Recent stories by Steve Goff
Need-based scholarships being pushed
The Arkansas Division of Higher Education is pushing for a bill to reestablish a need-based scholarship program from the Arkansas Lottery.
The regular Legislative session doesn't begin until January, ...
October 31, 2020
Weekend accidents on roadways claim the lives of 8 people
Seven people died in wrecks on Arkansas roadways last weekend, and an Arkansas teen died in a wreck in Texarkana, Texas.
Two people were killed Sunday morning in a two-car collision in Lincoln County...
October 13, 2020
Death-plot case closed; no charges filed
FAYETTEVILLE -- Criminal charges won't be filed against a West Fork woman who was arrested in August in connection with an alleged plot to kill her husband.
Washington County prosecutors say the case...
September 21, 2020
Piano rolls to preserve regional classics
TEXARKANA -- Texarkana's Regional Music Heritage Center will keep on scrolling with the acquisition of 27 piano rolls' worth of native son and composer Conlon Nancarrow's work.
After they're made by W...
August 23, 2020
Getting it straight
North Little Rock mayoral candidate Terry Hartwick previously served as the city's mayor from 1985 through 1988. Hartwick's term as mayor was incorrectly stated in an article that ran in Tuesday's edi...
August 5, 2020
Woman, 72, charged in murder plot
A 72-year-old Russellville woman has been charged with three felonies in a murder-for-hire plot intended to kill her son and his girlfriend, according to court documents.
Mildred Rose was charged Wedn...
July 4, 2020
Texarkana pastor gets five life sentences for sexual abuse of girls
NEW BOSTON, Texas -- A Texarkana pastor was sentenced to five life sentences and 11 20-year terms by a Bowie County jury Thursday for the sexual abuse of three women he molested when they were childre...
July 3, 2020
Ex-county staffer's probation remains
HOT SPRINGS -- A former assistant to the county judge convicted in 2017 of embezzling county money will not have her probation revoked as prosecutors had sought to do in December.
Kristi Lynn Goss, 46...
June 11, 2020
Fayetteville City Council approves 150-acre annexation
FAYETTEVILLE -- The city will grow by about 150 acres at its western edge, but a proposal to rezone the area will have to wait until next month.
The Fayetteville City Council on Thursday voted 7-1 to...
June 8, 2020
Marked Tree ties ran deep for mayor
Mary Ann Ritter Arnold, the mayor of Marked Tree and former president of E. Ritter & Co., died Thursday evening. She was 90.
Arnold was known for her business success throughout north-central and ...
December 23, 2017