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FAYETTEVILLE — Washington County Judge Patrick Deakins has ordered the Washington County Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee to suspend all further meetings because all the members’ terms have expired. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

LITTLE ROCK — Roughly 1,500 law enforcement personnel, social workers, elected officials and community members gathered in Little Rock on Monday for the first day of the state’s inaugural summit on human trafficking. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

LITTLE ROCK — Administrators from Arkansas’ public universities defended their schools’ programs and policies that aim to increase diversity and provide services to underrepresented groups on campuses during a meeting with legislators Monday at the state Capitol. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

With over 1,700 livestock exhibitors and more than 8,500 entries from rabbits, chickens, lambs, hogs, goats, cattle and horses, Arkansas State Fair Livestock Director Scharidi Barber has her hands full. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Arkansas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church voted overwhelmingly Sunday to let 62 more of its congregations leave, joining more than 100 others that had already departed over the past 11 months. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The 32-year-old man who killed Belvis — the Little Rock Elvis Presley impersonator who sang and danced his way into the national spotlight 15 years ago with Hillary Clinton — has accepted a 35-year prison sentence for the fatal machete attack. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

Following the departure of more than 100 Arkansas congregations from the United Methodist Church over the past year, lay members and clergy from the denomination’s Arkansas Conference will vote today on whether to allow dozens more to leave. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ total Medicaid enrollment has declined by about 257,000 over the past six months based on Arkansas Department of Human Services figures with the number of adult beneficiaries in the state’s Medicaid expansion program dropping by about 94,000, the number of adult beneficiaries in other Medicaid programs slipping by about 82,000, and the number of…

Hundreds marched from the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum through Little Rock’s River Market District on Saturday afternoon, expressing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank and condemning Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza a week after Hamas attacks kicked off the latest round of open warfare in the region. Continue Reading at NWAonline…

The Arkansas Board of Education on Friday approved a final set of rules for school safety, clearing the way for school systems to be reimbursed by the state for their school safety-related expenses. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee on Friday authorized Arkansas Legislative Audit to conduct an expedited review of the purchase of a lectern for about $19,000 from Beckett Events LLC by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ office. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Hamas’ attack last week on Israel, targeting unarmed civilians as well as military personnel, left hundreds dead and an entire nation reeling. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

One week after Hamas’s bloody attack on Israel, a Little Rock synagogue tonight is holding what it’s calling a Shabbat Service of Solidarity With Our People in the State of Israel. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

An executive committee of Arkansas lawmakers signed off Thursday on an audit of the purchase of a $19,000 lectern by the governor’s office. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Today marks the return of the Arkansas State Fair for a 10-day stretch of entertaining, feeding and thrilling more than an expected 450,000 Arkansans. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville — which has record enrollment this year — already has received more than 15,000 applications for next year and admitted nearly 10,000 students, so the university is on pace to meet its goal for next fall’s freshman class, the dean of admissions said Wednesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top…

A group of government transparency advocates has released language for a proposed amendment that would enshrine Arkansas’ Freedom of Information law into the state’s constitution, saying it’s seeking the public’s input. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Bolstered by a boost in Powerball ticket sales with a jackpot that reached nearly $1 billion by the end of September, the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery’s revenue for September increased by $4.2 million over the same month a year ago to $47.2 million. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

The purchase of the $19,000 lectern for use by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was directed by the governor’s office, records indicate. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas could be a step closer to joining 29 other states that exempt feminine hygiene products and diapers from sales taxes after a second attempt to get the issue on the ballot passed muster with the Arkansas attorney general’s office Tuesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

The Arkansas’ Capitol Arts and Grounds Commission has received several proposals for the design for a new monument on state Capitol grounds authorized under a 2023 state law to commemorate “unborn children aborted” after the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortions across the nation. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: -…

Beau McCastlain, a television production teacher at De Queen High School and communications director for the De Queen School District, was named Monday as the 2024 Arkansas Teacher of the Year. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service