Dozens of homes and buildings were damaged Wednesday night as reported tornadoes and strong thunderstorms packed with hail swept across Arkansas.
A member of the state board that governs funeral directors and embalmers said he will resign after another board member accused him and others during a meeting Tuesday of conspiring to waive penalties against a Forrest City funeral director.
Suspect sought in LR bank holdup Little Rock police are seeking a 28-year-old man who they believe used a note to rob a bank in the Heights neighborhood Monday afternoon.
A former Pulaski County sheriff’s deputy dressed in a uniform with a gun on his hip displayed a sheriff’s office ID badge in an attempt to buy a blue light at a police supply store in Little Rock, according to investigators who arrested him Thursday. Investigators don’t know why former Deputy Louis Kopert Cryer, 45, attempted to purchase the light, which state law forbids anyone but law enforcement officers or county coroners from purchasing.
Man, 64, arrested in woman’s knifing A 64-year-old man was in custody Friday evening after police said he stabbed his girlfriend in the back and chased her out of their east Little Rock home, police said.
The personal information of about 35,000 current and former Arkansas National Guard members is on a lost computer hard drive initially thought to have put only a fraction of those soldiers at risk for identity theft.
LR man homeless after house burns A west Little Rock man is without a home after his house burned for more than an hour Thursday evening before firefighters were able to put it out.
A motorcyclist who minutes earlier had been pursued by a state trooper was killed Wednesday afternoon after he collided with a vehicle on Chicot Road, a Little Rock police spokesman said.
2 LR men arrested in property theft Police Thursday arrested two men they believe stole $12,000 in property, including 10 guns, from a southwest Little Rock home last week, according to an arrest report.
2 held, 1 sought in chase, gunfire Police arrested two Little Rock men and are seeking a third who they say were involved in shooting at four people as they chased them in a sport utility vehicle Wednesday afternoon, police said.