West Memphis News

Dr. Stanton Thomas, curator of The Crossroads of Memory: Carroll Cloar and the American South, discusses last-minute adjustments before opening.

A $30 million project connecting Main Street in Memphis to Main Street in West Memphis, Arkansas holds the potential to change the entire international image of the Bluff City, according to project organizers.

The Hot Springs Planning Commission is scheduled to vote this week on a 58,000-square-foot expansion of Oaklawn Park's gaming area.

The incident happened on Oxford Street in West Memphis. WEST MEMPHIS, AR - - A 3-year-old was sent to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Monday night after being struck by a motorcycle, according to police.

Five months into the year, electronic games of skill wagers at Oaklawn and Southland neared the $1.5 billion mark as both tracks saw smaller percentage increases in casino-style gambling.

Police in West Memphis are searching for two suspects they say were involved in two separate deadly shootings over the weekend.

The city of Memphis has raised the matching funds to build the "Main to Main Connector," the $29.7 million project designed to link Main Street Memphis to Broadway Avenue in West Memphis via a boardwalk for bicyclists and pedestrians on the north side of the Harahan Bridge straddling the Mississippi River.

The center was built off Interstate 40 on property near Southland Park Gaming and Racing.

There's a Twitter account that goes by the name of @DamienEchols93 . It's not run by the infamous child killer from West Memphis, Arkansas but by an anonymous 'non' who tries to get the real truth about the West Memphis 3 out by engaging their followers.

ADDITIONAL LANE EYED FOR NLR TO WM State highway officials are asking motorists who use Interstate 40 to participate in a survey to determine the feasibility of making part or all of the route from West Memphis to North Little Ro ... To continue reading this story, subscribe now.

District Judge Kristine Baker sentenced a former West Memphis councilman and a West Memphis police officer for a conspiracy to commit election fraud.

Damien Echols spent 18 years facing execution after being wrongly convicted of a triple child killing.

Construction, accidents, back-ups are all reasons most people don't like to drive I-40 between North Little Rock and West Memphis.

After two consecutive months of gross gaming revenue increases, the Mississippi River counties saw revenue decline, not only for the month of April, but compared to April 2012.

A consultant retained by Arkansas highway officials to assess the feasibility of making all or parts of Interstate 40 between North Little Rock and West Memphis a tollway to pay to widen the highway is surveying motorists on why they use the route and their willingness to pay a toll.

His body was found near 11th and Woodrow. Channel 11 has details. * SENTENCING IN VOTE BUYING CASE: Another defendant has been sentenced in the vote buying case involving Democratic Rep.

Emergency crews have identified most of the 24 people who died, including 10 children, in the tornado Monday.

West Memphis is to receive a $10.9 million grant to expand the city's port. The grant from the U.S. Transportation Department announced Wednesday will go toward rail improvements.

The first still from the true-crime tale Devil's Knot , which is based on the tragedy surrounding the now freed West Memphis Three, is here, and it offers your first look at Reese Witherspoon as Pam Hobbs, the mother of Steve Branch, one of the three children savagely murdered in Arkansas in 1993.