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Kyle Wilks, a Marine from Rogers died this week in Afghanistan. Wilkswas in a convoy of 36 vehicles in the Kandahar province when the vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device.
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says he doesn’t know whether Arkansas is ready to resume executions now that the Supreme Court has upheld Kentucky’s lethal injection procedure.
The Arkansas Highway Department says at least 30 state highways are damaged due to heavy rain and flooding. On Highway 65 just south of Marshall one lane crumbled and disappeared down the embankment. Extreme cracks on Highway 16 in Madison County are also worrying highway officials. Arkansas estimates $12 million in statewide damage.
The Arkansas Highway Commission on Wednesday tentatively awarded an $8.6 million contract to build a bypass for U.S. 167 at Sheridan, part of a long-sought effort to create a continuous fourlane highway between El Dorado and Little Rock.
The City of Searcy experienced a 19 percent jump in sales tax revenue in March while White County saw a 21 percent rise.
NFL.com’s Adam Schefter reports Darren McFadden is the top-rated player on the St. Louis Rams’ draft board.
Almost 300 undocumented workers were rounded up at Pilgrim’s Pride poultry plants in Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida and West Virginia yesterday. Pilgrims Pride officials say they went to the federal agents with information about identity theft at the Batesville plant.
College students in Arkansas will have greater access to federally backed student loans than students in many other states this fall even if the Arkansas Student Loan Authority is unable to make loans.
Former state attorney general Steve Clark has scheduled a Saturday news conference to announce whether he plans to run for Fayetteville mayor, 18 years after a felony fraud conviction forced him out of elected office.
Monday, April 21 is the last day to register to vote for the May 20 Preferential Primary and Nonpartisan Judicial Election.
Big rigs will no longer be able to use their loud engine brakes within the Fayetteville city limits.
Officials at Pine Bluff Poultry expect the facility to be open by July 1 in the former Tyson Foods plant. 100 new jobs will be created immediately. An Illinois-based boot manufacturer is opening a new factory in Forrest City that is expected to employ 200 people.
Dillard’s will close its Louisville distribution center, laying off 89 employees.
Vince Davis and Hurshel Sanders are facing charges in connection with a string of Heights area break-ins. The crucial piece of evidence is the digital camera on which the suspects took pictures of themselves apparently celebrating the many stolen items.
A teenager accused of starting fires that caused $10 million in timber damage in southeast Arkansas can be prosecuted as an adult, the state Court of Appeals has ruled. Joel David Holland is charged as an adult in Ashley County Circuit Court with arson, causing a catastrophe and unlawful burning in connection with fires that burned nearly 4,000 acres.
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