PHOTO: Rep. Keith Slape LITTLE ROCK (AP) – An Arkansas lawmaker tested positive for the coronavirus, a House spokeswoman said, the second to be infected since the Legislature began its session last week. Rep. Keith Slape told
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Another Missouri lawmaker said she has tested positive for COVID-19, as the House called off its session to try to stem an outbreak of the virus in the Capitol building. The House,
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – The Arkansas Senate on Tuesday passed legislation easing restrictions on the use of deadly force in self-defense, sending the measure to the House. The majority Republican Senate voted 27-7 for the measure that
NIXA, Mo. (AP) – An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a man outside a home in the southwestern Missouri town of Nixa, police there said. The shooting happened around 3 a.m. Monday, the
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Secretary of Health Dr. José R. Romero received their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine during a televised event Monday. Hutchinson, a 70-year-old Republican, said he was being
ST. LOUIS (AP) – More than 172,000 people in St. Louis County have registered for the COVID-19 vaccine, but the the local health department so far has only received 975 doses, county Executive Sam Page said Monday.The
PHELPS COUNTY, Mo. (AP) – One man was killed and another man wounded in a shooting in south-central Missouri over the weekend. The Phelps County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting was reported around 11:30 p.m. Saturday at
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – Loews Hotels said Saturday it has canceled an upcoming fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, the latest fallout for the Republican lawmaker after the U.S. Capitol uprising. The Republican senator from Missouri helped
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Springfield youth basketball coach has been charged with sexually abusing a half-dozen girls over the past 25 years. The Springfield News-Leader reports that Antwuan Looney Sr., 52, was charged Thursday with multiple
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A lawsuit alleges Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge misuses her office to promote her political aspirations and illegally used taxpayer money. The lawsuit filed Friday in Pulaski County Circuit Court in Little
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal judge in Washington on Friday night halted a plan to release and put on house arrest the Arkansas man photographed sitting at a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is sending National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. to help with security leading up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, a spokeswoman confirmed late Thursday. Parson spokeswoman Kelli Jones
Photo: Courtesy columbiamissourian.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Ameren Corp.’s nuclear plant in mid-Missouri has halted operations because of a non-nuclear issue involving the generator, the utility company said. The shutdown announced Thursday was the third time
FRANKLIN, Tenn. – Pet parents have spent more quality time than ever with their dogs and cats during the pandemic — including more than 11 million households in the U.S. that welcomed a new pet this past
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said a judge who was barred from hearing execution-related cases after he participated in an anti-death penalty protest can’t preside over a capital murder case. Justices
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House canceled work next week because of a rising number of coronavirus cases in the Capitol. “Due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the building, we are exercising an abundance
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – The Arkansas House voted Thursday to require members and staff to wear masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The House voted 81-2 to adopt rules for this year’s session that included
Photo: A video still that authorities say shows Arkansas resident Peter Stager attacking a police officer during a riot at the U.S. Capitol. Authorities placed a red box around Stager to single him out in the image.
HUNTSVILLE and OZARK, Ark. – Butterball, one of the largest producers of turkey products in the United States, announced Wednesday that it is investing a combined $8.7 million and creating a total of 360 new jobs within
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – The Arkansas National Guard announced Thursday it is sending 500 soldiers and airmen to Washington to assist with security for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. The guard said Gov. Asa Hutchinson approved the deployment,
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, facing waning support from longtime backers and donors in the wake of the attack at the U.S. Capitol last week, defended himself in a newspaper column Wednesday, accusing
Christian Gooden, ASSOCIATED PRESS JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri House for the first time in history on Wednesday formally denounced a lawmaker accused of having sex with an intern, threatening a staffer to keep quiet
LITTLE ROCK – Ready for Life, an initiative for those who want to improve their skills or change careers, as well as gather career and employment data from business and industry, will strengthen the state’s workforce and
Photo: Courtesy krcgtv.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Security has been increased at the Missouri Capitol following last week’s violence at the U.S. Capitol and an FBI warning of potential armed protests at state capitols across the
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – Federal officials say a bird called the interior least tern is being dropped from the endangered species list. The small, fish-eating bird lives along rivers, lakes and wetlands in the Great Plains
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – An environmental group is challenging a recent U.S. government decision to reclassify a large scavenging beetle as threatened instead of endangered with a lawsuit. The Arizona-based Center for Biological Diversity said Tuesday it
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – One of four Texas men accused in the thefts of more than $14,000 from ATM machines in Central Arkansas has pleaded guilty to federal charges. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports James Darron Miller
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri state House on Tuesday adopted new rules to allow the public to weigh in on proposed bills virtually in response to the coronavirus pandemic.The new rule is one of several approved
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An anti-abortion group’s annual march in downtown Little Rock has been postponed over concerns about the coronavirus and potential unrest outside the Arkansas Capitol. Arkansas Right to Life announced on Tuesday it
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas State Broadband Map will allow Arkansans to pinpoint broadband providers in the state and will assist state agencies in developing broadband policy, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday in announcing the release of
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Several more companies have suspended campaign contributions to Sen. Josh Hawley in the wake of last week’s attack at the U.S. Capitol, and a political action committee of Republicans opposed to President Donald
PHOTO: Richard Barnett FAYETTEVILLE (AP) – The man identified as the rioter photographed sitting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office chair during last week’s Capitol insurrection made his initial federal court appearance Tuesday. Richard Barnett, 60, of
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas Gov Asa Hutchinson urged lawmakers Tuesday to not “retreat” from the state’s coronavirus safety measures and to enact hate crimes legislation as he delivered a State of the State address 11
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – David Clay Fowlkes, first assistant United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced Monday 34-year-old Codi Dannell Bates of Gravette has been sentenced to 32 months in federal prison without the possibility
WEBB CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former Webb City Junior High School teacher and coach has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in a child molestation case. Nicholas A. Popejoy, 29, of Arma, Kansas, pleaded guilty Monday
Photo: Delilah Collier The Arkansas AMBER Alert for a child missing in Little Rock was inactivated late Monday evening. Three-year-old Delilah Collier was located just after 11 p.m. by Little Rock officers. Photo: Dominique Phillips Authorities have
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – The Arkansas Senate rejected an effort Monday to penalize members who don’t wear face masks, as lawmakers returned to the Capitol in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.The House and Senate convened for
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) – St. Charles County’s top election official says more than 1,000 absentee and mail-in ballots in November were rejected because of mistakes by voters. St. Louis Public Radio reported Monday that Missouri’s third-largest
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson began a new term in office Monday with an inaugural ceremony marking the start of Missouri’s bicentennial celebration, but without a traditional party because of coronavirus precautions.The Republican
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Several hundred protesters gathered in downtown St. Louis to call on Republican Sen. Josh Hawley to resign over his continued rejection of Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory – even after the riot at
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A proposed ban on police chokeholds is gaining traction in the Republican-led Missouri Legislature despite years of inaction on police accountability following Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson. Republican Rep. Shamed Dogan, a leader
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Top Missouri GOP donor Sam Fox is disavowing Sen. Josh Hawley over his Electoral College challenge that became the focus of a violent siege of the U.S. Capitol. Fox said in a
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday for a legislative session overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed thousands in the state. Even before the session begins, Arkansas is tied
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – A Republican colleague rebuked him on the Senate floor. A home-state newspaper editorial board declared he has “blood on his hands.” But for Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who staged an Electoral College
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday said he wants President Donald Trump’s administration to end, but the Republican didn’t join calls for the president to resign and said impeachment wasn’t a practical
FILE – In this Jan. 6 file photo, a supporter of President Donald Trump gathers to protest in solidarity in Salem, Oregon. Statehouses where Trump loyalists have rallied since the Nov. 3 election are heightening security after
Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette was arrested Friday in Bentonville on multiple criminal charges related to his alleged unlawful activities earlier this week at the U.S. Capitol Building where he was photographed with his feet up on
MARYVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A New Year’s Eve riot carried out by offenders in a northwestern Missouri minimum-security prison was so destructive that it left part of a house unit unlivable, a state prisons official said.
