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Two Arkansas schools celebrated state volleyball championships this week, with Mount St. Mary claiming the Class 5A title and Fountain Lake capturing the Class 3A crown. For the first time since 1993, Mount St. Mary won a state volleyball championship after outlasting Valley View in a five-set thriller. The Belles defeated Valley View 3-2 behind […]

Little Rock police are investigating after a shooting Sunday morning left one person dead and several others injured.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) Program will host three overnight camps this hunting season specifically designed to introduce women to deer hunting, and applications for the first two hunts are available now. “The deer camps are for women who have never deer hunted as...

A Springdale-based cancer center has quietly expanded its clinical-trial program, growing its research program from roughly 70 trials to nearly 150 over six years while opening a new $4 million trials suite built to handle the surge. Highlands Oncology Group, based in Springdale, Arkansas, now employs 60 full-time researchers and occupies nearly an entire floor of its new $30 million Springdale facility.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Six people were injured in a shooting near Dickson Street in Fayetteville early Sunday morning, according to information confirmed by police. Authorities received a call at 1:41 a.m. reporting shots fired on West Avenue. All six people suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and no suspect had been identified as of the latest update. […]

Eli Drinkwitz and the No. 23 Missouri Tigers left Fayetteville on Saturday night with a 34-10 win over the Arkansas Razorbacks, their fifth straight in the Battle Line Rivalry, and Drinkwitz had one more jab ready for his hosts on the way out. Missouri improved to 6-2 and 3-2 in SEC play and is now […] The post Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz Takes Savage Shot at Arkansas After Blowout Win appeared first on Gridiron Heroics .

Police arrested an Elmhurst resident on trespassing charges at a local bar, only to uncover seven outstanding warrants during the booking process.

ALTON – The 109th Alton Halloween Parade had a new, furry addition to its lineup this year. On Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026, Powers Highland Haven and Harris Farm Highlands came together to walk with Children’s Tribe Montessori Academy from Godfrey. These organizations had several Highland cows dressed in costumes, making them one of the most popular groups in the Halloween parade lineup.

Health Care Service Corporation, known as HCSC, is shrinking its Medicare Advantage footprint for 2027 to 478 counties in 24 states, down from 948 counties in 30 states and Washington, D.C. HCSC is the parent of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Montana. About 127,000 of its roughly 800,000 Medicare […]

A Corinth flood advisory went out before dawn Sunday after thunderstorms dumped 1.5 to 3 inches of rain on parts of Alcorn, Prentiss, and Tishomingo counties in about three hours. The National Weather Service in Memphis issued the advisory at 4:18 a.m. and kept it in effect until 7:15 a.m., warning of minor flooding in low-lying and poor-drainage areas around Corinth and Booneville.