Concrete slabs where houses once stood dot the landscape of northern Pulaski County and Faulkner County like pockmarks, lingering scars of a day one year ago that left a legacy of survival and fear. »
The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board on Friday approved an amended freshman assessment and placement policy that allows public higher-education institutions to replace college algebra as a graduation requirement for most students. »
The city of Little Rock is on track to own almost a square mile of former timberland outside of corporate city limits on reserve to become a city park. »
Johnny Moore, the head of student affairs at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, has been hired as the new president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, the school announced Friday. »
A hillside cut rejected by the North Little Rock City Council last month has prompted the property owner to file two lawsuits to have the decision overturned in Pulaski County Circuit Court. »
The Magnolia City Council has approved Mayor Parnell Vann’s appointment of Kim Newell of Magnolia to the position of city treasurer. »
On the third day of searching, rescue divers Friday pulled a body out of the Arkansas River that matched the description of the 13-year-old who fell from the Interstate 430 bridge early Wednesday afternoon. »
A 42-year-old Little Rock man who fatally stabbed his wife at a cookout and then tried to kill himself was sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison. »
Records requested by an attorney representing plaintiffs in a medical-malpractice case are not covered by the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. »
When Franz Josef Haydn decided to take a crack at sacred oratorio, he decided to go big. And Christ the King Roman Catholic Church in west Little Rock was scarcely big enough Friday to contain the Arkansas Choral Society’s performance of Haydn’s The Cr... »
A lawsuit against the Arkansas lottery alleges that a $20 scratch ticket game had flaws in its printing and that workers at a retailer were able to tamper with the tickets to find $50 winners. »
Officials with the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office confirmed Friday afternoon that they have recovered a body from the Arkansas River in the vicinity of where a 13-year-old boy jumped out of a car and off the Interstate 430 bridge on Wednesday afternoon. »
Authorities are currently on the scene at Pine Bluff High School investigating shots being fired on the campus. »
The state’s judicial disciplinary commission is reprimanding an Arkansas judge who issued an order in a case involving an employee’s child. »
A woman charged in a drug and corruption investigation in eastern Arkansas has pleaded guilty to money laundering. »
