15 recruits sworn in at 9/11 ceremony
Fifteen recruits, dressed in jeans and U.S. Army or Marine Corps T-shirts, stood in the MacArthur Museum of Military History on Thursday, raised their right hands and repeated the oath of enlistment.
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September 11, 2015
State police agent's sex-on-job firing upheld
The Arkansas State Police Commission unanimously upheld Wednesday the firing of a special agent who was caught in January having sexual contact in his office with a Faulkner County sheriff's office in...
September 10, 2015
Grill, cooler, hose stolen from home
Pulaski County sheriff's deputies were searching Tuesday for a man who stole a grill, cooler and water hose from a Jacksonville home Friday, the sheriff's office reported.
Jamie Ayers, 51, of 409 E. R...
September 9, 2015
Taco Bell drive-thru robbed at gunpoint
Little Rock police were searching Saturday for a man who robbed a Taco Bell from the drive-thru window, according to a police report.
Employees of the Taco Bell at 620 S. Bowman Road told police that ...
September 9, 2015
Man's truck stalls, robbers take wallet
A man was robbed at gunpoint Saturday after his truck stalled on South Valentine Street, Little Rock police reported.
Amos Sanders, 48, was trying to restart his 2004 Nissan Frontier near West 24th an...
September 9, 2015
Shots fired near LR club; one man hurt
One man was shot early Monday after someone fired multiple rounds near a club in downtown Little Rock, according to police reports.
Just before 3 a.m. Monday, police responded to a shooting near Pow...
September 9, 2015
'44 GI remembers navigating a truck through the dead
A World War II veteran leaned back in a yellow-green velvet armchair inside his small duplex in North Little Rock, and a recently retired colonel sat directly across, holding a list of questions.
Ar...
September 8, 2015
Police: Store items hidden under baby
A woman accused of hiding Savers merchandise under her baby Saturday was later pepper-sprayed after not submitting to arrest, according to Little Rock police.
Shamirra Nechelle Hudspeth, 36, placed it...
September 7, 2015
Inmate escape bid foiled, report says
Officers discovered Saturday that a slaying suspect jailed in Pulaski County was digging in his cell and had possession of a handcuff key, according to a police report.
Johnny Tacu, 21, was booked int...
September 7, 2015
Man ingests bag of crack cocaine
A North Little Rock man swallowed a bag of crack cocaine after police stopped the car he was in Sunday, according to a police report.
Police stopped a car at Broadway and Clover streets in North Lit...
September 7, 2015
Radio broadcast tells sub's WWII story
Using a metal storage container as a makeshift seat, a U.S. Navy veteran positioned himself in the cramped radio room of the USS Razorback submarine Wednesday afternoon, twiddling the knob that contro...
September 3, 2015
Silver Star awarded at last for 'terrible day'
A Vietnam War veteran from Star City flashed a small smile at his wife the moment a Silver Star medal was pinned to his suit jacket in front of a room full of people at the state Capitol.
U.S. Rep R...
September 2, 2015
Family to bury GI after 45 years
Forty-five years after he was declared missing, the remains of a soldier killed in the Vietnam War will be buried today in Mountain View, not far from his family's old homestead in rural Stone County....
August 29, 2015
LR-area VA units tout health care strides
Administrators at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System said Thursday that adding staff and offering more services in rural communities have led to improvements in providing timely health ca...
August 28, 2015
Berryville's veterans say goodbye to 1959 armory
BERRYVILLE -- Standing outside the entrance to an Arkansas National Guard armory Tuesday, two former soldiers reminisced about their time spent there -- about the lack of air conditioning, their deplo...
August 26, 2015