In 2000, a group of radical leftist students called the Campus Democracy Collective arranged to have Howard Zinn speak at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where I saw him speak for the first time, along with a couple hundred other students. Seventeen years later, Arkansas state legislator Kim Hendren (Republican) has recently introduced a bill to the Committee on Education barring any “public school district or an open-enrollment public charter school” from including...

Indian American teenagers swept to victory this month at the USA Brain Bee Championship, with Sojas Wagle, a 15-year-old sophomore at Springdale’s Har-Ber High School in Arkansas, declared the 2017 national champion of the three-day competition. The championship is held annually at the University of Maryland, according to a report on arkansasonline.com.

The state of Arkansas is struggling to find enough volunteers to witness eight death row inmate executions scheduled in April. Witnesses are required to ensure that the execution is carried out according to law, but so far volunteers are scarce. 

With a name like Crater of Diamonds, visitors to the Arkansas state park have high expectations. But for 14-year-old Kalel Langford, the dream of finding a diamond came true after just 30 minutes.

For four years, an Arkansas judge allegedly offered a secret plea deal to women who appeared in his court: have sex with him and get out of jail free. Judge Tim Parker of Carroll County, Arkansas, resigned in the final days of term last month, after an Arkansas judicial oversight group accused him of letting women out of jail without bond, or trading them cash or prescription pills, in exchange for sexual favors. Parker allegedly conducted his business over jail phones, calling women behind bars, or requesting favors from their family and friends.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a city's ordinance banning discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, but it stopped short of saying whether a state law aimed at prohibiting such local LGBT protections is constitutional. The justices reversed a judge's decision that Fayetteville's anti-discrimination ordinance didn't violate a state law prohibiting cities from enacting protections not covered by state law.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a city's ordinance banning discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, but it stopped short of saying whether a state law aimed at prohibiting such local LGBT protections is constitutional. The justices reversed a judge's decision that Fayetteville's anti-discrimination ordinance didn't violate a state law prohibiting...

A north Arkansas man is accused of head-butting his 70-year-old mother twice, according to court filings. John VanBoskirk, 34, of Yellville was arrested Tuesday on a charge of second-degree battery in the reported Dec. 31 disturbance, records show. The Marion County sheriff’s office was dispatched Dec. 31 to Baxter Regional Medical Center in reference to a reported domestic battery.

A pregnant woman's husband will have the power to stop her from having an abortion, even in cases of spousal rape, under a new law introduced in the US state of Arkansas. Most second trimester abortions will also be banned by Act 45 - the Unborn Child Protection From Dismemberment Abortion Act - which will make it possible for husbands to sue doctors who carry out abortions for civil damages, or get an injunction to block the termination. The pro-life law, which was pushed through in just two months by the state's Republican government, prohibits all dilation and evacuation...

U.S. civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil War Confederate commander General Robert E. Lee will share a common holiday on Monday in three southern states, but perhaps for the final time in one of them, Arkansas.

An Arkansas judge accused of swapping sex for reduced sentences resigned Monday after a state commission said it discovered thousands of photographs from his computer that depicted nude male defendants. In a letter to the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission, Cross County District Judge Joseph Boeckmann said that his resignation was effective immediately, and that he would never again seek a job as a local, county or state employee.

A man serving life sentences for two murders was fatally shot Thursday as he tried to escape from a high-security Arkansas prison, authorities said. Christopher Wilson was killed by two guards just before 1 p.m. at the Varner Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction, a central Arkansas prison with a Supermax facility. "Officers gave him a demand to cease his activity, and he failed to comply," said Solomon Graves, a spokesman for the department. He didn't...

NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) is projecting a moderate risk of severe weather for Wednesday from eastern Arkansas across northern Mississippi and Arkansas into western Tennessee and Kentucky, with lesser risks over a large surrounding area covering most of the nation between the Mississippi and the Appalachians.

Plans to legalise marijuana in Arkansas have been scuppered - by spelling errors and “ambiguities in text”. Arkansas Attorney General, Leslie Rutledge, said “errors of grammar, punctuation and spelling” were the reason behind her rejection of the constitutional amendment, the Associated Press reports. The proposal, written by Marry Berry, a resident of Summit, Arkansas, called for all residents to cultivate, produce, possess and use cannabis and anything produced from the plant.

Planned Parenthood has sought class action status for its Medicaid patients in Arkansas after a U.S. judge ordered the state to continue payments to three women who challenged Arkansas' move to halt payments to the organization. The filing in federal court in Arkansas on Monday could reverse the state's decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood programs in the state, lawyers for the group said on Tuesday.

More than 41,000 chickens suffocated after power was knocked out at the Cummins Unit's poultry farm, a prison official reported Monday. A tractor driver hit poles at the farm in August, resulting in a seven-hour power outage, Arkansas Department of Correction Director Wendy Kelley wrote in her monthly report to the board Monday.

Temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s and humidity that will make it feel even hotter have again prompted the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory for much of the state.

CONWAY (KATV) Authorities are investigating a shooting that happened at a local Chick-fil-a. The shooting occurred after hours and left two injured.