets SAU apart from herd
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.
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Parents sue state to keep schools open
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…
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State board orders end of Twin Rivers schools
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…
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UCA yanks tuition break
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…
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Speaker sees education ‘crisis’
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…
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Arkansas’ university graduation rate 38%
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…
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Higher education notebook
The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Friday unanimously approved a new requirement that the state’s colleges and universities test remedial stud…
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UA campus chief gets look for system’s helm
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…
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Professor links race to subprime loans
There’s a relationship between residential segregation and the subprime mortgage loans that helped launch the financial crisis, says Greg Squires, a professor …
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Crowd flips for Hot Springs coin
The Taylor family arrived at 5 a.m. Tuesday for the 10 a.m. ceremonial launch of the new Hot Springs quarter.
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Spa City’s quarter has its rollout there today
At 10 a.m. today, Hot Springs will be the center of the coin-collecting universe.
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Gunfire stirs fear at student apartments in LR
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…
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Newspapers vital, professor says
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…
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After 70 years, alumna reaches out to UCA, leaves it $750,000
Wylena “Billye” Hayward didn’t have much contact with the University of Central Arkansas after her 1940 graduation.
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Professor talks of right, wrong
Too often, individuals lie to themselves to avoid making moral choices, a professor of philosophy said in Little Rock on Monday.
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Starr inquiry split U.S., writer asserts
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 …
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Youth group seeks nonwhite mentors
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…
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Audit of UCA finds bookkeeping flaws
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…
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Achoo! LR tree-pollen count highest in 9 years
Eyes watered and noses ran as a yellow-green cloud descended on Arkansas over the weekend.
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LR church using helicopter in egg hunt
Little Rock’s First Baptist Church has lofty goals for its traditional Easter egg hunt today.
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Grade-inflation report called unfit
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…
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Envoy: Halt building in Jerusalem
The Palestine Liberation Organization’s representative to the United States said in Little Rock on Monday that Palestinians cannot restart peace negotiations w…
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Report finds reading levels in state flat
Arkansas elementary students’ reading proficiency remained flat between 2007 and 2009, according to new data released Wednesday.
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Mint debuts Hot Springs park quarter design
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…
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Sacrificing spring break to serve
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…
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LR college plans $18 million in renewal work
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…
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LR forum told: No easy road for schools
Adopting an overhaulminded strategic plan is a painful but necessary step to increase student achievement in the struggling Little Rock School District, one of…
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Mom guilty in deaths of 3 sons
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…
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Testing initiative signs on 8 schools
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…
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Author tells story of photo
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…
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PB utility seeks OK for 17% rate increase
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…
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Judge hears suspension rate of black pupils, calls it high
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…
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Probe clears McGill of racial remark
An independent investigator has concluded that Pulaski County Special School District acting Superintendent Rob McGill did not make a racially insensitive rema…
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Failed hunt for chief cost district $26,300
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.
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WEB EXTRA: Report that clears McGill released
An independent investigator has cleared Pulaski County Special School District acting Superintendent Rob McGill of an allegation that he made a racially charge…
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District: Review clears McGill
An independent investigator has cleared Pulaski County Special School District acting Superintendent Rob McGill of an allegation that he made a racially charge…
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County district restarts school-chief search, leaves finalist dangling
After months of work, the Pulaski County Special School Board scrapped its search for a new superintendent Monday night and decided to start over.
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Pulaski County Special School District reopens search for chief
The Pulaski County Special School District School Board voted 6-1 Monday night to reopen the search for a permanent superintendent.
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Superintendent finalist bows out; field down to 1
One of the two finalists to become the next superintendent of the Pulaski County Special School District abruptly withdrew from consideration late Friday.
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Colleges get ‘green job’ cash
About $2.5 million in federal stimulus money is helping launch new “green jobs” initiatives at Arkansas’ two largest community colleges, officials said Friday.
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Nonprofit’s books draw audit frown
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.
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School Board delays union-successor step
The Pulaski County Special School District School Board will consider next month whether to create special personnel policy committees to replace the recently …
