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Arkansas Colleges of Health Education program receives Insight Into Academia magazine’s Inspiring Programs in STEM Award
FORT SMITH — The Arkansas Colleges of Health Education Mentoring and Achievement Preparation (M.A.P.) Program recently received the 2025 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from Insight Into Academia magazine, a diversity and inclusion publication focused on higher education. Read More
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Jacksonville North Pulaski School District board approves new school zones to address district growth
The Jacksonville North Pulaski School District board has now approved new school zones to keep up with steady growth across the district. Read More
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Search underway for runaway Jacksonville teen
The Jacksonville Police Department has asked for the public’s help in finding a runaway 16-year-old teen. Read More
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Jacksonville police search for runaway teen
The Jacksonville Police Department has asked for the public’s help in locating a runaway teen who was last seen on May 12. Read More
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John Brown University raises $2.7 million to go with $2.5 million Mabee Foundation grant toward renovation work
SILOAM SPRINGS — John Brown University has successfully completed a $2.5 million challenge grant from the Mabee Foundation to support Project Two of the Mabee Learning Resource Center renovation. Read More
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Jacksonville man sentenced to 35 years for repeatedly molesting a 13-year-old girl
A 27-year-old Jacksonville man has accepted a 35-year prison sentence for repeatedly molesting a 13-year-old girl. Read More
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Jacksonville man arrested in connection with fatal fentanyl overdose
Pulaski County deputies on Tuesday arrested a Jacksonville man on a death by delivery charge in a fatal April fentanyl overdose, a news release from the agency states. Read More
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‘I was furious’: Jacksonville mother shares frustrations after son reportedly hurt at daycare
A Jacksonville mother has been making her voice heard in the fight to protect her son after he was reportedly hurt while at a local daycare. Read More
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Arkansas man arrested in connection with Jacksonville fentanyl death
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. – The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office reported arresting a Jacksonville man on Tuesday in connection with a Jacksonville death. Authorities said 51-year-old Scott Minor of Jacksonville was arrested in connection with a fentanyl overdose death on April 4. Records show Minor is currently held in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility. Fentanyl overdose…
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Jury finds in favor of Black public defender who sued for pay disparity, was awarded just $25,001
A Black attorney who sued the Arkansas Public Defender Commission for discrimination over what she claimed was a racially motivated pay disparity was awarded just over $25,000 Tuesday by a jury that found in her favor after deliberating for about 10 hours over two days but awarded her far short of the nearly $400,000 she…