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri appeals court on Friday denied St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s appeal challenging the disqualification of her office from prosecuting Mark McCloskey who, along with his wife, drew guns on racial
HARRISBURG (AP) – Two people killed in the crash of a twin-engine plane in rural northeastern Arkansas have been identified as Jonesboro residents, according to local authorities.The Monday morning crash near Weiner, about 97 miles northeast of
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – A push to finally enact a hate crimes law in Arkansas, a state with a history of white supremacists, appeared to have all the elements for success: a popular Republican governor who made
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri state colleges are getting $68 million in federal funding to fix up old buildings. Gov. Mike Parson announced the federal funding on Wednesday, along with $127 million in previously restricted state
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Helen Viola Jackson’s 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl. Bolin was also a Civil War
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – While most of his colleagues were being sworn into office at the Missouri Capitol, Republican state Rep. Justin Hill was in the nation’s capital encouraging Congress to reject President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral
Photo: Courtesy newsobserver.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Republican and Democratic Missouri leaders are speaking out against demonstrators who stormed the U.S. Capitol. GOP Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday decried the angry supporters of President Trump for
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers are back at work for what is likely to be an unusual session amid the coronavirus pandemic. The roughly five-month annual legislative session began Wednesday. Some precautions are in place
Photo: Courtesy KOLR/KOZL/KBRK SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 31-year-old man who is serving a life sentence in the 2015 murder of his girlfriend’s abusive mother is asking a judge to set aside the criminal case. Nicholas Godejohn,
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) – A man fired several shots with an assault-style rifle at a suburban Kansas City headquarters for the Missouri State Highway Patrol before he was shot and wounded by troopers, the patrol said Tuesday.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday kept on hold an Arkansas law banning abortions 18 weeks into a woman’s pregnancy and another banning the procedure from being performed because the fetus has Down
Expansion is tentatively set to be completed this month on an expansion of Berryville gunmaker Wilson Combat. The facility is set to grow by 16,000 square feet and is expected to increase its workforce by 20%. Wilson
WEST FORK (AP) – Two people were killed and two others were hurt after a crash involving five vehicles in northwest Arkansas this past weekend, according to authorities. At around 7 a.m. on Saturday, the five vehicles
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – A former school bus driver in southwest Missouri was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having sexual contact with a female student. Dennis R. Frakes, 68, was sentenced in Jasper County
HARRISBURG (AP) – Two people have died after a small plane crashed in rural northeast Arkansas, a local sheriff said.The crash happened Monday morning in a rural area of Poinsett County, Sheriff Kevin Molder told Jonesboro TV
After a 12-year run, former Republican Party of Arkansas chairman Doyle Webb is seeking higher office at the national level, according to a Talk Business Arkansas report. Webb, who led the state GOP during its historic rise
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri’s first elk-hunting season has ended with all five of the hunters selected for permits harvesting bull elk during the firearms portion Dec. 12-20. An archery portion ran Oct. 17-25 with no harvests.
Arkansas’ Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) says the new year will bring new license plates to the state. KATV reports the change isn’t about the design. Instead, it’s about the combination of letters and numbers. In
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a woman who was stabbed on New Year’s Eve in Kansas City has died from her injuries. Police spokesman Sgt. Jacob Becchina said that the woman was transported to a
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The chairman of the Missouri Veterans Commission resigned after releasing an investigative report that criticized the commission for its response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has claimed more than 140 lives at
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A man was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder after a woman and child were found stabbed to death in a Springfield home. Brandon Corbin King, 29, was arrested Thursday after
Photo: Courtesy Gregg Sweeten/McDonald County Emergency Management via Associated Press NOEL, Mo. (AP) – Donations have topped $40,000 to help rebuild a Missouri mosque destroyed by fire this week. The Islamic Society of Joplin launched a social
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas health secretary Dr. Jose Romero on Thursday extended the 11 p.m. closing time for bars and restaurants that serve alcohol for 30 days as the number of people hospitalized in the state
RALEIGH, N.C. – A national organization dedicated to supporting and promoting state parks has recognized distinguished people, projects and programs across the country for extraordinary achievements in managing state park systems, including the Arkansas Parks and Recreation
ATKINS (AP) – A 31-year-old woman fatally shot her mother and three children then turned the gun on herself at their home in western Arkansas on Christmas Day, authorities said. Investigators believe Jaquita Chase killed her four
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The eastern district of Missouri has a new U.S. attorney. Sayler Fleming was appointed by Attorney General William Barr to replace Jeff Jensen, who resigned earlier this month. Fleming took over as of
The nation’s 50 state park systems are participating in First Day Hikes to kick off the new year. Arkansas has a strong participation in this annual tradition focusing on healthy habits and lifelong memories. This year for
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas’ prisons went into lockdown because of an increase in virus cases among staff.State Corrections Secretary Solomon Graves said all non-essential movement within or between facilities will be suspended until at least Jan.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – The number of people in Arkansas hospitalized because of the coronavirus hit another new high Wednesday. The Arkansas Department of Health reported the state’s hospitalizations due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the
HOT SPRINGS (AP) – A woman and her young son have been found dead in an apartment in Hot Springs and homicide is suspected, police said Wednesday. The bodies of Shaquilla Watts, 21, and Zay’vion Watts, 5,
JENNINGS, Mo. (AP) – A former church employee has been charged with threatening to “shoot up” the church after he was asked to wear a mask, according to St. Louis County authorities. Timothy Percy Taylor, 29, was
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Police in Springfield say officers shot a woman who hit an officer with a car before fleeing. Springfield Chief Paul Williams said officers who were searching for stolen vehicles early Tuesday found one
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday extended his coronavirus emergency declaration by another two months as the state reported a record one-day spike in deaths and a new high in hospitalizations from COVID-19.
