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The number of Arkansans hospitalized with covid-19 hit a new six-month high on Sunday with 33 new patients, the fourth time in a week in which daily hospitalizations have been the highest since late January. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

WASHINGTON — Vietnam War-era service members who were exposed to toxic herbicides are suffering the consequences, regardless of where in southeast Asia they were stationed, an Arkansas veteran says. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The nationwide workers shortage isn’t just limited to the numerous private businesses that have recently begun to hang “for hire” signs in their windows. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Cole Downing received the first Moderna vaccine against covid-19 in February, when restaurant employees in Arkansas first had access to the inoculations. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

TEXARKANA — Something clicked for Teresa Cox during a Texarkana town hall meeting last month where Gov. Asa Hutchinson promoted covid-19 vaccines. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

When the covid-19 vaccine became available, Jennifer Coose, a 40-year-old mother of one from Bauxite, held off, fearful that the shot would trigger a dangerous reaction with her already compromised immune system. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ cumulative count of coronavirus cases topped 400,000 on Friday as more than 3,000 new cases were added to the total for the first time in a single day since January. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Pulaski County judge Friday barred authorities from enforcing the state’s recently enacted ban on government mask mandates for the time being. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

As Tussahaw Elementary opened this week for a new school year, teary-eyed mothers led in kindergartners dwarfed by backpacks and buses dropped off fifth graders looking forward to ruling their school. The biggest clue to the lingering covid-19 crisis was the presence of masks worn by students and teachers — but not all of them.…

The three most overpopulated state House districts in Arkansas are all in Benton County, according to information presented by the state board drafting new legislative boundaries. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas lawmakers, meeting in a special session to consider easing a ban on mask mandates for schoolchildren on Thursday voted down two bills that would have allowed local school boards to mandate covid-19 face coverings in certain instances. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. on Thursday reinstated a mask mandate for buildings the city owns or operates, defying a state law that bars local governments from instituting face-covering requirements. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Ryan Crouser wrote the note and brought it to the stadium just in case. “Grandpa. We did it. 2020 Olympic champion!” it said. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A bill to allow public school boards in Arkansas to enact mask mandates under certain circumstances failed to advance from committee on Wednesday after the sponsor pulled it down to rework it at the end of about three hours of questions and debate. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press…

Arkansas posted on Wednesday its second-highest number of new coronavirus cases in a single day since January as its number of active cases topped 20,000 for the first time since Jan. 22. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday called the General Assembly into a special session that starts today to consider his proposal to loosen a ban on covid-19 mask mandates in government by allowing public school boards to require students under age 12 to wear the face coverings. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: -…

A hearing was set for 9:45 a.m. Friday in a lawsuit that seeks to block enforcement of a new Arkansas law prohibiting state and local governments, including public school districts, from requiring individuals to wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The number of covid-19 patients in Arkansas who were hospitalized and on ventilators continued rising Tuesday to levels not seen since January as the state count of cases rose by 2,343. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A jury has been selected for a criminal case in which the Franklin County sheriff stands accused of using unreasonable force against detainees three separate times between September 2017 and December 2018. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The impact of the coronavirus surge continued Monday as the state reported that 81 more Arkansas patients had been hospitalized with the virus — the highest single-day increase since the pandemic began in March 2020, bringing the day’s total to 1,220. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

The Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River between Memphis and West Memphis fully reopened Monday, four days ahead of schedule. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The first full day of the partial reopening of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River in nearly three months appeared to go off without a hitch Sunday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service