PAPER TRAILS: Goose dog has a scare but rallies

A GOOD BOY Things were looking rather bleak for Shep earlier this month. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Virus’s toll up to 600 in Arkansas

Fourteen additional deaths from covid-19 pushed the state’s total to 600, the Arkansas Department of Health reported Saturday. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Ex-officer says role was crowd control; Harris op-ed gets Newsweek apology

A former Minneapolis police officer involved in George Floyd’s arrest told investigators that he was focused on crowd control and minimized his role in the actions that led to Floyd’s death, video of the interview shows. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

3 men arrested in SAU killing

Authorities arrested three men Friday night in the shooting death of a Southern Arkansas University student. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas man accused of abusing boy

A registered sex offender in Mountain Home is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy at Robinson Point Campground in July, authorities said. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

POLICE BEAT: Little Rock woman arrested on robbery count

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Collins’ slayer investigated in ’07, file shows; police focus said to be talk of a hit

More than a decade before her arrest and eventual conviction for the murder of former state Sen. Linda Collins, the Arkansas State Police investigated allegations that Rebecca O’Donnell sought a hit on her ex-husband, according to records released Thursday. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

At briefing, schools loom large; state sees uptick of 652 infections

Covid-19 deaths in Arkansas climbed by nine to 582 Thursday, the state Department of Health announced. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Penalty delivered for hateful text

The Arkansas Board of Education handed down a four-year probation and a $250 fine Thursday to a teacher/coach who was accused of texting a racially hateful message to a parent. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Virus testing slows in state

Daily coronavirus tests logged by the Arkansas Department of Health fell below 5,000 for the second-straight day on Wednesday, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced his intention to join a new coalition of states seeking to strengthen their buying power for tests. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Virus testing slows in state

Daily coronavirus tests logged by the Arkansas Department of Health fell below 5,000 for the second-straight day on Wednesday, and Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced his intention to join a new coalition of states seeking to strengthen their buying power for tests. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

State’s southwest sees flooding; in some areas, rain tops 7 inches, leads to evacuations

Heavy rains moved through the southwest part of the state Wednesday morning and into the afternoon resulted in some evacuations in Texarkana and Dierks, and damaged roads in Sevier and Howard counties, officials said. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

DNA links Arkansas man to 1996 Alaska strangulation death

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

State new cases fall to lowest in month

Arkansas recorded a month-long low in new coronavirus cases, as well as tests Tuesday, even as the number of reported deaths from the virus rose by 11, bringing the toll to 566. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

State new cases fall to lowest in month

Arkansas recorded a month-long low in new coronavirus cases, as well as tests Tuesday, even as the number of reported deaths from the virus rose by 11, bringing the toll to 566. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Sharp rise in virus cases among children reported

More than 97,000 U.S. children tested positive for the coronavirus in the last two weeks of July, more than a quarter of the total number of children diagnosed nationwide since March, according to data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

China slaps sanctions on Cotton

China is imposing sanctions on U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and 10 other Americans, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told reporters Monday. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Union: Delay on-site classes in Arkansas

Carol Fleming, president of the Arkansas Education Association — the state’s largest teachers union — told a legislative education caucus Monday that it is unsafe for schools to resume on-campus instruction until the state is better able to contain the spread of the covid-19 disease. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

New virus cases taper off to 572 in Sunday total

Nine more deaths reported on Sunday brought the human toll of the covid-19 outbreak to 544 in Arkansas, according to the state Department of Health. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Virus can’t stop show, teachers say; masks, distance pose special challenges for state’s choirs, bands

Performing arts educators around the state are expressing some trepidation and uncertainty about how to move forward. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Colleges in Arkansas firm up plans for covid-19; testing, tracing among concerns

Plans for covid-19 testing and contact tracing are emerging at Arkansas’ college campuses as students have begun moving in for the first on-campus coursework since March. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Time crunch has census-takers in Arkansas racing the clock

The shortened timeline for the U.S. Census Bureau to go door-to-door means a relatively rural and poorer state such as Arkansas is likely to be undercounted, advocates said. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

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