Arkansas Blog

LRSD board map revamp approved

A new state legislation forcing Arkansas school districts with less than 20,000 students to shrink their boards to five or seven members prompted the ...

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Friday open line

Over to you. It’s dragon-slaying time! The Arkansas Times, which relentlessly defends the fundamental rights and liberties in our community, stands as a light ...

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Tens of thousands urge firing of Arkansas state trooper after viral video

After a video of Arkansas State Police trooper Holly Romero pulling over and arresting a lady last month who said her dog was dying ...

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Game on! Marcus Jones joins the race for DPA chair

The Democratic Party of Arkansas’s next chair will be Marcus Jones, a retired Army colonel and former congressional candidate, who announced his intention to ...

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West Memphis Three murder evidence to undergo DNA testing, 30 years later

The West Memphis Three are one step closer to receiving some answers that they believe will clear their reputations, more than three years after ...

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State police make arrest in Devil’s Den killings

A 28-year-old man from Springdale has been taken into custody by the Arkansas State Police in relation to the double homicide that occurred at ...

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Will the Supreme Court restore Voting Rights Act protections in Arkansas and other 8th Circuit states?

By continuing to weaken the authority of the Voting Rights Act, or VRA, a 60-year-old pillar of federal civil rights legislation, the 8th U.S. ...

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Wolf in Queen Anne’s clothing: Beware the poison hemlock

Attention, wildflower foragers: poison hemlock, which resembles Queen Anne’s Lace, is rife in the wild. Probably most known for being Socrates’ preferred elixir after ...

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O.G. FOB: Carolyn Staley reflects on more than 60 years of friendship with Bill Clinton

For fifteen-year-old Carolyn Yeldell, Bill Clinton was just the boy next door long before he rose to prominence in Arkansas and outside politics. In ...

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Stacey Abrams joins Arkansas author to talk about racial justice and family ties in the Delta 

Walter Pryor, a native of Arkansas, joined Democratic sensation Stacey Abrams at the Clinton Presidential Center on Wednesday to talk about his biography, in ...

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