Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NTSB Investigates Arkansas Plane Crash That Killed 5 Employees of Environmental Firm
Feb 24 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ Federal investigators headed to Arkansas Thursday to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed five employees of an environmental consulting firm. Investigators from the National...
Arkansas Challenges EPA’s Blocking of State Ozone Plan
Feb 22 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to reject its plan to comply with federal rules that are supposed to assure that the...
Arkansas Malpractice Bill Would Restrict Trans Youth Medical Care
Feb 15 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Nearly two years after Arkansas became the first state to enact a now-blocked ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Republican lawmakers are trying to effectively reinstate the ban with a...
Mayton Named to Arkansas Workers’ Comp Commission
Jan 18 2023 // Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she will appoint Michael Mayton to the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC). Mayton works as a lawyer in private practice specializing in the...
Lawsuit Filed Over Arkansas Inmate’s Malnutrition Death
Jan 18 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held in a west Arkansas jail filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming jail staff ignored his medical and mental health...
Northwest Arkansas Insurance Agent Dies in Plane Crash
Jan 12 2023 // Arkansas insurance agent Brant Barnes died in a Jan. 6 plane crash in Washington County. Barnes, 43-years old of Tontitown, was the lone occupant in the Beech, M35, fixed wing, single engine aircraft when it crashed off of...
OSHA Fines Arkansas Contractor $287K for Worker Deaths
Dec 9 2022 // Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that an Arkansas construction contractor failed to test oxygen levels in the confined space before two workers entered a sewer 20 feet below ground at an Edmond work...
People Moves: UFG Names Hirtz as Houston Branch Manager; McGriff Promotes Mitcham to Lead Arkansas Operations
Dec 8 2022 // UFG Insurance Names Hirtz Houston Branch Manager United Fire Group Inc. (UFG), based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has named Diane Hirtz the new branch manager for its Houston, Texas, office. Hirtz brings more than 25 years of...
Court Won’t Reconsider Block of Arkansas Trans Care Law
Dec 5 2022 // A federal appeals court said it won’t reconsider its ruling temporarily blocking Arkansas from enforcing its ban on gender-affirming care for children. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the state’s...
Trial Over Arkansas Youth Gender Care Ban Resumes
Nov 30 2022 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ A psychiatrist called to the stand by Arkansas as the state defends its ban on gender-affirming care for children said Monday he was concerned about the impact the law could have on some...
Court Won’t Reconsider Block of Arkansas Trans Care Law
Nov 18 2022 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal appeals court said Wednesday it won’t reconsider its ruling temporarily blocking Arkansas from enforcing its ban on gender-affirming care for children. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court...
Arkansas Voters Reject Legalizing Marijuana
Nov 10 2022 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas voters have rejected a constitutional amendment that would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state. The proposal failed six years after Arkansas voters made the state the...
Arkansas Motorcyclist’s Backpack Ignites When Officer Uses Taser
Oct 28 2022 // NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas motorcyclist carrying a gasoline-filled backpack was expected to survive after he was engulfed by a fireball when a state trooper used a Taser on him during a traffic stop,...
Arkansas Kroger Store Settles $180K Religious Discrimination Suit
Oct 28 2022 // The Kroger Limited Partnership I will pay $180,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency announced. The EEOC had filed suit on behalf of...
Trial Begins Over Arkansas’ Ban on Trans Youth Healthcare
Oct 18 2022 // The nation’s first trial over a state’s ban on gender-confirming care for children begins in Arkansas this week, the latest fight over restrictions on transgender youth championed by Republican leaders and...
Marijuana Activists Hope Biden’s Pardons Influence Arkansas Voters
Oct 17 2022 // There are few surprises expected on Election Day in solidly Republican Arkansas, where Donald Trump’s former press secretary is heavily favored in the race for governor and other GOP candidates are considered...
Ex-Health Executives Plead Guilty in Arkansas Fraud Case
Oct 3 2022 // Two former executives of a Missouri health nonprofit have pleaded guilty to their roles in a corruption scheme that ensnared several Arkansas elected officials and lobbyists, federal prosecutors said. Bontiea Bernedette...
Arkansas Machine Shop Sued for Sexual Harassment and Retaliation
Sep 26 2022 // Ranger Tool and Die, Inc. (Ranger), an industrial machine shop with locations in Paragould and Jonesboro, Arkansas, violated federal law when it failed to prevent sexual harassment at its Jonesboro location and then...
Chili’s Locations in Texas, Arkansas Sued for Sexual Harassment of Teens
Sep 13 2022 // Two Chili’s Grill & Bar Restaurants in Arkansas and Texas subjected female employees, including teens, to sexually hostile work environments in violation of federal law, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity...
Lawsuit Filed Over Violent Arrest Outside Arkansas Convenience Store
Sep 1 2022 // A man who was beaten and held down by Arkansas law enforcement officers during an arrest that was caught on a widely circulated video has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers. Attorneys for Randal Worcester filed...
