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The Little Rock School Board voted Thursday to pursue a five-year, $15 million grant to revise or refresh magnet school programs at four district schools, each of which has a history of specialty programs not typically available at other campuses. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Pulaski County man believed to have led a large-scale fentanyl distribution ring out of various motels in and around Little Rock was sentenced Thursday to 17½ years in federal prison in his second court appearance of the day at the Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. District Courthouse in Little Rock. Continue Reading at NWAonline here…

Arkansas State University announced on Thursday that Tiffany N. Mosley will be the next director of the Office of Title IX and Institutional Equity. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A 20-year-old Little Rock man has accepted a 27-year prison sentence for killing a 46-year-old man on Independence Day two years ago. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Pulaski County sheriff’s office said Wednesday it was “experiencing a temporary telephone outage” at its 911 center and that its non-emergency phone lines were down. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Pulaski County Quorum Court asked Sheriff Eric Higgins on Wednesday why an inmate accused of rape was allowed to be in a Netflix series filmed at the jail despite the sheriff’s contention that detainees facing sex crimes charges were excluded from participating. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press…

HOT SPRINGS — The 97th Arkansas FFA State Convention & Expo kicked off Monday for thousands of students and educators at Hot Springs Convention Center. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Two Arkansans have won corporate-sponsored National Merit Scholarship awards, the organization announced. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

One lane of traffic across the Arkansas 25 bridge over Greers Ferry Dam will be closed to traffic on May 1, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

JONESBORO — Those remaining loyal to the denomination are entitled to the First United Methodist Church building in Jonesboro and other assets, a judge there ruled Monday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The State Board of Election Commissioners will vote Tuesday on a proposed emergency rule to ban county clerks from accepting voter registration forms signed with digital signatures. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

No charges will be filed against a Eureka Springs police officer who fatally shot Christopher VanSchoick, 36, while he was sitting in his pickup parked on the town’s main tourism street the night of March 1. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

“Our children are our future,” said Ralph Vines, the founder of the annual Ralph D. Vines II Public Speaking Contest, during Sunday’s event at Little Rock’s Parkview High School. “The future is in good hands.” Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Twenty-four new U.S. citizens representing 11 countries took an oath of citizenship on the field at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock minutes before the Arkansas Travelers game on Sunday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

In a stunning turnaround, the parents of a Benton teen shot and killed in 2016 by Benton police were awarded $32 million by a jury in February only to see that award set aside two months later by the trial judge after he dismissed the case for a third time. Continue Reading at NWAonline here…

Before April of last year, Leanne Lovell was your average mother of four and doting grandmother who had lived in Wynne, Ark., for 30 years. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

If enacted into law during this year’s fiscal session, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ proposed $109.3 million, or 1.76%, increase to $6.31 billion in the state’s general revenue budget in fiscal year 2025 would be the smallest increase since fiscal year 2022, state records show. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News…

Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of “Empire of Pain,” will speak at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on April 26 about the opioid crisis. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

United Methodists from Arkansas and around the world will gather in Charlotte, N.C., next week for the start of the denomination’s quadrennial general conference. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Ivory Lyles, who the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture said became the first Black person to head an extension service at a predominantly white university system in the nation when he became director of the Cooperative Extension Service in Arkansas, has died. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News…

HOT SPRINGS — A Hot Springs man was arrested early Thursday on a felony warrant stemming from allegations that he fraudulently obtained more than $7,000 from another man in 2020 by claiming to be a real estate agent and taking money for a house that wasn’t for sale. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured…

HOT SPRINGS — A Bonnerdale woman who kept two juveniles left in her care locked in their rooms last year, prompting one to escape through a window to seek food from a neighbor, was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News…