— JOHN BECKHAM, the adoptive father and coach of the nation’s top high-school football recruit, Dorial Green-Beckham, a wide receiver, discussing the decision on where he will play college football next year. Green-Beckham will announce his decision on Wednesday morning, National Signing Day for recruits, and it is largely thought he is choosing between Missouri [...]
Monday night, cosmic lights illuminated the nighttime skies, sweeping across the nation from the very northern Canadian border to the southern states of Arkansas and Alabama, and to the eastern and western coasts.
Three Arkansas men, imprisoned for nearly two decades, were freed on Friday as a result of a plea deal reached in their conviction of murdering three Cub Scouts in 1993. Damien Echols, Jesse Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, known as the “West Memphis Three,” were tried and found guilty in the deaths of Stevie Branch, Michael [...]
Kymberly Wimberly, a black 18-year-old from McGehee, Arkansas, says she had the highest G.P.A. in her graduating high school class and should have been the school’s sole valedictorian.
In Georgetown, Ark., KARK 4 News reporter Adam Rodriguez spotted an SUV drowning in floodwater and jumped into action to rescue the driver.
Thunderstorms and tornadoes are a complicated recipe. But this is one batch that’s been continually whipped up in the past few weeks.
“I’ve lived here for more than 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. I saw water 2 to 3 feet deep across roadways that have never flooded.” – STEVE WILKES, a Fayetteville, Ark., resident speaking about the flooding (via CNN)
A churning, deadly storm system is poised to continue pounding the south-central U.S. for at least another day, before shifting its energy to the East Coast. Nearly 40 percent of the nation now lies in its path.
Something wicked this way comes. Deadly storms that hit Oklahoma and Arkansas Thursday night, killing six people, are on the move.
The first temblor hit at 11:00 p.m. Sunday night, and the quaking continued through the night with three substantial aftershocks.