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson lauded President Donald Trump on Monday for signing into law a massive bipartisan bill that, among other things, divvies up billions of dollars for states to procure vaccines and
TUNAS, Mo. (AP) – A southwestern Missouri man is accused in the death of his infant son. KYTV-TV reports that 24-year-old Brantly Scott of Tunas has been charged with child abuse resulting in death and child endangerment.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Department of Labor said Monday it is awaiting guidance from federal authorities on implementing new legislation signed by President Donald Trump that extended unemployment benefits. The president on Sunday signed
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Five people died on Missouri roadways during the holiday weekend, with wrong-way Christmas Day accidents blamed in three of the deaths. The counting period began Thursday night and ended Sunday. A 14-year-old
OZARK, Mo. (AP) – A southwestern Missouri woman who says she loves Christmas has spread cheer by mailing about 700 holiday cards and has received more than 500 in return. Angela Grogan of Ozark says her initial
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The top federal prosecutor for the eastern half of Arkansas will be stepping down at the end of the year. U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland announced Thursday evening that he will be resigning
Photo: Courtesy KNWA A Franklin County man was arrested Wednesday by Arkansas State Police in connection with an ongoing investigation of a fatality highway crash. The crash occurred Wednesday morning in Franklin County at the 35 mile
WARSAW, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman has been charged in the shooting death of a man during a reported scuffle over a 12-gauge shotgun. Sixty-three-year-old Patrica Garvey is jailed on $200,000 bond after she was charged
LAMAR, Mo. (AP) – Two more men have been charged in a deadly July shooting in southwest Missouri. Lamar police said in a news release that Tre Ackerson, 26, of Joplin, and David Morris, 33, of Duenweg,
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal judge in Little Rock has temporarily blocked four new abortion restrictions hours after they took effect in Arkansas, including one that bans a procedure commonly used in the second trimester.
Thomas “Gary” Hudson will retire as CEO of Farmers & Merchants Bank (FMB) and The Bank of Fayetteville on Dec. 31 after leading the bank for the past 11 years, according to the instiution’s Facebook post.The incoming
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A nonviolent drug offender who argued that a change in state law should have made him eligible for parole is among nearly 30 people whose sentences were commuted or who were pardoned
DE SOTO, Mo. (AP) – A large fire at an eastern Missouri recycling plant destroyed the building and also damaged nearby homes. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the fire at the plant in De Soto burned
JONESBORO, Ark. – Nestlé unveiled Wednesday that it will invest more than $100 million to expand the company’s production facility in Jonesboro to include a new line to produce Hot Pockets® brand sandwiches. As part of the
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s tradition-bound Senate is installing an audio monitoring system in its committee hearing rooms so employees, lobbyists and the public can listen to debate in their homes or offices as the pandemic
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) – The proposed restoration of Medicaid eligibility for Marshall Islanders living in the United States would help boost overall health in northwestern Arkansas, lawmakers, health care providers and representatives of the Marshallese community said.
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – A driver was killed Tuesday when his car went off the side of a road and landed upside down in a creek, authorities say. Police responded around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, where they found
Photos: Ethan Mast (left) and Kourtney Aumen COLE CAMP, Mo. (AP) – A 4-year-old girl died after being dunked in an icy pond and beaten by two neighbors who claimed it was necessary to remove a “demon,”
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department is suing Walmart, alleging the company unlawfully dispensed controlled substances through its pharmacies, helping to fuel the opioid crisis in America.The civil complaint being filed Tuesday points to the role Walmart’s
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Police in Kansas City believe the victim of a fatal hit-and-run crash was left lying on the side of a street for more than 48 hours before he was found. No arrests
COLE CAMP, Mo. (AP) – A west-central Missouri couple face multiple charges accusing them of torturing and killing a 4-year-old girl and torturing the child’s mother and 2-year-old brother.Deputies were called just before 1 a.m. Sunday to
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield police are investigating after a 28-year-old man was fatally shot outside Taco Bell restaurant. The shooting was reported about 11:30 p.m. Monday. Officer found Malcolm James of Springfield in the parking lot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Monday pardoned more than two dozen people but has not yet identified them. Parson pardoned 24 people and commuted the sentences of three prior drug offenders
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield police believe the fatal shooting of a teenager was likely the result of an accident. Seventeen-year-old Richard Tyler Corbin was shot Friday at a home. Police spokeswoman Jasmine Bailey said detectives believe
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor Mike Parson has announced an additional $10.1 million for the A+ scholarship program, including $4.9 million in CARES Act funding and $5.2 million in supplemental funding to be proposed in the governor’s
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A former Green County sheriff’s lieutenant has pleaded guilty to stealing over $30,000 used in a ruse undercover drug operation. Allen Scott Pillow, 56, of Paragould, pleaded guilty Monday one count of theft
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – The northwest Arkansas home that Bill and Hillary Clinton first lived in as a married couple is closing as a museum, at least temporarily. Fayetteville’s Advertising and Promotions Commission decided in September to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Country singer K.T. Oslin, who hit it big with the 1987 hit “80′s Ladies” and won three Grammy awards, has died. She was 78. Oslin’s friend Robert K. Oermann said he learned of
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – A prisoners rights group filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that a Missouri jail has been mistreating its inmates, saying deputies have taunted and tortured inmates and that the jail provided so little food
EL PASO, Ark. — A bald eagle has been returned to the wild after being treated in White County for lead poisoning. Rodney Paul, director of the Raptor Rehabilitation Center at El Paso, tells KARK the bird
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Former Craighead County Clerk Kade Holliday is set to stand trial in federal court next month. The Jonesboro Sun reports in a brief hearing last week, Holliday pleaded not guilty to 11 counts
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Some Missouri Republican lawmakers want to legalize sports betting in the state. The 2021 legislative session starts at the Capitol in just a few weeks and three senators filed a similar bill to
Photo: Courtesy Air Force Civil Engineering Center Washington, D.C. – Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and John Boozman (R-Arkansas) have introduced a bill that would designate the museum at Eaker Air Force Base in Blytheville as the National
WASHINGTON – Congress is sending President Donald Trump legislation to sign into law championed by U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) that will enhance Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) care and services for women veterans. The Senate and
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Dozens of civil rights advocates, faith leaders and others on Friday urged Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to extend into next year a law allowing more people to cast their votes by mail to
DALLAS (AP) – Ten states have brought a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of “anti-competitive conduct” in the online advertising industry including a deal to manipulate sales with rival Facebook. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Democrats in the Arkansas Senate on Friday asked Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson to close bars, limit the size of gatherings and extend protections for renters in response to the ongoing surge in
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction of a Texarkana man after finding that jurors were improperly exposed to political campaigning by the case’s lead prosecutor. The unanimous ruling on
