A new student pantry at Arkadelphia High School opened this semester, offering a grocery-style option for students facing food insecurity. The pantry stocks fresh produce, dairy products, refrigerated and frozen items, and a range of traditional nonperishable items as well. Most importantly, this pantry allows the students to choose what they need each week rather than receiving a pre-packed bag. A collaboration between Patterson Federal Credit Union and AHS counselors, teachers, and students brought this new pantry to life. Patterson Federal Credit Union’s Acorn Project, a foundation dedicated to supporting children in need in the community, launched the project and…
Clark County real estate transactions recorded Feb. 20 through March 5, 2026, having a value of $100,000 or greater. Information is gathered from public records held by the Clark County Circuit Clerk, online real estate records via actdatascout.com and the Arkansas Secretary of State. The Arkadelphian includes names of grantees, grantors, transaction price and property description available, and does not withhold names. A variety of factors, including improvements made to a home or property, are considered in real estate prices that may increase from when the seller bought the property. The top real estate sale in the past two weeks brought in…
A Central Arkansas man is set to spend the next two decades behind bars for robbing an Arkadelphia business. Rodney Nowden Jr., 39, of Shannon Hills, Arkansas was convicted in Clark County for the offense of Aggravated Robbery stemming from an armed robbery in 2024. Nowden was sentenced to a term of 20 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections with an additional 20 years suspended imposition of sentence and ordered to pay full restitution, as well as additional fines and costs. The offense involved a robbery of the Dollar General Store located at 2727 Caddo St., Arkadelphia, on Feb.…
PHOTO: Ron Addington, left, shakes hands with Bill Rogers in the moments after primary election results were announced. Rogers, the victor, will face Michael Ankton in the general election in November. | Joel Phelps/arkadelphian.com By JOEL PHELPS | arkadelphian.com Arkadelphia mechanic “Automo” Bill Rogers will head into the November general election as the Republican candidate for Clark County judge after an easy win over Ron Addington. Rogers took 73% of the overall votes in the primary election, defeating Addington in a 1,247-467 landslide. Rogers now faces a young Democratic candidate Michael Ankton for the county judge’s contest. First and foremost,…
After candidates backed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders were defeated in last week’s primary elections, Arkansas’ Republican governor is unlikely to embark on a tour of contrition similar to that of former Gov. Bill Clinton
Amid a slew of proposed changes scaling the federal government’s role in broadening assistance in federal rental programs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to rescind a 2024 regulation requiring public housing agencies and certain federally subsidized landlords to give 30 days’ notice before filing for eviction based on unpaid rent
The history of Iran, called Persia in ancient times, dates back to antiquity, but it has often been the scene of upheaval and warfare
Army veteran Bryan Norris and state Sen. Kim Hammer are advancing to a runoff later this month for the Republican nomination for secretary of state
As war shuts down shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, farmers are seeing spikes in urea and diesel prices just as planting season has begun in Arkansas
There is a lot to cover as we review Tuesday’s primary elections. We’ll start with what happened with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and three Republican state Senate races.
The following are unofficial results from the March 3, 2026, primary election in Clark County, Arkansas
A jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $250.8 million was sold in Arkansas for the March 2 drawing
The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline topped $3 Tuesday for the first time this year, and is expected to keep going up
The United States is celebrating its America250 semiquincentennial, and Arkansas is doing its part to plan the party
The Clark County Retired Teachers Association recently hosted guest speaker Cathie Ware Murphy, retired associate professor of nursing from Texarkana College
The following people have recently been booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Crittenden Street in Arkadelphia, Arkansas
The following incidents were gathered from reports filed Feb. 23 through March 1, 2026, at the Arkadelphia Police Department and Clark County Sheriff’s Office
Democratic lawmakers called Saturday for Congress to weigh in on President Donald Trump’s order launching “major combat operations” in Iran, while Republicans largely provided cautious support of the attacks
Two veteran Arkansas lawmakers are fighting for their political lives in Tuesday’s Republican primaries, with a barrage of mailers and ads funded by outside groups casting them as insufficiently conservative against challengers backed by GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Bill Kopksy, executive director of the Arkansas Public Policy Panel and representative of the Protect AR Rights Coalition, will be the featured speaker at the March 2026 meeting of Clark County Democratic Women
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
A new student pantry at Arkadelphia High School opened this semester, offering a grocery-style option for students facing food insecurity
Controversy surrounding a contract for ambulance services in Clark County will again rear its head as justices of the peace hear attorney remarks about the issue and consider an ordinance on the matter
Following a round of severe thunderstorms that swept over Arkansas late Friday into Saturday morning, the National Weather Service in Little Rock says we’re not yet out of the woods
Clark County real estate transactions recorded Feb. 20 through March 5, 2026, having a value of $100,000 or greater
