Health care firm close to deal to sell non-DHS operations to Arkansas company

Preferred Family Healthcare has a preliminary agreement to sell all of its Arkansas operations not related to its rescinded state business to an affiliate of a Russellville-based health care firm, the Missouri-based nonprofit said in a statement late …

Satanic Temple brings Baphomet statue to Arkansas for rally!

Aug, 18 2018 Author: Thema Newsroom The statue of Baphomet can’t be installed under a 2017 state law that requires legislative sponsorship for consideration of any monument The Satanic Temple temporarily placed a bronze statue of a goat-headed, winged …

Arkansas inmate serving time for capital murder found dead of apparent suicide, officials say

A 52-year-old inmate was found dead of apparent suicide Thursday evening, according to the Arkansas Department of Correction. Shortly before 5 p.m., staff members at the Ouachita River Correctional Unit in Malvern found Anthony Griffin hanging in a locked …

At least 1 person killed in fire at central Arkansas apartment complex, authorities say

At least one person died in an apartment fire in central Arkansas early Saturday morning, authorities said. Eight units of an apartment in the 200 block of East 5th Street in Lonoke were deemed a total loss, according to Dan Noble, a spokesman for the …

Allen Brown to run uncontested for Texarkana Arkansas mayor

TEXARKANA, AR (KSLA) - If you don't see any signs for Allen Brown campaigning for Texarkana Arkansas mayor — there's a reason. He doesn't need to.  No one qualified to run against Texarkana businessman Allen Brown for the position of Mayor. …

Traveling Arkansas: Dinosaur fossils in Smackover

Arkansas attorney general asks to delay trial on sedative used in lethal injections

The Arkansas attorney general's office asked Monday that a federal trial scheduled to begin Nov. 26 on the constitutionality of using the drug midazolam in the lethal injection of death-row inmates be postponed. Attorneys for the inmates said Friday …

Church group's opposition stuns advocates of 'tort reform' in Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK — So-called tort reform has been an easy sell in states controlled by Republicans, and backers of a lawsuit-limiting proposal on the ballot in Arkansas this fall expected little trouble winning passage until they ran into a surprising obstacle …

2 juveniles killed when vehicle struck by train in Arkansas

CORNING, Ark. — Arkansas State Police say two juvenile girls were killed when the vehicle they were in was struck by a train in northeast Arkansas. A state police report says the two were eastbound on a county road in Clay County near Corning on Friday …

2 girls killed when vehicle struck by train in Arkansas, state police say

CORNING — Arkansas State Police say two juvenile girls were killed when the vehicle they were in was struck by a train in northeast Arkansas. A state police report says the two were eastbound on a county road in Clay County near Corning on Friday when the …