Common issues among local farmers: need of water

Arkansas' 870 area code likely will run out of numbers by late 2011, leading some companies to ask for permission to add a second area code over the same area.

Jonesboro police recovered the body of a 14-year-old boy swept away by flash flood waters early Monday morning, one of three deaths blamed on rains this weekend, authorities said.

Parkin Police Chief Dean Davidson says Robert Paul Bailey is likely on methamphetamine and is considered armed and dangerous.

Prosecutors in Washington County have charged a woman with capital murder for the beating and shooting death of her mother.

An offshore oil worker who died at a Little Rock hospital tested positive for several strains of flu, potentially meaning swine flu contributed to his death, authorities said Sunday.

An elderly Connecticut couple traveling through Arkansas have been arrested after police discovered more than 200 pounds of marijuana inside of their truck.

A conservative group says it may ask Arkansas lawmakers to block the release of petition-signers' personal information after a group posted the list of voters who signed petitions to put adoption and foster parenting restrictions on last year's ballot.

The party started early Thursday, April 23, 2009, as bikers began rolling into Helena-West Helena, Ark., to register for the ninth Wild Hog Music Festival & Motorcycle Rally. 

Covered wagon rolls through the Grand Prairie.

A measure banning absentee lobbying is headed to Gov. Mike Beebe's desk, after encountering a small roadblock in the House Thursday that led to an emergency committee meeting in the middle of the House's session.

The Senate approved a reworked bill Tuesday to merge the financially struggling Arkansas State Police retirement system's investments with another state fund but still allow the police system to have a separate governing board.

The Arkansas Senate on Monday approved legislation that bans "absentee lobbying," or lobbyists paying for but not attending drinks or meals with lawmakers.

A 5-year-old Earle boy is dead after police say he was struck by a sport-utility vehicle after running into the street.

A Senate panel on Tuesday rejected a one-year moratorium on lobbying by the state's top public servants after their terms expire, but backed a ban on so-called "absentee lobbying" and other ethics restrictions.