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A federal investigation has resulted in charges against four people for their alleged involvement in fire bombings of police vehicles in Little Rock and North Little Rock in August 2020. Cody Hiland, United
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The economy is improving in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states, but the region continues to lag behind where it was before the coronavirus pandemic began, according to a new monthly
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Lottery voted Thursday to ban retailers from selling more than $10,000 worth of tickets to one person in a 24-hour period. The lottery had a cap on tickets previously, but
Mike Huckabee LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Former Gov. Mike Huckabee says he is moving back to Arkansas and selling his Florida home. Huckabee, 65, on Wednesday confirmed social media reports that he is moving, saying he plans
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – David Clay Fowlkes, first assistant United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas announced that, Jonathan Terry, age 35, was sentenced Tuesday to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Gov. Asa Hutchinson received the final report from the Task Force to Advance the State of Law Enforcement in Arkansas Thursday and shared its recommendations that he intends to support during the 93rd
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) – Tyson Foods says it has fired seven top managers at its largest pork plant after an independent investigation into allegations that they bet on how many workers would test positive for the
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A high school football coach has been charged with sex crimes involving a female student that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago, Jackson County prosecutors said. Park Hill High School Coach
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri has received a $2.85 million gift to create a graduate fellowship and faculty position in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The donation comes from Sharon Langenbeck, who
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s economic development agency on Wednesday announced unemployment dropped slightly in November, but it’s still higher compared to pre-pandemic levels. Employment increased by 17,400 jobs last month, according to data from the
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri state lawmaker allegedly had sex with an intern and then threatened a staffer to keep quiet about it, according to a House Ethics Committee report released Wednesday. The Ethics Committee gave
DALLAS (AP) – Ten states on Wednesday brought a lawsuit against Google, accusing the search giant of “anti-competitive conduct” in the online advertising industry, including a deal to manipulate sales with rival Facebook. Texas Attorney General Ken
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – David Clay Fowlkes, first assistant United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Melvin Stout, age 40, of Fayetteville pleaded guilty Wednesday to making a false statement on a loan application
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo (AP) – A spokeswoman for Gov. Mike Parson says he plans to act on a few prisoner clemency cases next week. Spokeswoman Kelli Jones did not say whether the governor would reject or accept
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A U.S. Post Service worker has been indicted on charges alleging that he stole mail from customers along his Kansas City, Missouri, route and deposited the checks he found into his own
Photo: Courtesy newsweek.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri law enforcement recruits will be required to undergo training in the history of policing in minority communities. The commission that sets the training rules and approves the curriculum
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A North Carolina man was sentenced late Monday after traveling to Arkansas twice to have sex with a minor he enticed over the Internet. United States District Court Judge Brian S. Miller sentenced
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday said it won’t reconsider its decision to lift a judge’s ruling that has blocked four Arkansas abortion restrictions from taking effect, including a ban on a
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Tuesday an update to his office’s efforts to evict illicit massage businesses through the Hope Initiative. Since launching the initiative, 10 additional illicit massage businesses have either been evicted, are in
BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) – Prosecutors have charged a man accused of intentionally hitting and seriously injuring a southwest Missouri sheriff’s deputy during a high-speed police chase last week. Online court records show Seth Hay, 36, was charged
SILOAM SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) – Authorities say one person was killed and two others injured after a recreational vehicle exploded in northwest Arkansas. The explosion happened Monday in Siloam Springs, near the state’s border with Oklahoma. A
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas on Monday cast its six electoral college votes for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The state’s members of the electoral college met for about 45 minutes in the
A Mount Vernon man has harvested Missouri’s first elk in modern history, according to the state’s Department of Conservation (DOC). The state’s initial elk hunting firearm season in modern history kicked off Saturday.In a Facebook post, DOC
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor Mike Parson signed HB 14 Friday passed last week by the Missouri General Assembly during a special session on a supplemental budget. Governor Parson announced the special session in October to provide
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Mike Parson and top Republican lawmakers on Thursday said they’re expecting Missouri to bring in less money next year as the state continues to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Parson and legislative
MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 34-year-old Springfield man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a toddler in 2018. Court records show Kenneth Davis waived his right to a jury trial this week and pleaded
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Conservation Commission has given its final approval to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) for the state’s first black bear hunting season framework. The commission finalized the hunting season framework and
Photo: Chadwick Reed, suspect in a shooting at Brinkley Thursday. One person was shot and died and another was wounded at a Brinkley residence Thursday. Special agents of the Arkansas State Police (ASP) have been assigned to
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – Two women have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man who was trapped inside a burning home in Joplin, police said. Elizabeth M. Baez, 39, of Joplin, and Tiffany
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Thursday evening implored Arkansans to take precautions during the upcoming holidays as coronavirus cases surge but declined to implement any additional restrictions. “More restrictions on businesses would add a
Photo: In this June 28 file photo, armed homeowners Mark and Patricia McCloskey, standing in front of their house along Portland Place, confront protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house in the Central West End
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Police have released the name of a woman killed last weekend as she crossed a Springfield intersection. Police said in a news release that 39-year-old Marcie Brown, of Springfield, had been crossing Sunshine
LITTLE ROCK — A Little Rock woman pleaded guilty to bank fraud Thursday afternoon after fraudulently obtaining nearly $2 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans intended to provide relief for small businesses affected by COVID-19. Cody
WILLARD, Mo. (AP) – Prosecutors in southwestern Missouri have charged four people in connection with the November shooting deaths of a couple. Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Patterson announced the charges Wednesday. Alex Chute and his fiancee,
TRENTON, Mo. (AP) — A former police officer in north central Missouri has been jailed without bond after being charged with statutory rape. Mike Wilson, 25, a former officer for the Trenton Police Department, was arrested Wednesday
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its landmark ruling in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA), determining whether community pharmacies are protected from abusive payment practices.The unanimous (8
NOEL, Mo. (AP) – Thirty miles of rural Missouri separate the two churches, and so much else. One is mostly white; the other hosts services in five languages for a flock that spans the world.Still, every Tuesday
