JONESBORO – Arkansas State University’s Department of Theatre will kick off its 2022-23 season with “Gruesome Playground Injuries,” a dark comedy that follows the lives of two best friends’ tumultuous relationship and lives as they come together over 30 years. With great compassion and humor, Pulitzer Prize-nominated Rajiv Joseph crafts [read more…]
JONESBORO – Improving on-campus safety through enhanced lighting and increased numbers of cameras enters its final phases at Arkansas State University with the completion of the third and fourth phases of a four-year project. With the start of the fall 2022 semester, new lighting in the parking lots for first-year [read more…]
by Antoinette Grajeda, Arkansas Advocate Arkansas has received more than $2.5 million from three opioid distributors as part of a national $26 billion settlement. The payment is the first of $216 million the state will receive under the agreement through annual payments over 18 years. State and local officials still [read more…]
JONESBORO – Arkansas State University has announced the list of students who completed degree requirements to graduate at Summer Commencement, held Aug. 12 in First National Bank Arena. The list includes graduates from 38 states and 11 other countries. Provost Allan Utter presented diplomas at the associate, bachelor, master, specialist [read more…]
JONESBORO – As the annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 gets underway this week at Arkansas State University, students are planning several activities continuing into October. “Hispanic Heritage Month is one of my favorite times of year because it is a month dedicated for us to celebrate a variety [read more…]
Q+A session with northeast Arkansas natives who made film to follow JONESBORO, Ark. – The Arkansas Cinema Society will kick off the fall spooky season with a screening of the Arkansas-made feature film Ghosts of the Ozarks, a tale of suspense set in post-Civil War Arkansas, on Sept. 22, 2022 [read more…]
JONESBORO — INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine has named Arkansas State University among 104 institutions of higher education selected to receive the 2022 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. The 2022 award marks the fifth consecutive year for Arkansas State’s selection, the only university in the state of Arkansas to [read more…]
Little Rock, Ark. – Be Well Arkansas, a program of the Arkansas Department of Health’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Branch has created and launched the new Coral’s Reef campaign to reach younger Arkansans with tobacco and nicotine prevention messaging. This campaign is the only one of its kind available in [read more…]
Monday, September 26: 7:00 REWIND BAND ARKANSAS Richard, Randy, Darrell and Bob make up the four-piece band REWIND playing their mix of classic country and rockabilly. Tuesday, September 27: 7:00 Griff the Drifter Nine-year old Griffin Evans, “Griff the Drifter”, is a fourth grader at Trumann Elementary School. He got [read more…]
A shooting incident has become a homicide investigation after a victim was shot Saturday night at the Links Apartments in Jonesboro. He later died. Derrick Kentrail Leonard, 19, was shot and later died during surgery, Sally Smith with the Jonesboro Police Department confirmed to NEA Report on Sunday. The call [read more…]
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