A flash flood that killed 20 people last year in southwest Arkansas was caused by as much as 4.7 inches of rain falling in the upper Little Missouri River watershed in three hours. The findings are part of a U.S. …
A lawsuit filed by a former Heifer International executive has been dismissed with the parties reaching a mediated settlement. Arkansas Business reported Monday that the Little Rock-based charity and former vice president Rafal Laski came to terms over Laski’s claim …
Authorities say a 2-year-old boy wasn’t hurt when a man who may have been involved in a killing crashed his car during a police pursuit. Officers told KLRT-TV they were investigating an unrelated case on Monday when they heard a …
In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi …
North Little Rock fire officials say a weekend fire at a storage unit facility has caused $1 million in damage to recreational vehicles and a boat and $35,000 to the building. Firefighters responded to the blaze on Northshore Drive about …
Morrilton, Ark., has reached an agreement with a clean-up company to remove debris from downtown buildings that collapsed in May, killing a 2-year-old girl. Little Rock television station KTHV reports that the Morrilton City Council agreed Monday to a bid …
Arkansas law doesn’t allow the mother of a slain Little Rock news anchor to proceed with a privacy lawsuit against a hospital and three workers whom she accused of illegally looking at her dead daughter’s medical files, a circuit court …
Floods, drought and other nasty weather have made all of Louisiana – and 27 adjacent counties in Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas – an agricultural disaster area for 2011. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says its declaration is based on combined …
The U.S. Geological Survey says no fracking fluid has been found in domestic water wells in the Fayetteville Shale area of Van Buren County, Arkansas. The fluid is a byproduct of hydraulic fracturing – or fracking. It’s a process of …
A former Texarkana, Arkansas, teacher was awarded $500,000 in a discrimination lawsuit and is to get her old job back. The Texarkana Gazette reports that Andrea Johnson claimed she was wrongly fired for allegedly giving answers to a math exam …