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Arkansas Department of Corrections officials said Thursday they are confident they will be able to withstand any lawsuit brought against the agency after admitting to a seven-year mistake in interpreting Arkansas law that has affected the sentences of hundreds of inmates. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

Bail was set at $100,000 each for a Rogers couple arrested after authorities said their 2-month-old son died while they slept with him less than two years after another of the couple’s children died under similar circumstances. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park has been renamed Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park to more accurately identify the local people who built the mounds more than 1,000 years ago, according to a news release from Arkansas State Parks. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Boosted by rising individual income and sales and use tax collections, Arkansas’ general revenue increased in October by $75.7 million or 11.9% over the same month a year ago to $710.7 million. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

MENA — University of Arkansas Community College at Rich Mountain students studying business will more seamlessly be able to turn their associate’s degree into a bachelor’s degree from the state’s flagship university beginning this spring. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Ray Rodgers spent a lifetime leveling the incongruities of good humor and fixing cuts on the faces of fist fighters. Beyond mending the wounds of professionals, Rodgers was at the heart of amateur boxing in Arkansas and across America. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday cleared the way for Arkansas’ Medicaid expansion program to proceed with implementing a rural health care initiative targeting certain at-risk populations, Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Tuesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock City Manager Bruce Moore at a meeting on Tuesday confirmed that a local elected official relayed to him last week that a city department head had told her Mayor Frank Scott Jr. sought to withhold a particular document from a requestor. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press…

An hourslong standoff that began Monday in Sherwood’s Indian Hills neighborhood has been resolved, police said Tuesday morning. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock recorded its 70th homicide of the year on Sunday, nearing the record set in 1993, and the interim police chief said Monday that investigating officers need support. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

More than $19 million in state funding will go to 36 public school districts to help with their warm, safe and dry campus repairs, the Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation Commission decided Monday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The 2022 enrollment counts in Pulaski County’s largest public school districts are a mixed bag. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

When the U.S. House Appropriations Committee passed its version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act on a 32-26 vote in June, a ticking clock began. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

With the Nov. 8 general election nearing, Republican gubernatorial nominee Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday night held a rally in west Little Rock and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris Jones visited churches and canvassed voters on the same day. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The number of people killed in Little Rock exceeded the city’s 2021 homicide toll this month, reaching 69 last week and leaving the possibility that the number of deaths will by year’s end reach the deadly high of 76 recorded in 1993, when the city was embroiled in gang-and-drug-related violence. Continue Reading at NWAonline here…

In seeking his third six-year term in the U.S. Senate, Republican John Boozman of Rogers says voters should cast their ballots for him because he’s been right on the issues and has worked hard at representing Arkansas with its “conservative values.” Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

An adviser in the administration of Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. has resigned to take a job outside Arkansas in the wake of LITFest, though he said his departure was unrelated to the botched festival. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

After a long delay from the global pandemic, a formal investiture ceremony celebrating the elevation of the newest federal judge to the bench in the Eastern District of Arkansas was held Friday at the Richard Sheppard Arnold Federal Courthouse in Little Rock. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

Little Rock police on Friday morning arrested a woman who is the Democratic candidate for Arkansas state auditor on a felony warrant, jail records showed. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ commission that sets the salaries of the state’s elected officials on Friday proposed increasing the salaries of the state court judges and prosecutors by 2% and compounding that with a 5% raise. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas Department of Corrections Secretary Solomon Graves told legislators during a committee meeting Thursday that officials will ask the Board of Corrections to authorize the department to begin the site selection process for construction of a new prison facility. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock Police attempted to serve the Democratic candidate in Arkansas’ state auditor race an arrest warrant during an incident earlier this month. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service