LOTTO Jackpot Climbs to $491,000 LITTLE ROCK – The Powerball® jackpot continues to grow and now stands at an estimated $700 million for tonight’s drawing. The jackpot has a cash value of $335.7 million. Wednesday’s drawing, which will be for the fifth largest Powerball jackpot in its 30-year history, is [read more…]
Little Rock, Ark. — The Union Pacific Community Ties Giving Program awarded the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, or ASPSF, a $7,000 Grant to create the 2023 Union Pacific Scholarship Project. The project will fund scholarships and wraparound services for 10 single parent students in Camden, Hope, Hoxie, Jonesboro, Little [read more…]
An Agatha Christie mystery takes the stage starting in November, as the Downtown Playhouse in Pocahontas presents “The Mousetrap.” Tickets are now on sale for the production, which opens Nov. 5 and is scheduled to run through Dec. 3. “The Mousetrap” is set at Monkswell Manor, a country inn on the outskirts of [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. – A case of alleged abuse involving a child with cuts, bruises, and swelling all over his body was reported to police on Monday in Jonesboro. Most of the report is masked but it was taken Monday afternoon by authorities after a social worker at the Nettleton School District [read more…]
JONESBORO, Ark. – Authorities are looking into what happened that cased a 4-month-old baby to have a broken left tibia. The Arkansas Department of Human Services referred the case to the Jonesboro Police Department, who opened the investigation Monday morning. The report, which is mostly masked, indicates the incident happened [read more…]
Police took reports of several sex crimes over the weekend in Jonesboro. Many details, such as addresses, are masked in these reports by police to protect the victims. Here is everything we know: The first incident was reported Friday night shortly before 11 PM. The report says an unknown suspect [read more…]
Authorities received reports of multiple incidents involving gunfire over the weekend in Jonesboro. A suspect reportedly shot a victim’s vehicle with a pistol Friday night. It happened at about 10 PM at the 2500-block of East Johnson, at an apartment unit address. Police responded to a shots heard call and [read more…]
The Paragould Police Department responded to three serious, unrelated incidents on Tuesday, October 18. Updates on all three were given today. OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING – S. ROCKINGCHAIR RD At approximately 7:14 a.m. on Tuesday, October 18, Paragould Emergency Services received a call for service regarding an unwanted person at a [read more…]
West Memphis, Ark. – Police arrested a suspect after a woman was murdered this weekend in West Memphis. At 2:34 AM Sunday morning, officers responded to the BP gas station located at the corner of West Broadway and South Avalon in reference to a person being shot, police said in [read more…]
Jonesboro, Ark. – Martin Lilly and Charlene Davidson—deputy prosecuting attorneys—prosecuted 62-year-old Charles Antles Devine for the 2016 strangulation death of Stacey Devine. Thursday evening, a Craighead County jury found Devine guilty of second-degree murder. And the circuit court followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Devine to the maximum 30 years [read more…]
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