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State officials last month admonished a private company that manages Arkansas’ youth lockup centers for contract violations in hiring a sitting state legislator as director of the largest facility, at Alexander. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Little Rock police officer was shot Saturday about 8:30 p.m. while working in the area of Doyle Springs Road in southwest Little Rock, according to a police Twitter post shortly before 10:30 p.m. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

An Arkansas State Police trooper arrested a Jacksonville man on drug charges Friday evening in Little Rock, according to an arrest report. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock residents lined the street Saturday outside the Brady Post Office at 8509 W. Markham St. demonstrating their opposition to changes implemented and planned at the U.S. Postal Service, joining in Saturday’s national #SaveThePostOffice demonstrations. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Dear Mahatma: Arkansas is now blessed with six lanes on Interstate 40 between Conway and Little Rock. Unfortunately, a few drivers believe they should spread out and assure that all lanes are used at the same speed. When will signage announce and troopers enforce that inside lanes are for passing only? Some people apparently think…

A 26-year-old man was sentenced Thursday to more than three decades in prison after he was found guilty of killing a 23-year-old man in Blytheville and trying to hide the evidence. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Jackson County Sheriff David Lucas said Friday that a body believed to be a missing woman was found by deputies at 2 p.m. in an area north of her residence and that a man is in custody. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday asked several hundred people participating in the Arkansas Municipal League’s online convention to support a proposed constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot to make permanent the state’s half-cent sales tax for highways and roads. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Nineteen school districts in Arkansas are considered at high risk of coronavirus outbreaks based on the number of cases among residents within the districts’ boundaries over a recent two-week span, according to information released Thursday by the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Metropolitan Housing Alliance will ban a landlord at a Little Rock apartment complex from participating in its voucher program for a year, the board of commissioners decided Thursday. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday didn’t dispute University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences projections indicating that reopening schools to in-person classes would lead to more coronavirus infections. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday didn’t dispute University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences projections indicating that reopening schools to in-person classes would lead to more coronavirus infections. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Little Rock School District has altered plans for the start of school next week by going to a phased reentry schedule, Superintendent Mike Poore announced late Wednesday afternoon. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Despite a recent slowdown in coronavirus testing, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday that the amount is sufficient “to give us a good idea as to the level of the spread of the virus” in the state. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Despite a recent slowdown in coronavirus testing, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday that the amount is sufficient “to give us a good idea as to the level of the spread of the virus” in the state. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

FAYETTEVILLE — The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville responded to student cases of covid-19 on the first official day of campus move-in last week, records show. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

An Arkansas Department of Health daily report with information about coronavirus cases in nursing homes and other congregate settings has undergone numerous changes since the beginning of the pandemic, especially this month, to focus on active cases and not on cumulative or recovered cases. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Americans are weary of covid-19 and reluctant to commit to a long-term battle against the pandemic, the White House’s coronavirus response director, Dr. Deborah Birx, said Monday in Little Rock. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Americans are weary of covid-19 and reluctant to commit to a long-term battle against the pandemic, the White House’s coronavirus response director, Dr. Deborah Birx, said Monday in Little Rock. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

There is a “significant risk” that the U.S. Postal Service will fail to deliver some Arkansas ballots in time to be counted this November even when they are returned promptly, an attorney for the agency is warning state election officials. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

New covid-19 cases in Arkansas rose by 673 on Sunday, according to the Arkansas Department of Health, a decrease when compared with the 851 new cases reported the day before. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

One of Arkansas’ broadband grant programs has handed out a total of $10.2 million, while a similar program said it has 30 grants of up to $75,000 apiece available to rural communities seeking money to make the internet connection service accessible to their residents. Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service