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Grant Harbison, band director and supervisor of instrumental music for the the Jonesboro School District, was more than surprised Wednesday with a $25,000 award from the Milken Family Foundation. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Four Arkansas students have been named winners of the 2022 Congressional Art Competition in their respective districts, earning a spot for their artwork to be seen by U.S. Capitol visitors. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ count of coronavirus cases rose Tuesday by 259, the second-largest daily increase since March, while the number of people hospitalized in the state with the virus rose for the second day in a row. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

After 97 years, the former St. Scholastica Monastery building in Fort Smith will be demolished. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Pulaski County justice of the peace will be removed from office and any votes cast for her in the upcoming November election will not be counted because of two hot check misdemeanors from 1997 and 2003. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

With open primaries for the governor’s office and a U.S. Senate seat at the top of the ballot in Arkansas, officials said they expect voter turnout in the May 24 election to hit close to 2018 primary levels, as early voting in primary and judicial elections began Monday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured…

Arkansas’ count of coronavirus cases rose Monday by 62 — the first daily increase in six days that was smaller than the one a week earlier. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

An investigation is underway after a Springfield, Mo., man fell to his death Saturday in the Ponca Wilderness area of Buffalo National River, said Newton County Sheriff Glenn Wheeler. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Sunday that he does not support a possible Republican push for a national abortion ban. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Law enforcement in Pulaski County investigated 14 deaths as homicides in April, four more than the month before, making the month the deadliest yet of 2022 for the county, data shows. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A lot separates U.S. Rep. Steve Womack from Neil Kumar, his challenger in the May 24 Republican primary election for Arkansas’ 3rd Congressional District. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ Republican primary for lieutenant governor has grown acrimonious as six candidates vie to be their party’s nominee for the second-ranking elected post in state government. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Donald Trump’s sway over the Republican Party is on display in this year’s U.S. Senate race as John Boozman leans on the former president’s endorsement. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ current lieutenant governor will square off against a former department director under Gov. Asa Hutchinson in the Republican primary race for attorney general. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The chairman of the governing board at Little Rock’s public housing agency filed a federal complaint in April against a fired executive director, alleging financial misconduct and a conflict of interest. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A new book out this week by two political correspondents for The New York Times provides some insight into Rep. Steve Womack’s resignation from the House Republican Steering Committee shortly after Jan. 6, 2021. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

An uptick in new coronavirus cases continued Friday as Arkansas’ case count rose by 207, and the number of covid-19 patients in the state’s hospitals grew for the second day in a row. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Arkansas State University System board of trustees on Thursday unanimously approved cuts to Henderson State University that will eliminate 88 faculty positions and 25 degree programs, including in English, mathematics, biology and chemistry. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The Arkansas Supreme Court has requested a circuit court correct a “clerical error” that stated a Pine Bluff juvenile had been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2018 kidnapping and murder of a 72-year-old Wooster women. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ count of coronavirus cases rose Thursday by 279 — the second daily increase in a row that was the largest since March and the first time since that month that the count grew by more than 200 on two consecutive days. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release…

The site of the Little Rock School District’s next new school — the Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy — is right now a mix of old school debris with signs of a new building to come. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Pulaski County man described by a federal prosecutor as the “top of the pyramid” in a scheme to defraud the military insurer Tricare was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday for his part in the conspiracy that is estimated to have resulted in total losses of about $10 million. Continue Reading at NWAonline…