Friday, May 24 2013 11:48 AM EDT2013-05-24 15:48:44 GMT
BLACK ROCK, AR (KAIT) – Drivers have likely noticed a lot of construction recently beside the Black River bridge at Black Rock. Walter McMillan, the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department's district
Walter McMillan, the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department's district engineer for Lawrence County, says there is no set date for completion of the project, which is valued at more than $39 million.
Thursday, May 23 2013 11:24 PM EDT2013-05-24 03:24:57 GMT
LEACHVILLE, AR (KAIT) - The Leachville Police Department is reporting a 12-year-old boy died in an ATV accident Thursday afternoon. Leachville police responded to the accident on County Road 142 around
Leachville police responded to the accident on County Road 142 around 5:15 p.m.
Friday, May 24 2013 1:21 PM EDT2013-05-24 17:21:01 GMT
Jonesboro police investigating a reported burglary found a marijuana grow lab instead. Thursday afternoon Officer Jason Bissett responded to a residential burglary call in the 3300-block of South Culberhouse. Click
Jonesboro police investigating a reported burglary found a marijuana grow lab instead.
Friday, May 24 2013 11:31 AM EDT2013-05-24 15:31:28 GMT
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Authorities in central Arkansas say a 14-year-old boy has died following a hit-and-run in Pulaski County. Pulaski County Sheriff's Office Lt. James Burk says the teen was walking
Authorities in central Arkansas say a 14-year-old boy has died following a hit-and-run in Pulaski County.
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says federal officials are searching the country for a possible temporary replacement for a bridge that collapsed along the crucial Interstate 5 corridor.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio school board lawyer says a now-fired public school science teacher waved a Bible at his students, handed out religious pamphlets and espoused creationism in his evolution lessons.
The attorney for ex-teacher John Freshwater says such accounts are exaggerated and that Freshwater was simply exercising his academic freedom to explore controversial ideas.
Attorneys for Freshwater and the Mount Vernon School Board have left the Ohio Supreme Court with competing accounts on whether the teacher unconstitutionally inserted his personal religious beliefs into the classroom.
Justices sparred with both lawyers during hour-long oral arguments Wednesday.
Freshwater was dismissed in 2011 after investigators reported he preached Christian beliefs in class when discussing topics such as evolution and homosexuality and was insubordinate in failing to remove the Bible from his classroom.
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A southwestern Illinois judge whose colleague died of a cocaine overdose while the two were on a hunting trip together has been charged with possession of heroin and guns.
Tennessee has announced that Tim Rogers is stepping down as the university's vice chancellor for student life, less than three weeks after he cited an "intolerable situation" in an email that he sent to chancellor Jimmy...
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