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s inaugural committee plans to postpone the traditional inaugural ball and parade and will have a scaled down swearing-in ceremony next month in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The
The Arkansas State Police is investigating a shooting incident that occurred in North Little Rock Tuesday evening. A short time before 9:45, state troopers discovered a car parked on the Interstate 40 off-ramp, leading onto U.S. Highway
POTOSI, Mo. (AP) – Fire officials say two people, including a child, died in a rural eastern Missouri house fire earlier this week. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the fire broke out Monday in a house
CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) – Butterball says it plans to cut operations at its Carthage processing plant next spring, costing about 450 jobs. The company said in a statement Wednesday the changes are intended to better align the
In a year when remote learning has become more important than ever, representatives of Entergy Arkansas and the Arkansas Department of Education announced Tuesday a $482,000 grant that will be used to develop 20 new career and
TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A former Walmart manager has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for fraudulently seeking more than $8 million in small business loans intended for coronavirus relief in Oklahoma. Tulsa authorities
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Three people died after fire in a vacant house in downtown Little Rock, authorities said. Two people died on the scene of Saturday’s fire, and a man died at the hospital Sunday,
Photo: Courtesy Republican Party of Arkansas Jonelle Fulmer of Fort Smith has been elected as the new chairwoman of the Republican Party of Arkansas. Fulmer’s election came Saturday at a state committee meeting in Benton. Talk Business
Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued statements late Friday in support of a decision earlier in the day by the U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on Arkansas’ Medicaid Expansion Community-Engagement Requirement, otherwise
LITTLE ROCK – Visitor information centers, museums, restaurants and two marinas at Arkansas State Parks will see a reduction of operating hours to efficiently manage available resources during the recent statewide increase in COVID-19 cases.”Flexibility is necessary
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) – A southwest Arkansas doctor who has been accused of overprescribing drugs has filed a motion seeking permission to practice medicine while his federal case is pending. Lonnie Joseph Parker, 55, has pleaded not
Photo: Mark Akers SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A 45-year-old Springfield man has been charged with beating a homeless man to death with a pipe. Mark Akers was charged Friday with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A Fort Smith businessman was appointed to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission on Friday by Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Hutchinson appointed Bennie Westphal to replace Commissioner Joe Morgan, who died in November.
UNION, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a 59-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in the 1986 death of an eastern Missouri woman. Kenneth Avery Jr., of Villa Ridge, was charged Tuesday in the July 1986
NEW YORK (AP) – Shoppers on Walmart.com who pay a $98-a-year membership fee will get free shipping on orders of any size starting Friday. Walmart announced the membership perk on Wednesday, doing away with a previous requirement
Jacob Kade Holliday JONESBORO (AP) – A former county clerk in northeastern Arkansas faces federal charges for allegedly embezzling more than $1.4 million of government money for personal use. A federal grand jury indicted Jacob Kade Holliday,
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A man who was sentenced to death after videotaping the sexual torture of two women before killing them has died in prison, the Missouri Department of Corrections said.Richard Davis, 56, formerly of Independence,
A 39-year-old Little Rock man was shot and critically wounded Thursday morning by a University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS) police officer. Tyrone Washington reportedly had attempted to drive away in a stolen truck that had been
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A man found dead inside a vacant business earlier this week was the victim of a homicide, Springfield police said. Officers were called around 8 a.m. Monday to a vacant business along East
PHOTO: In this Nov. 10, 2020 file photo, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaks remotely to legislators in Little Rock, Ark. At least 187 state legislators nationwide have tested positive for the virus and four have died since
REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) – Police in southwestern Missouri are investigating a death they’re calling suspicion after a woman’s body was found on a roadway in the small city of Republic. The woman’s body was found Tuesday night
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers on Wednesday passed a $1.2 billion coronavirus aid package, then left without taking action on Republican Gov. Mike Parson’s proposal to prevent lawsuits against health care workers and businesses during the
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The former owner of a skilled nursing home in Raytown, Missouri, will pay $40,000 to settle a pay discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Commission, the agency said Wednesday. Its federal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A judge has reinstated parts of a 2015 court reform law spurred by protests after the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Tuesday’s decision
The Jonesboro Police Department is reporting vehicles are being stolen out of driveways all over the northeast Arkansas city between the morning hours of 5 and 9. The department notes in a Facebook post in the last
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ revenue in November exceeded the same month a year ago as well as forecast figures, the state’s finance office said Wednesday. The Department of Finance and Administration said the state’s net
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Law enforcement officers have finished searching a section of a central Missouri river for the remains of a missing Chinese woman whose husband is charged in her death. The search of the Lamine
PHOTO: In this Nov. 5, 2019 file photo, former Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen, right, with his attorney, Kurt Altman, leave after a court hearing in Phoenix. Petersen, who admitted running an illegal adoption scheme in three
PHOTO: Dr. Shane Wilson kneels at the bedside of a patient suffering from COVID-19 inside Scotland County Hospital on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Memphis, Missouri. Wilson grew up in the area and personally knows many of
OLIVETTE, Mo. (AP) – Police say a woman has died after being caught in the crossfire of a rolling gun battle between people in two other cars on Interstate 170 in suburban St. Louis. The Major Case
Photo: Ozark National Scenic Riverways is seeking assistance to identify the person or persons suspected of recent deer poaching violations. Photo: Courtesy National Park Service VAN BUREN, Mo. – Ozark National Scenic Riverways is asking for assistance
JENNINGS, Mo. (AP) – A 14-year-old boy suspected in an attempted carjacking was shot to death by the car’s owner in suburban St. Louis, police there said. The incident happened just before 4 p.m. Sunday at a
Indoor spaces in the Missouri State Parks system are temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a website posting this past week, the state agency says Missouri state parks and historic sites remain open, including day-use
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield has reached a record number of homicides with another month still left to go in 2020. The Springfield News-Leader reports that police recently determined a fatal shooting from this summer meets the
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Police are investigating the circumstances of a motor vehicle crash that killed a Missouri man. Officers responded at 11:45 p.m. Thursday to an accident in Springfield, police said in a news release. The
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As research and development of multiple COVID-19 vaccines continue to show promising safety and effectiveness findings, Governor Mike Parson announced Wednesday the launch of a new vaccine website for Missouri residents.MOStopsCOVID.com provides Missourians
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas college student who was fatally shot in August went to meet a man for a drug deal in a campus parking lot that turned into an ambush when a gunman shot
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Wayne County man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2017 killing, the Missouri attorney general’s office said Wednesday. Joshua Oldham was convicted in
