2024 Stephens Award recipients announced

Five high school seniors and five teachers from Little Rock are recipients of the 2024 Stephens Award. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Williams Library to reopen with three events this week

The Central Arkansas Library System is reopening the Sue Cowan Williams Library this week. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Mineola man dies in crash on I-30

A man died in a car crash on Interstate 30 in Saline County on Sunday afternoon, according to a preliminary report from Arkansas State Police. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

VA regional office set for virtual claims clinic

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ regional office will hold a virtual claims clinic on April 25. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins discusses Netflix jail series

In the midst of controversy over his decision to allow a production crew to film a Netflix reality series inside the Pulaski County jail, Sheriff Eric Higgins spoke to the NAACP’s Jacksonville branch Sunday afternoon about the divisive series. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Second round of herbicide treatment targeting invasive aquatic plant set to begin at Lake Maumelle

Central Arkansas Water has made progress in its efforts to attack the invasive aquatic plant known as hydrilla in Lake Maumelle, the utility’s board of commissioners were told during a recent meeting. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

State dashboard offers bridge, road data

There are 12,808 bridges that motorists drive across in Arkansas; 7,358 are state-owned, and 327 are located in Little Rock. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Secretary of state asks to double number of State Capitol Police officers

Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston is asking the Arkansas General Assembly to double the number of State Capitol Police officers to provide security to the Multi-Agency Complex and Arch Ford Education buildings west of the state Capitol and the Winthrop Rockefeller Building east of the state Capitol. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured…

Arkansas student public service requisite to begin

Seventy-five clock hours of community service are required for Arkansas’ public school students starting with this year’s class of ninth graders who will graduate in 2026-2027. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Womack embraces new appropriations role overseeing transportation, housing funds

WASHINGTON — As part of a series of changes within the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., has accepted a new position leading the body’s subcommittee overseeing spending for transportation and housing programs. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock man sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for distribution of child pornography

A Little Rock man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in federal prison — the statutory maximum sentence — for distribution of child pornography in which the judge called his conduct “about the worst I’ve ever seen. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Motorcyclist dies in wreck on I-49

A Bentonville man died Friday morning in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 49, a preliminary report from the Arkansas State Police states. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas rap artist Bankroll Freddie acquitted of most serious drug, firearms charges against him as jury delivers mixed verdict

After more than two days of testimony, a jury of eight women and four men deliberated about four hours before delivering a mixed verdict acquitting Arkansas rap artist Bankroll Freddie of the most serious charges against him but convicting him of other drug and firearms charges. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: -…

Appropriation bill approved by House

The Arkansas House of Representatives on Thursday approved the general appropriation for certain expenses of the judicial and legislative branches of government. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

LRSD pay approved for 5 missed days

The Little Rock School Board voted Thursday to pay employees for the five January school days that they could not work and who faced making up the missed time later in the spring because of inclement winter weather that closed the campuses. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

Two crashes leave two Arkansans dead

Two people were killed and three more hurt in two crashes on Arkansas roads Wednesday afternoon, preliminary reports from the Arkansas State Police state. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

John Calipari officially the new men’s coach at the University of Arkansas

FAYETTEVILLE — The worst-kept secret in college basketball became official early Wednesday when John Calipari was announced as the new men’s coach at the University of Arkansas. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

State lawmakers file several bills addressing crypto mining concerns

Lawmakers filed a flurry of bills Wednesday aimed at addressing concerns regarding crypto mining on the first day of the fiscal session, looking for different approaches to regulating the burgeoning, and sometimes loud, industry that has frustrated many in rural Arkansas. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

Fiscal session briefs

Courts, legislative appropriation OK’d Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Northwest Arkansas Community College President Dennis Rittle’s contract extended

BENTONVILLE — The Northwest Arkansas Community College Board of Trustees on Monday approved extending President Dennis Rittle’s contract, according to board Chairman Mark Scott. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

‘We have a lot of work to do’: Former Washington Post editor Martin Baron talks journalism, democracy in event with ex-Democrat-Gazette publisher

Former Washington Post Executive Editor and author Martin “Marty” Baron told former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Publisher Walter E. Hussman Jr. on Tuesday that journalists “have a lot of work to do” to regain the public’s declining trust in their work. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Springdale council gets glimpse of massive steel structure to serve as focal point of Luther George Park

SPRINGDALE — A 145-ton steel stage shipped piece by piece from the Netherlands will become the focal point of Luther George Park in Springdale. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

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