2 Murder Suspects On The Run After Arkansas Jail Break
May 28 (Reuters) - Authorities in southwestern Arkansas have launched a manhunt for two murder suspects who escaped from jail before dawn on Monday ...
May 28 (Reuters) - Authorities in southwestern Arkansas have launched a manhunt for two murder suspects who escaped from jail before dawn on Monday ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- Arkansas is not barred by the Constitution's double jeopardy clause from retrying a man for murder even though the first jury had announ...
The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.22.2012
Army reservist Tom Cotton appears positioned to defeat Beth Anne Rankin, an aide to former-Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), in Tuesday's House Republican Prima...
AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 05.17.2012
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A newlywed was being held on a murder charge Wednesday after his pregnant wife staggered into a western Arkansas police stat...
AP | Posted 05.15.2012
FORT SMITH, Ark. -- An Arkansas man accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online is slated to go on trial this summer after authorities found h...
AP | Posted 05.09.2012
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Arkansas authorities say a woman who was allegedly held against her will and tortured before escaping went with her alleged ...
Nicole Glass | Posted 05.03.2012
The end of a racist nation cannot just come from an integration of races in schools, the workplace and politics. It must come from a very personal change in perception. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed the law, but it's the people that change a culture.
Posted 04.18.2012
He's armed -- and sort of dangerous. An Arkansas man used a pair of hot dog tongs to threaten a convenience store employee and customer during a fa...
Dr. Stephen Schoonmaker | Posted 04.17.2012
Despite these challenges don't start writing rural America's epitaph quite yet. New opportunities are emerging in a rural America primed by resurgences in rural higher education.
AP | KURT VOIGT | Posted 04.13.2012
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas says Jessica Dorrell, the 25-year-old football department employee whose affair with former football coach Bobby Petrin...
Posted 04.11.2012
The extent of the relationship between ex-Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino and 25-year-old female Arkansas employee Jessica Dorrell was further i...
AP | KURT VOIGT | Posted 04.12.2012
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino went out of his way to refer to his relationship with Jessica Dorrell in the past tens...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2012
-- The statement issued Tuesday night by fired Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino: "I was informed in writing today at 5:45 p.m. that I was being...
AP | KURT VOIGT | Posted 04.06.2012
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas put football coach Bobby Petrino on paid leave Thursday after he failed to disclose he had been riding with a fema...
HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- In 2005, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for minors no matter how heinous the crime. In 2010, the justices drew the same line...
Phineas Baxandall | Posted 05.20.2012
Transparency in government expenditures promotes fiscal responsibility, checks corruption, and bolsters public confidence in government. We need more of it.
Rick Steves | Posted 05.20.2012
had never been in a dry county before. The human craving for alcohol creates interesting challenges here.
AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 05.13.2012
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A 9-year-old girl was responsible for the shooting death of her 7-year-old brother at the family's Arkansas apartment while ...
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.28.2012
"Jubilant. Such a thrilling project for my whole family and it was quite and emotional high. I didn't want to feel sad on his birthday. Even though there was poignancy, and a sense of missing him, it was celebratory. He would have loved this project."
AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 02.22.2012
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A convicted rapist accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday,...
Posted 02.06.2012
For those familiar with the remote and quiet beauty of the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas, the sudden appearance of the Crystal Bridges Museum of Americ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- The race for the Arkansas' third congressional district took a gruesome turn on Sunday, when the campaign manager for Democratic challen...
AP | Posted 03.24.2012
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Authorities in Arkansas were searching Sunday for a suspect wanted in a homicide and kidnapping case involving a distant rel...
Joshua Kors | Posted 03.18.2012
"One of the great ironies of this three-film, two-decade mission is that we thought we were making a film about bad children, the inside story of why kids kill."
Posted 01.11.2012
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day highlights the fact that it's no longer possible to have a "not in my backyard" attitude about modern-day sla...
Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012