A couple married 50 years died together Monday when a tractor-trailer hit head on the SUV they were in on Interstate 55 in Jefferson County, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Authorities identified them as Leonard Wayne
PINE BLUFF (AP) – A Pine Bluff man has been arrested on suspicion of capital murder and attempted capital murder in connection with a September shooting that happened on a central Arkansas interstate, authorities said. Anthony Madison,
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities in St. Louis County say a man fatally beat a 5-year-old boy who was blind and developmentally disabled while the child’s mother was away giving birth. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that
Photo: Courtesy Stars and Stripes WINTHROP, Ark. (AP) – After nearly 80 years, the remains of a Navy sailor who died in the attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor have been returned and buried in his home state
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Another University of Missouri fraternity chapter has been closed indefinitely. Phillip Rodriguez, executive director of the Delta Sigma Phi Foundation, said in an email that the decision to close the chapter stemmed from
Photo: Courtesy Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Many Republican lawmakers in states where coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have surged are not only rejecting statewide mask mandates. They’re also resisting rules requiring them in their own
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities have arrested a man in a deadly shooting at a Springfield motel. The Springfield News-Leader reports that police said in a news release that officers were dispatched just before 8 a.m. Friday
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A man has been ordered to spend life in prison without parole for killing a transgender teen whose burned remains were found three years ago in southwest Missouri. Andrew Vrba, now 21, expressed
SALEM, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a Missouri woman was backed over and killed while kneeling near a minivan. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victim as Valeria Hopwood, of Salem. The patrol said the driver
Photo: Keshone Quantarious Smith PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas judge has rescheduled the court date of a man accused in the shooting death of a Pine Bluff detective last month.Jefferson County District Judge Kim Bridgforth
REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say law enforcement officers shot and wounded a man after a standoff in southwest Missouri. Webster County Sheriff Roy Cole says officers were called to a domestic dispute Thursday night just north
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in Missouri and across the Midwest, Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed Executive Order 20-19 extending the state of emergency in Missouri through March 31,
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas is requiring bars, restaurants and clubs that serve alcohol to close by 11 p.m. in an effort to curb a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A former northeast Missouri city clerk has been indicted on federal theft and fraud counts. Prosecutors allege 48-year-old Tracey Ray, the former city clerk of Center in Ralls County, fraudulently obtained about $317,325
Photo: St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson. Photo: Courtesy stltoday.com ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson said Wednesday that she won’t seek a second term. Krewson, a Democrat, said she made the decision after celebrating
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Mask mandates in St. Louis and St. Louis County slowed the spread of the coronavirus this summer when compared to neighboring counties that didn’t require face masks, a Saint Louis University study found.The
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A rural eastern Missouri man charged with child porn counts has also been accused by the FBI of threatening to kill the heads of various online platforms, including YouTube and Twitter. Matthew Bryan
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – A judge has dismissed a national fraternity from a lawsuit over the distribution of sexually explicit photographs of a female student at the University of Arkansas. Washington County Circuit Judge Doug Martin on
Photo: Gov. Asa Hutchinson speaking with computer science students at Wynne High School in Arkansas in this file photo courtesy medium.com. LITTLE ROCK – Enrollment in computer science courses topped 10,000 for this school term, a record
SEATTLE (AP) – A Washington state man charged in the shooting death of his mother in May turned himself into police in Arkansas earlier this week, authorities said. Redmond Police spokesperson Andrea Wolf-Buck said Charles Kramer, 35,
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Three hunters in southwestern Missouri accidentally shot themselves during last weekend’s opening of firearms deer season, conservation officials said.None of the shootings were life-threatening, the Springfield News-Leader reported. The Missouri Department of Conservation
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Republican leaders in the Missouri Senate postponed work on coronavirus aid funding Monday after numerous senators and staffers tested positive for COVID-19. Senate President Pro Tem Dave Schatz and Republican Majority Leader Caleb
ROMANCE, Ark. (AP) – A tornado in northeast Arkansas left four people injured and destroyed buildings and mobile homes, authorities said. The severe weather Sunday was near Romance, an unincorporated community about 23 miles west of Searcy,
WILLARD, Mo. (AP) – Police are investigating the deaths of a man and woman in southwest Missouri as a double homicide. Alex Chute, 28, and Brianna Sproul, 30, were found shot to death on the front porch
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A group of Arkansas neighborhoods and residents filed a lawsuit seeking to block the state from completing two interstate projects – including a $1 billion plan to widen an interstate corridor in
Photo: Samuel Appling. Photo: Courtesy Washington County Sheriff’s Office via Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – A 22-year-old man was arrested in the slaying of a man found dead after calling 911 to say his daughter’s boyfriend
Photo: Officer Travis Wallace LITTLE ROCK – Gov. Asa Hutchinson has ordered the United States flag and the Arkansas flag to be lowered to half-staff in tribute to the memory of Officer Travis Wallace, a Helena-West Helena
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal judge says Missouri is still unconstitutionally sending parolees back to prison, despite the state’s claims that it fixed systemic issues. Kansas City’s KCUR-FM on Friday reported the judge is ordering
Photo: Latarius Howard HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) – A man wanted in the fatal shooting of a police officer in eastern Arkansas has been arrested, the Arkansas State Police said Friday. Latarius Howard, 29, is in custody,
Photo: James Timothy Norman ST. LOUIS (AP) – Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced another indictment tied to the 2016 killing of a man whose grandmother’s St. Louis-area soul food restaurant was the setting for the reality show
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ governor on Thursday said the state is halfway toward the fundraising goal for replacing its statues at the U.S. Capitol with ones depicting civil rights leader Daisy Bates and country music
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Police say a man who claimed he was headed to Missouri to kill former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill was arrested in Utah. According to court documents, George William Stahl of Cottonwood Heights,
Photo: Courtesy healthychildren.org JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Governor Mike Parson, the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) announced Thursday modifications to Missouri’s K-12 school reopening and operating
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis County woman subjected her 12-year-old daughter to unnecessary medical treatments and drug prescriptions for more than a decade, according to county prosecutors. Patricia Lacoss-Arnold, 49, of unincorporated St. Louis County,
LITTLE ROCK – An Arkansas Game and Fish Commission employee has resigned while the agency was investigating the employee’s role in posting inappropriate comments on a personal social media site. AGFC Director Pat Fitts said the comments
Photo: Courtesy bellevuereporter.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Enrollment in Missouri’s public schools dropped 3.2% this school year as the education system grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. State education officials say 872,470 students are enrolled in preschool
DETROIT (AP) – Walmart is teaming up with the General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit to test driverless delivery in Arizona. The companies say battery powered Chevrolet Volt vehicles will begin deliveries in Scottsdale early next year. At
