Arkansas News

Not much new to report this morning. If all goes well, I'm going to catch at least three movies today at the Little Rock Film Festival .

At the last minute, the 2013 session of the Arkansas Legislature created the Health Insurance Marketplace, a private insurance option for expanding government-subsidized health care coverage to more than 250,000 additional Arkansas residents.

Nimrod Dam was a subject of amazement for Arkansans when it was completed 71 years ago, forming Lake Nimrod in western Perry and eastern Yell counties.

At $600 million, Saturday's drawing was the largest Powerball jackpot ever and the second largest lottery total in US history.

Workers at the Shoe Carnival, at 12801 Chenal Parkway, were getting ready to open this morning when a six foot, medium built man with tattoos walked into the store and robbed it.

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department says the body of a young woman has been found in the Black River but her name is not yet known.

More than 80 students with the Conway Adult Education Center's 2013 graduating class received diplomas Saturday night during commencement exercises at the James H. Clark Auditorium on the campus of Conway High School.

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

Sen. Jason Rapert, author of the patently unconstitutional bill to ban most abortions in Arkansas at the 12th week of pregnancy, took heart yesterday at Judge Susan Webber Wright's indication that she was inclined to uphold the part of the law that requires women seeking an abortion in the 12th week of pregnancy or later to have an ultrasound and ... (more)

After taking a hard look at life in his tiny segregated Southern town, Robert Smith left home at 19 -- a man on a journey using only his heart as a compass.

Arkansas is full of talented people, and we ran across yet another one of them last night: the thoroughly-hilarious writer and video blogger Joseph Birdsong.

U.S. Forest Service fire fighter Bradley Taylor explains the various specialty components and attack methods when using a Type 6 engine truck to attendees of this year's ninth annual Arkansas River Valley Fire Academy.

Several Arkansans pedaled to work on Friday in an effort to help improve air quality.

Shane Bitney Crone never expected to be in Arkansas at the Little Rock Film Festival promoting a film about his life.

An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman's pregnancy won't take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday.

Leslie Newell Peacock will be in federal court for us this morning for the preliminary injunction hearing on the lawsuit challenging the new state law prohibiting most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

If you can believe a fisherman then here's a tale for you. We'll call them crappie in this story but they're known by many different names in Arkansas and southern Missouri: paper mouths, sacalait, slabs, specks and the large ones are called netters, the medium ones lifters and the small ones are called tater chips.

Investigators in Southwest Arkansas say they are facing one of the worst animal hoarding cases they've seen.

The Arkansas House Speaker is not entering the 2014 Arkansas governor's race. That's according to Talk Business, which reports Rep.

House Speaker Davy Carter is not running for governor, which took a significant amount of sizzle out of his speech at the Political Animals Club today .