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17 Jul 2024 Trojans welcome huge swimming and diving class
LITTLE ROCK – The Little Rock swimming and diving team has officially added 10 swimmers and two divers for the 2024-25 season, a huge boost to a talented team that has shown tremendous progress following head coach Nathan Townsend‘s first season and has begun to rebuild nicely under diving coach Chris Pape, who now has two years under his belt with the program.
Jacksonville man dead after being struck by train, authorities investigating
JACKSONVILLE, Arkansas — Jacksonville police are currently investigating after a a man was fatally struck by a train on Thursday. According to authorities, the incident happened around 7:50 p.m. near South Spring Street. Once on the scene, officers located the victim identified as Jimmy Flennoy. Reports say that Union...
North Little Rock Police Department investigating officer involved shooting
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The North Little Rock Police Department is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred early Friday morning. At 12:14 a.m. on Friday morning, an officer with the North Little Rock Police Department conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of East Washington Ave. and Birch St., police said in a release.
Arkansas mother claims LISA Academy did not follow son’s IEP, pulled him from school activities
An Arkansas mother says she relied on a local school to provide the extra steps to help her child with special needs be able to learn only to see the school not make the grade.
Arkansas Wildlife Weekly Fishing Report
Jeff Moore from Batesville caught this 25-inch brown trout and released it after the photo was taken to fight another day. He caught it earlier this week, just upriver of Jenkins Fishing Service dock in Calico Rock. The water was in perfect shape at this time, but by midweek, flooding in north Arkansas had caused the river at Calico Rock to rise to 18 feet. In other spots, overflowing water wrecked some trout docks and caused significant damage.
Tax free weekend in Arkansas 2024 | When it is & list of tax-exempt items
ARKANSAS, USA — It's about that time again — summer is fading and the first day of school is just around the corner. For many families in Arkansas, that means back-to-school shopping. According to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration, the weekend begins exactly at 12:01 a.m....
Arkansas Attorney General warns about scam callers posing as law enforcement
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said there is an uptick in scam callers pretending to represent law enforcement in order to wrangle money from unsuspecting victims.
Arkansas baseball had the third-most players drafted in the MLB Draft, 8 total
The 2024 MLB draft ended yesterday, with many Arkansas players getting their chance at the pros. Although the Diamond Hogs‘ season and climatically — a 5-9 record in the last 14 games — Arkansas produced eight draft picks, tying for third for the most players drafted. The first of which was Hagen Smith.
Pine Bluff mother awaits son's headstone two years after purchase
PINE BLUFF (KATV) — At just 17-years-old, Tristian Harris lost his life to gun violence in Pine Bluff. His mother, Jornetta Shaw, said she never got to see him walk across the stage to graduate high school. "That was my last one to see out of 5 kids to...
UAPB sees 65 percent increase in applications for fall semester
As the upcoming school year approaches at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff school administrators say they're seeing a rise in applications and it's something the university says they haven't seen in the past decade.
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