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) – Two Arkansas universities are closer to a merger after receiving approval from a regional accrediting agency. The Higher Learning Commission has approved the proposed merger of Henderson State University into the Arkansas State
Photo: Courtesy Spring River Chronicle WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Sharp County to renovate and
Photo: Courtesy Forbes The Arkansas Department of Health issued new pandemic guidelines Tuesday for the holidays and places of worship and service/civic organizations. Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced the new guidelines during his weekly COVID-19 briefing saying, “We
REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri man arrested seven times in the past for domestic assault has been charged in the beating death of a woman with whom he had a relationship, authorities said. Shane Mackey,
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Bass Pro Shops is being sued by a Louisiana seafood company that alleges the outdoor retailer did not buy enough alligator meat. Big Pop’s Fresh Louisiana Seafood alleges in a federal lawsuit filed
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) – Twenty-eight employees of the election board in one of Missouri’s largest counties have tested positive for the coronavirus in recent weeks, and a director believes they most likely got infected from voters. The
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday proposed a nearly $5.9 billion budget that calls for $50 million in tax cuts, including a tax break for new residents in the state. Hutchinson detailed his
Photo: UAMS ICU nurse Elizabeth in her PPE – personal protective equipment. PPE is one of several precautions being taken in the hospital setting to prevent the spread of COVID-19. A study by UAMS researchers has found
BUFFALO, Mo. (AP) – An extended police chase through several counties ended with the suspect exchanging gunfire with police before he was arrested. The Greene County Sheriff’s office said the chase began around 2 a.m. Saturday in
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s office said law enforcement authorities are investigating after tracking devices were placed on the vehicles of two administration officials. The devices were found on the vehicles of Drew
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Effective January 1, 2021, Missouri employers will see a reduction in their unemployment insurance (UI) taxes due to a decrease in Missouri’s UI taxable wage base (TWB). For Missouri employers, the TWB will
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has announced Southeastern Missouri has achieved a new record for adoptions. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, Missourians in the Southeast region of the state overcame these obstacles to ensure
MURFREESBORO, Ark. – It was all treat, no trick this Halloween for Steven McCool of Fayetteville at Crater of Diamonds State Park. The 34-year-old found the third-largest diamond of the year. “Arkansas is the only state in
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas State University on Friday said it will shift to mostly online instruction as new coronavirus cases are hitting record levels in the state. ASU Chancellor Kelly Damphousse announced the Jonesboro school
EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) – Voters in two south Arkansas counties have decided to keep Confederate monuments on display in public spaces. In Tuesday’s general election, voters opted to keep monuments in place outside the Union County
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Republican Mike Parson won the Missouri governor’s race on Tuesday, defeating Democratic state Auditor Nicole Galloway for the chance to serve a full term in the role he inherited when his predecessor resigned
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas won reelection Tuesday in a race that has allowed him to begin laying the groundwork for a potential 2024 White House bid. President Donald Trump secured Arkansas’ six electoral votes as
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Republican U.S. Rep. French Hill won re-election Tuesday to his Arkansas seat, overcoming a unexpectedly strong challenge from a Democratic rival. Hill defeated Joyce Elliott in the race for the central Arkansas
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A 17-year-old from St. Louis is now facing three murder charges – one for allegedly gunning down a man on the street and two more for the deaths of two alleged accomplices who
GALENA, Mo. (AP) – A replica hangman’s noose on display near voting booths in a southwest Missouri county building has been covered up following complaints from Democrats that it amounted to intimidation of black voters. The Missouri
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Three people have been charged with killing a southwest Missouri man during a burglary. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 25-year-old Riley Collier is charged in Greene County with first-degree murder in the Oct.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating the deaths of two people earlier this month in a southwest Missouri home as a possible murder-suicide. The Springfield News-Leader reports that a search warrant shows that Greene County sheriff’s
NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart has reversed course, announcing it is returning ammunition and firearms to their displays in its U.S. stores.On Thursday the nation’s largest retailer said it had removed the items from displays due to
Photo: Charles Beckham III (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) LITTLE ROCK (AP) – A Republican candidate for the Arkansas Senate who dressed up like a member of the Ku Klux Klan for a Halloween event when he was in high
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A contract instructor for the academy that trains police officers in St. Louis County has been fired for using a racial slur during a class. KSDK-TV reports that St. Louis County Police Chief
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A woman has died nearly two weeks after a hit-and-run crash at an intersection in the far north end of St. Louis, police said. Melissa Bassett, 39, of St. Louis, was driving a
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A suspect in a Jefferson County bank robbery has been arrested after police said he led officers on a chase, fired a gun at them and forced his way at gunpoint into a
Charles Paul Stovall CHEROKEE VILLAGE (AP) – An Arkansas man was arrested after confessing to injuring one woman because she was talking and fatally stabbing two other women because they stole from him, according to an arrest
COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) – An Arkansas man who exchanged gunfire with a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, an autopsy has found. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Thursday that the results of
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Attorney General Eric Schmitt has filed 24 criminal charges against an unlicensed dog breeder in southern Missouri. Schmitt announced Thursday that Marlisa McAlmond, who runs Cedar Ridge Australians in Oregon County, has
Image: Courtesy AHTD LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said a half-cent sales tax can’t be used to fund a $1 billion project widening an interstate corridor in the heart of downtown
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A federal judge refused to intervene Wednesday to keep open a Missouri lab that handled coronavirus tests for about 2,500 nursing homes in 11 states after the federal government suspended the lab for
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City, Missouri, police say a would-be robber is in custody after picking the wrong guy to victimize — a Judo champion.WDAF-TV reports that 36-year-old Josh Henges was in the Midtown area
LITTLE ROCK (AP) – An Arkansas woman is facing charges for allegedly trying to hire a man, who was an undercover FBI agent, to kill her former son-in-law to prevent him from getting custody of her granddaughter
Photo: This undated photo provided by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department shows Brian Davenport, who is arrested Monday and charged with felony stealing for allegedly taking a cellphone from a 64-year-old jogger who had collapsed on
Photo: In this Monday file photo, voters wait in line to enter the Pip Moyer Recreation Center, in Annapolis, Maryland, on the first day of in-person early voting in the state. Tens of millions of Americans already
Photo: In this Oct. 14 file photo, Mark and Patricia McCloskey leave following a court hearing in St. Louis. The St. Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters in June are asking
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Sixty people are charged in a widespread magazine telemarketing scam that authorities say netted $300 million from more than 150,000 elderly and vulnerable people nationwide. Minnesota U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald announced the charges Wednesday.
