DALARK, Arkansas — Dallas County officials are charging a couple following the death of a little girl who fell from a moving tractor. Sheriff Mike Knoedl announced Friday that his agency was contacted by Clark County law enforcement late Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 24, 2026, regarding an accident involving a 3-year-old child who reportedly had been riding in a tractor’s front-end loader and fell from the moving vehicle on a property in the Dalark area near the Clark/Dallas county line. The girl suffered traumatic, crushing injuries and was sent to Arkansas Children’s Hospital where she later succumbed to her injuries. Her…
From Henderson State University Henderson State University has partnered with Arkansas Weather Watchers to provide real-time weather conditions and a live camera view for the campus and surrounding community. The installation includes a 360-degree live weather camera and a separate weather station that collects and displays current temperature, precipitation, wind speed, and other essential data. The system is part of a network delivering live weather feeds across Arkansas. It is the first Arkansas Weather Watchers installation in southwest Arkansas. “Arkansas Weather Watchers is an online, community-focused weather network designed to give Arkansans real-time information and tools to understand and respond…
PHOTO: Mary Franklin, director of the Division of County Operations, Arkansas Department of Human Services listens during a media briefing on Medicaid eligibility review. At right is Mark White, secretary of DHS. | John Sykes/Arkansas Advocate By AINSLEY PLATT | Arkansas Advocate Arkansas will begin checking the employment status of some Medicaid beneficiaries this summer under what’s being billed as a “soft launch” of work requirements that aren’t set to be enforced until next year. Mary Franklin, DHS’ director of the Division of County Operations, told lawmakers Thursday that the new work requirements under the “Big Beautiful Bill” spending and…
From Arkansas State Police Arkansas State Police (ASP) Troopers have seized more than 775 pounds of illegal narcotics and arrested multiple suspects in a series of recent traffic stops across the state. On Tuesday, February 17, around 4:15 p.m., Troopers stopped a grey sedan on Interstate 40 eastbound near the 2-mile marker in Crawford County for a traffic violation. A search of the vehicle revealed approximately 45 pounds of illegal marijuana in vacuum‑sealed packages in the trunk. The passenger Jatorria Lewis, of Memphis, was arrested and booked into the Crawford County Detention Center on felony drug charges. The ride‑booking service…
In light of multiple school districts across Arkansas severing ties with Lifetouch photography over concerns that its parent company’s former owner and alleged links to the Jeffrey Epstein files, Arkadelphia Public Schools will not drop its current contract with the company
This is a roundup of felony charges filed Feb. 13-27, 2026, by the Clark County Prosecutor’s Office
The National Weather Service in Little Rock says there is increasing confidence for a wet and stormy pattern over the south-central part of the U.S. through the first few weeks of March 2026
The rising cost of Arkansas’ school voucher program has prompted concerns from Democrats and some rural Republican legislators who say it will be devastating to public schools
Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know them at the genetic level
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Power, homes, businesses, and lives were lost on March 1, 1997, but kindness proved far more superior as Arkadelphians came together to help one another through a shared crisis
Arkadelphia is the 11th Arkansas community to receive the CCI designation
Sydney was a major athlete, competing in the Special Olympics, a state bowling champion and played in Miracle League Baseball, among other sports
Holly Hope of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program will present “Flora, Fauna and Faces: Reading Cemetery Symbolism” at the March 2026 meeting of the Ouachita Chapter of the Arkansas Archeological Society
