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U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford has tested positive for COVID-19, his staff said Monday. -
Arkansas officials said Wednesday that they have extended into next year the deadline for applying for rental relief after little of the state's share of the federal funds for the program had been spent.
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GALENA, Mo. (AP) - Three men charged after a tourist boat sank in Missouri during a 2018 storm, killing 17 people, were in court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing to determine if the criminal case against them will proceed. -
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas judge is considering whether to strike down a state law he's temporarily blocked that bans mask mandates by schools and other governmental entities.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - David Pryor, a former Arkansas governor and U.S. senator, underwent surgery after breaking his hip and shoulder during a fall, his family said Thursday
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LITTLE ROCK Ark. (AP) - A crack in a steel beam that forced the closure of the Interstate 40 bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee for three months likely began when the span was fabricated in the 1970s and went undetected for years, a report by Arkansas' Transportation Department released Thursday said. -
Several inmates at a northwest Arkansas jail said they weren't told a medication they were given to treat COVID-19 was actually an anti-parasite drug that federal health officials have warned should not be used to treat the coronavirus. -
The report from the Pulaski County coroner in Little Rock says that Hunter Brittain, 17, was killed during a predawn June 23 traffic stop when he stepped from his truck and approached the deputy with something in his hand, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
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Connie Hamzy, a rock 'n' roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as "sweet, sweet Connie" in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit "We're an American Band," has died. She was 66. -
The number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators in Arkansas reached a new high on Monday as Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he hoped the full approval of Pfizer's vaccine would encourage more people in the state to get the shots against the virus.
