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Arkansas Black Hall of Fame announces 2026 inductees

The Arkansas Black Hall of Fame announced its 2026 class ahead of its induction ceremony set for this fall.
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Memphis Families Watch SNAP Vanish While Mississippi and Arkansas Clamp Down

As summer food money hits SNAP cards, some Memphis families say it is gone almost as fast as it arrives. Residents are reporting that their Electronic Benefit Transfer accounts have been quietly drained by thieves, leaving them scrambling to cover basic groceries just as kids are home from school. The jump in complaint
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Motor vehicle incidents take three lives in Arkansas

Arkansas State Police on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 released preliminary information on three deadly motor vehicle wrecks in the state. Amy Marr, 65, of Jonesboro died Tuesday, June 9, 2026 in a single-vehicle crash on U.S. 63 north of Ravenden in Sharp County. The crash happened at 5:50 p.m. in...
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Arkansas shows slight improvement, still in bottom 10 for child well-being in Annie E....

Arkansas ranks 43rd in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual Kids Count data study, with 20% of the state's children living in poverty and one in four living in a high-cost burden household.
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Wolfe Street Foundation starts fundraiser after AC units fail amid high temperatures

A Little Rock nonprofit is raising funds to offset the cost of new air conditioning units amid near triple-digit temperatures.
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NLRPD identifies suspect, victim in deadly June 8 shooting

Investigators said 39-year-old Cecil Brooks Jr. has been identified as a suspect in 44-year-old Aaron Gilliam's death.
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Arkansas lands grant to battle deadly cattle tick disease

As cases of a deadly tick-borne cattle disease continue to spread across Arkansas, researchers with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture have received nearly $500,000 in federal funding to test potential treatments to protect cattle herds. The Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station received a two-year,
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Ozarks Notebook: Rural Cemeteries Shift in Changing Times

Cemeteries are inherently about history, filled with names and dates folks thought would never be forgotten – or so it says on the stones. For generations, those places were integrated into community life. People seemingly stayed closer to where they were from, establishing bonds that, today, aren’t quite the same as f
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The Arkansas lake we claimed as our own

In a landlocked state like Arkansas, lakes become the magnetic north of warm-weather fun. During high school, my friends and I often made the drive from Little Rock to Lake Greers Ferry, where we jumped from the bluffs into the lake. We were children on the cusp of adulthood, old enough to have cars and the freedom to
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Judge: State’s Concealed Carry Laws Pre-empt LR City Policy

Arkansas residents who are properly licensed to carry concealed weapons can do so at Little Rock City Hall after Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox on June 5 ruled that the city’s current law is unenforceable. Fox’s ruling said the city policy prohibiting anyone other than active or retired...

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