PHOTO: Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. (right) speaks during a campaign event for Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga. (left), at the Recteq facility in Evans, Georgia. Six years after being elected in an expensive and heated race, Republican Sen.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal judge on Monday rejected an effort to require Arkansas election officials to give absentee voters a chance to correct their ballots before they’re rejected due to signature issues. U.S. District
COFFEYVILLE, Kan. (AP) – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating after an Arkansas man was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after a police pursuit. Wesley Jordan, 32, of Hot Springs died in the shooting
Photos: (left to right) Aven Jackson, Nora Jackson and Donny Jackson. Photos: Courtesy U.S. Emergency Alert An AMBER Alert issued Saturday for two missing Kansas girls has been canceled. Both girls have reportedly been found safe, and
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – The Democratic candidate for Missouri attorney general made overdue property tax payments this week after being asked about them, prompting a Republican official to accuse him of lying about being qualified to run.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas man is facing felony charges after being accused by authorities of stabbing his parents because he ran out of cigarettes. The Sentinel-Record reported Friday that Carl Thomas Lane is facing
MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Two Amish brothers who were convicted of molesting a 13-year-old girl are headed to prison for 15 years for violating their probation. The Springfield News-Leader reports that a small group of anti-sex abuse
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s coronavirus diagnoses came about a week after he visited a state office building despite being warned about an outbreak among workers, emails show. The emails obtained by the St.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Police in St. Louis are looking for a man who stole a cellphone from a woman as she lay dying on a sidewalk outside Anheuser-Bush brewery. Police say the incident happened Sunday and
Photo: Courtesy Spring River Chronicle ASH FLAT, Ark. – Emerson will open a new facility in Ash Flat, where it plans to invest $35 million and create approximately 245 new jobs within four years. Talk Business and
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ attorney general on Thursday announced $6.5 million in federal and state settlements were reached with a Medicaid provider that was at the center of a corruption probe involving several lawmakers. Preferred
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri residents who want to vote by mail cannot return their ballots in person but must use the postal system, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – More than 30 sculptors applied to create statues of Little Rock Nine mentor Daisy Gatson Bates and musician Johnny Cash, which are tentatively planned to be displayed in Washington, D.C., late next
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A southwestern Missouri man has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for a road rage incident. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 30-year-old William Duval of Springfield was sentenced Oct.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas veterans cemetery nearly tripled its size with land donated from a military post, officials said. The Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock on Tuesday celebrated its 141-acre expansion,
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is calling state lawmakers back to work to give his administration the authority to dole out additional federal coronavirus aid funding. Parson on Wednesday announced the special session.
WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) – A prosecutor says a Missouri man accused of killing two Wisconsin brothers told authorities he disposed of the bodies but denied killing the men. Garland Nelson’s attorneys argued that a murder suspect cannot
LAMAR, Mo. (AP) – A former student teacher in southwestern Missouri has been sentenced to four years in prison for sending nude photographs of herself to three 13-year-old male students of hers back in 2017. Emily Edson,
SPRINGFIELD, MO. (AP) – A 17-year-old southwestern Missouri boy has died following a four-vehicle crash this weekend on U.S. Highway 65 in Springfield, police there said. Cole David Tedford, 17, of Springfield, was driving a car northbound
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri’s first licensed marijuana dispensaries opened this weekend in the St. Louis area with long lines. Two dispensaries run by N’Bliss opened Saturday in Ellisville and Manchester. Another dispensary is expected to open
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that two proposed amendments will not be removed from the general election ballot next month, upholding a lower court’s decision to dismiss the case against the secretary
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Cities, towns and counties in Arkansas may now apply for federal coronavirus relief funding, the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration announced Saturday. The department said $75 million is available to cities
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism (ADPHT), the Arkansas Economic Development Commission (AEDC), and the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) have received approval to proceed with a grant program
STUTTGART, Ark. (AP) – Three Riceland Rice employees were injured, none seriously, in an explosion at a Riceland plant in Stuttgart, according to company spokesperson Kevin McGilton. The employees suffered minor injuries that were not life-threatening in
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A group supporting Democrat Nicole Galloway’s campaign for Missouri governor has raised more than $5 million. The independent political action committee on Thursday reported it raised and spent a little more than
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Officials in the county where Little Rock is situated say more than 22,000 mail-in ballots have been sent to voters who requested them ahead of Monday’s early voting start. Pulaski County Clerk
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System wants to recover retirement benefits that continued to be paid out after two members died, resulting in overpayments of more than $323,000. Executive director Clint Rhoden told
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A majority of bankers surveyed in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states are showing more enthusiasm for the state of their local economies than they have since the coronavirus pandemic began.
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An Oklahoma tribe has sued a rival company and the Arkansas Racing Commission in an effort to stop a smaller annex casino from being built in Pope County. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that
NEW YORK (AP) – Walmart is spreading out its traditional one-day Black Friday deals over three weekends in November in an effort to reduce crowds in its stores during a pandemic. The company’s plans announced Wednesday offer
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – More people are back at work in Missouri after joblessness spiked during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. State data released Wednesday show the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped from 7% in
