The Craighead County prosecuting attorney’s office has dropped a rape charge against a Jonesboro man after saying the child victim was unavailable to testify.
The Hardy City Council passed Ordinance 2026-2 in a 4-2 vote, abolishing the city’s Advertising and Promotion Commission and its 3% sales tax on prepared foods and lodging. The ordinance is set to go into effect Jan. 8.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is condemning the impeachment effort against him as “a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment.”
Jackson County Judge Jeff Phillips is retiring at the end of his current term. Phillips has served in county government for 20 years and has served Jackson County residents for more than three decades, he said in a news release announcing his retirement.
A crash with injuries blocked traffic at the intersection of U.S. Highway 412 and State Highway 141 Monday afternoon, according to the Arkansas Department of Transportation.
A 20-year-old Jonesboro man is facing felony charges after police said in court documents that he hit a 9-year-old child with an extension cord, breaking the skin and leaving marks.
A disturbing video circulating on social media is drawing attention across the Ole Miss campus after women were caught on a Ring doorbell camera making racist gestures outside an apartment where three Black students live.
Facing an expected impeachment resolution in Congress, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he’s eager to litigate the policy choices that he and President Donald Trump have made in Iran and Venezuela.
Pocahontas police are asking residents in the neighborhood along Old County Road to be aware of several overnight thefts. In two of them, firearms were stolen from unlocked vehicles.
Paragould police arrested two sisters Sunday after an affidavit said one drove her car into her ex-boyfriend’s house and the other hindered her arrest.
The father of an autistic man is speaking out after his son was removed from a courtroom by law enforcement officers following a hearing before a District Court Judge Catherine Dean.
A deer that appears sick may raise concerns in hunters about chronic wasting disease, but an Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologist said looks alone cannot confirm an infection.
