Tossing Cigarettes As Dangerous As Fireworks During Burn Ban
Most know during these extremely dry conditions fireworks are off limits, but something you might not even think about can touch-off a grass fire that can get out of control ...
View ArticleCentral Arkansas Water Customers Asked to Curb Use of Lawn Sprinklers
Central Arkansas Water customers are being asked to cut back on the use of their lawn sprinklers.The company posted the following alert at 3:30 this afternoon on ...
View ArticleI-430 On-ramp at Shackleford Hermitage Shuts down Wednesday Morning at 9
Arkansas highway crews will shutdown the I-430 southbound on-ramp in Little Rock on Wednesday morning.It's another phase of the continued work along I-430/I-630 that's closing the ramp near ...
View ArticleTime Out Continuance Requested in LRPD Drug Trafficking Case
Lawyers for two cops charged with drug trafficking say they need more time.Family and friends were estatic on June 7, when a federal judge said Mark Jones and Randall Robinson could go free, ...
View Article$500000 in Police Grants Awarded to 3 Cities
Three Arkansas communities are receiving well over $500,000 for safer streets.The Department of Justice granting money to hire one police officer in both Gurdon and Fordyce and four new officers in ...
View ArticleHigh School Students Participate in Benton Police Camp
High school students handled rifles and handguns at the Benton Police Department Tuesday Morning.It's part of the Junior Citizens' Academy. For two weeks the teens get to see crime scenes, ...
View ArticleMan dies in heat during work on UA practice field
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- A 39-year-old man who died while working at the University of Arkansas campus was operating a forklift during construction of a new football practice ...
View ArticleBank robber with fake beard sentenced to 11 years
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) -- A man who became known for wearing a fake beard while robbing banks in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma is to serve a little more than 11 years in federal ...
View ArticleElvis Week to feature more than 25 events
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Organizers say that this year's Elvis Week, the annual party celebrating the life of late rock and roll icon Elvis Presley in Memphis, is expected to be the largest since ...
View ArticlePretty Lights is ready to illuminate Little Rock
2012 . Pretty Lights is composer, producer, and musician Derek Vincent Smith from Fort Collins, Colorado, who uses digital samples from across all genres to come up with original material. Tickets ...
View ArticleKucherich places 30th in 400 IM
Julia Kucherich of the University of Arkansas swimming & diving team placed 30th in the 400 individual medley at the 2012 U.S. Olympic team trials with a personal best time of 4:51.16. The ...
View ArticlePostseason honors continue for Reynolds
Matt Reynolds has continued to receive recognition for his stellar junior season as he was named a third team All-American by Perfect Game and second team All-South Region by the American Baseball ...
View ArticleProbable cause Razorbacks security detail broke law commission says
-; The Arkansas Ethics Commission found probable cause that a state police captain who provided security for former Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino broke the law when he accepted tickets and a Sugar ...
View ArticleSheriffs office One killed in wreck Monday
A man was killed and a woman injured in a single-vehicle accident Monday evening on Pleasure Heights Road, just south of Cow Face Road, according to officials with the Benton County Sheriff's ...
View ArticleMan dies in Fayetteville after working in high heat
-; A coroner says a 39-year-old has died from heat stroke after working in the extreme heat this weekend at the University of Arkansas. Washington County Coroner Roger Morris says the man had an ...
View ArticleHeavy turnout causes some issues in millage election
School district boundaries caused some problems with voting today as did a heavy turnout in the millage election for the Bentonville School ...
View ArticleHeat stroke kills worker
A 39-year-old man died from heat stroke after working for a contractor at the University of Arkansas. The man's death is the first heat-related death this year, Washington County Coroner Roger ...
View ArticleFake Beard Bandit sentenced
-; Jason Day, 39, of Tulsa, who investigators dubbed the "Fake Beard Bandit," was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison after pleading guilty in February to ...
View ArticleBurn ban in Benton County
Benton County officials issued a red flag burn ban Tuesday. "Due to current conditions and the lack of recent precipitation we felt this to be a necessary step," Marc Trollinger, Benton ...
View ArticleArkansas has plan for health care law commissioner says
-; Arkansas' insurance commissioner says the state is well-positioned to implement the federal health care overhaul if it's upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. If the law is overturned, ...
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