Businessman known for lights among '11 Ark. deaths
A Little Rock businessman known for his huge Christmas light display and a Springdale businessman who led his family-owned poultry company into dominance in the market were among the Arkansans who ...
View ArticleNo. 19 UNLV beats Central Arkansas 124-75
LAS VEGAS -- Despite strong performances from LaQuentin Miles, Mark Rutledge and Jarvis Garner, Central Arkansas wasn't able to stay with No. 19 UNLV on Wednesday night."I like the way we ...
View ArticleThieves Target a Habitat for Humanity Home in NWA
Thieves have targeted a Northwest Arkansas non-profit. Three thousand dollars worth of tools were taken from a house being built by Habitat for Humanity over the holiday weekend. The organizations ...
View ArticleCentral Arkansas Business to be Featured on New Reality Show
" in Romance, Arkansas. It's a family based business that does more than just your run of the mill taxidermy work. Owner Daniel Ross says they specialize in pet preservation because so ...
View ArticleState revenue rises, but not enough to offset cuts
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- College students clash with administrators over steeply rising tuition. Public employees shut down statehouses amid cuts to pay and retirement benefits. Teachers and social ...
View Article49 applicants so far to direct Arkansas Lottery
Lottery Commission records show the applicants range from a former director of the Kansas lottery and an aide in the Clinton administration to a laid off employee of Petit Jean Poultry and a medical ...
View ArticleNigeria declares state of emergency over sect attacks
-; Nigeria's president is declaring a state of emergency in parts of the West African nation after a slew of recent attacks blamed on a radical Muslim sect. President Goodluck Jonathan on ...
View ArticleJuanita's is bringing big shows to Little Rock in January
Some great shows are coming in January to the new Juanita’s Mexican Cafe and Bar in Little Rock. Juanita’s is now located at 614 President Clinton Avenue, not far from the Museum of ...
View ArticleCook finishes third at Patriot
LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. – Junior Austin Cook of the University of Arkansas men’s golf team finished tied for third in the inaugural Patriot All-America at The Wigwam in Litchfield Park, ...
View ArticleGeorgia man who met Arkansas teen online arrested
-; Authorities say a Georgia man has been arrested after he drove to Arkansas to pick up a 14-year-old girl he met online and brought her back to suburban Atlanta. Gwinnett County, Ga., police say ...
View ArticleRazorbacks arrive in Dallas
Photo Album DALLAS - The sixth-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks rolled into Dallas Saturday afternoon via charter bus for the 76th AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic. Arkansas arrived at its team headquarters ...
View ArticleRazorback women open SEC play at Georgia
FAYETTEVILLE – The University of Arkansas women’s basketball team opens Southeastern Conference play Sunday at No. 15 Georgia in Athens, Ga. The Razorbacks improved to 11-1 on the ...
View ArticleQuad Win at No. 9 UCLA
Four All-Americans return from the 2011 squad, which tied for the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship, won the NCAA North Central Regional, tied for ninth in the nation, recorded two ...
View ArticleNew state law on forms seen as a hurdle for prosecutors
NEW YORK - A New York City man has been charged with dousing a woman with a flammable liquid and setting her afire with a Molotov cocktail inside an ...
View ArticleSpringdale man’s legal battle over competency continues
A Springdale man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia has spent more than three years in federal custody while his attorneys fight the government's effort to forcibly medicate ...
View ArticleSchool test results just part of picture
By Stephen B. Thornton Forest Park Elementary School third-grader Jayda Perry, 8, gets some encouragement from her teacher Toni Thrash during a test at the Little Rock school. Arkansas ...
View Article30 call for end to city’s violence
Standing in a church parking lot at Woodrow and 12th streets in downtown Little Rock, not far from where a man was found shot to death in his vehicle Wednesday night, about 30 men gathered Saturday ...
View ArticleOfficials back events center in Fort Smith
Officials with the Fort Smith Convention Center are defending the complex against criticism that if it's not making money it's not worth keeping ...
View ArticleLibrary Offers Free Computer Classes
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View ArticleDiscipline, Respect A Focus At Holt Middle School
Andy Shupe Benaiah Proctor, right, a Holt Middle School seventh-grader, reaches to score a basket around Andrew Chance, sixth-grade reading and writing teacher, during an afternoon of basketball ...
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