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The Lonoke County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest for Aggravated assault, Terroristic threatening, Domestic battery, and Fleeing.

Two escaped Arkansas prison inmates who were captured in New York on Tuesday were being held in separate cells in New York on Wednesday as an investigation continued into how the men were able to obtain corrections officer uniforms and walk out of the prison unchallenged last week.

Three Arkansas police departments are among only 27 nationwide that are ineligible for federal economic stimulus grants from the U.S. Department of Justice's Community Oriented Policing Services program.

Residents first started seeing the bear about two weeks ago. Several traps have been set but still no luck catching him.

Four migrant workers accused a Lonoke County farmer of labor trafficking and abuse in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.

The Department of Justice is handing out $1 billion in stimulus dollars to cities and towns across the country to hire more police officers.

A Lonoke County man has been arrested after deputies found a meth lab at his home in Austin.

A Lonoke County business owner pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of failing to account for and pay employment taxes from June 2004 through December 2005.

A gal wants her ex back, and challenges his new gal for him; a gal accuses her best friend of sleeping with her guy; a gal sleeps with her guy's freeloading brother.

Cash is coming to town in Austin on Saturday. Not the green kind with dollar signs, but one with a wagging tail.

Jake Cameron Lankford, 20, 605 E. Helena St., Siloam Springs. Charged with breaking or entering, theft of property, fraud drug paraphernalia and theft by receiving.

An Austin man has been arrested for stealing a large screen TV in nearby Beebe. The Lonoke County Sheriff's Department says Daniel Henry, Jr., 36, was taken to jail after the television set was found inside his ...

Some students have to wait until high school to dissect animals, but at Cabot Middle School North, they're getting an early start.

A Lonoke County man faces charges, accused of raping a 13-year-old girl. Police say they got a report that 34-year-old Thomas Binning of Austin sexually assaulted the girl last week in Ward.

A Lonoke County man is behind bars for the rape of a 13-year-old girl. The Sheriff's Office says Thomas Wayne Binning, 34, of Austin is the suspect in the case.