College Student Texted His Mom Goodbye as Tornado Struck His Home
A University of Central Arkansas senior spent his final moments taking shelter in a bathroom, sending a goodbye text to his mother as a tornado bore down on his home last week.
Gunman and Three Others Killed in Arkansas Shootings
The AP reports that a man in Jonesboro, Arkansas shot six people in a home on Saturday, killing a man and a teenager and critically wounding two boys. He then fatally shot an employee at a nearby business.
An Air National Guard A-10 attack aircraft inadvertently dropped a 25-pound (dummy) training bomb around the Arkansas River last month, officials revealed. But hey, far worse things have been dropped around the Arkansas River lately.
The Arkansas Supreme Court has granted the state's request for a stay on a county judge's decision to void a new voter ID law. Arkansas and the Pulaski County Election Commission have until Friday to present their appeal in favor of the restrictions.
Ark. Judge Says "Sluts Are Just Whores In Training," and Other Stuff
Mike Maggio is a judge in Arkansas. He is also a big LSU fan. He is also the commenter geauxjudge on an LSU fan site, and he posts some peachy comments there about sluts, gays, minorities, rodeo sex fantasies, and this one time he presided over Charlize Theron's son's adoption.
Man Pursues, Shoots Teenage Girl Dead Over a Silly Teenage Prank
An Arkansas man has been charged with first degree murder and a host of other counts after tracking a carload of teens that planned to egg his house and shooting into it, killing one girl.
Woman Fired After Calling Cops on Mom Drinking and Breastfeeding
A server at Gusano's Pizzeria in Conway, Ark. says she was fired after calling the police on a woman drinking alcohol and breastfeeding her child at the same time. She's now demanding answers from her former employer.
Why Is This Man Smiling? He's Very Drunk.
Monday was not the best day of David Marshall's life. By six p.m., the 38-year-old from Jonesboro, Arkansas was so obliterated that he'd passed out in an apartment-complex parking lot and the neighbors had to call the cops. This was not a good reason to smile. So what was?
Police Kill 107-Year-Old Man in Arkansas Shootout
A SWAT team killed one of the oldest men in America yesterday after the 107-year-old man wouldn't stop shooting at police officers who were responding to a domestic disturbance call.
Man Hid Overnight in Kmart To Huff Cans of Air Duster
This past Sunday, an early morning Kmart crew in Jonesboro, Arkansas came to work, only to find a pair of unfamiliar feet sticking out of a back-room cubby hole. The store manager called the local cops, who discovered the man, Robert Pry, was a retail stowaway who'd passed out in the storage area after huffing 16 cans…
Lawmaker Leading Call for Arming Teachers Accidentally Shot a Teacher
A Republican state senator from Arkansas who is leading a legislative committee on the subject of giving guns to school teachers accidentally shot a teacher during an "active shooter" drill earlier this year, the local paper of record has uncovered.
It Is Thrilling Any Time a Child Finds a Diamond in a Sandbox
A 12-year-old boy on vacation in Arkansas with his family found an enormous diamond inside a crater at an Arkansas state park over the weekend, because apparently Arkansas has a state park where people are encouraged to just scratch around inside a giant crater for diamonds until they find them?!?!??! It’s called the…
Paralyzed Man Wakes to Find His Dog Bit Off His Testicle
An Arkansas man paralyzed from the waist down told police he awoke Monday morning to a "burning pain," only to find his dog chewing on a ball. His ball, that is.
Exxon Swears to Gosh it Doesn't Hate Your Children, Really
On the heels of ExxonMobil's really tough couple of weeks sopping up that grievous oil tar sands spill in suburban Arkansas, America's largest, most profitable corporation is now trying to stop a different leak: a novel attack-ad campaign from an environmental group.
Don't Worry, That Black Liquid Creeping Up Your Driveway and Choking Birds Isn't Technically Oil
So you live in Mayflower, Arkansas, where that ExxonMobil pipeline sighed open last Friday, and now your street's been full of a stinky dark tar slurry, like diarrhea of the gods, spitting forth a stream of Canadian tar sands crude on your crape myrtles.
Rape Attempt Staged by Man Looking to 'Impress' Love Interest with His Heroism
A man in Arkansas who sought to show off his heroic side to a love interest decided to speed up the process by staging a rape attempt while the two were on a date.
Half-Naked and Drunk Arkansas Woman Attempts to Escape Police in Toy Power Wheels Truck
Florida Man, meet Drunk, Half-Naked Arkansas Woman: sometime Tuesday, 28-year-old Jamie Craft, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, allegedly went for drunken joyride in Jonesboro, Arkansas and crashed into a mobile home. Details are still sketchy now, but at some point between the crash and the arrival of the police, Craft…
Yet Another Arkansas Legislator Is Nuts: 'If Slavery Were So Godawful, Why Didn't Jesus Condemn It?'
Three is a trend. After one Arkansas Republican lawmaker was recently caught arguing the merits of slavery and another was caught advocating death to naughty children, a third has solidified the fact that, indeed, there is a trend of Arkansas legislators spouting idiotic nonsense.
Arkansas GOP Candidate Endorses Death Penalty to Discipline Rebellious Children
Charlie Fuqua is a lawyer and former Arkansas state legislator running for reelection on the Republican ticket. He is also, it turns out, a big believer in the Biblical practice of dangling the threat of death over children's heads in order to get them to respect their parents. What a guy!
Arkansas State Rep: Slavery 'May Actually Have Been a Blessing in Disguise' for Blacks
We spend an awful lot of time condemning slavery, but have you ever stopped to think about the good it did?
