Violent Crime

The podcast "Buried Bones" uses a different angle for the true crime genre. Hosts Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes use modern investigate techniques to consider crimes from the past.

On today's show, two Fayetteville writers focus on the murder of Benjamin Burton, a prominent and beloved Rhode Island Black businessman in “A Gilded Age Tale of Murder and Madness.” JD Clayton, Fort Smith singer-songwriter is scheduled to release his debut album Long Way from Home this month. Plus, Roby Brock, editor-in-chief of Talk Business & Politics, and Rex Nelson, senior editor of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, review the beginning weeks of the state legislative session. Plus, Arkansas Attorney General reveals his wishes for criminal justice reform and more.

Two writers with deep Northwest Arkansas ties have collaborated on writing about a murder from 1885.

The U.S. Department of Justice is delivering more than $17 million dollars in “Project Safe Neighborhoods” grants to 88 federal jurisdictions, including…