Atkins, AR

A vehicle stop conducted Wednesday afternoon, May 25th, by a Baxter County Sheriff’s Deputy has resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of drugs and the arrest of a Conway, Arkansas man. At approximately 1:22 PM Wednesday, Deputy Tanner Anderson stopped a 2006 White Jeep on State Highway...

A traffic stop in Baxter County lands a Conway man in jail on numerous drug charges.

A vehicle stop Wednesday afternoon by a Baxter County Sheriff’s Deputy has resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of drugs and the arrest of a Conway man.According to a release from the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office, at approximately 1:22 Wednesday a deputy stopped a vehicle on State Highway 126 North in the Midway area for one traffic violation and one equipment violation.The driver of the vehicle was identified as 28-year-old James Adrian Peer of Conway. The deputy detected the odor of burned marijuana coming from inside the vehicle and several air fresheners hanging inside the vehicle in an attempt to cover up the odor.

The Conway Police Department offered a $2,500 reward Wednesday in the 2018 murder of 18-year-old Jody Loring.

All three candidates who campaigned as “strong conservative voices” won election to the board of the Conway School District Tuesday. School board races in Arkansas are nonpartisan, meaning candidates do not run under any political party’s banner. Nothing, however, prevents them from describing themselves as conservatives, liberals, moderates or even apolitical.

More than 1 million Americans have died from COVID-19 – more than the total number of Americans killed in World War I and World War II combined. In the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan area, located in Arkansas, a total of 2,186 deaths have been attributed to the virus, equal to 298 fatalities for every […]

British prosecutors said Thursday they have charged actor Kevin Spacey with four counts of sexual assault against three men.

The U.S. reported over 736,000 new cases of coronavirus over the seven days ending May 24, bringing the total count to more than 82.4 million confirmed cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 994,000 COVID-19-related deaths — the highest death toll of any country. New cases continue to rise at a faster rate. In […]

Four years after a 2018 Conway murder, the mother of the Jody Lorng still searches for answers and police are also renewing calls for help in the four-year-old case.

SYRACUSE – Yvonne Rector-Martz, 87, formerly of Leesburg, passed away on May 22, 2022, in Dardanelle, Ark. She was born on April 26, 1935, in Evart, Mich., to Jess and Alice Shannon Staats. She married Orville Rector in 1951, who preceded her in 1987, and Ivan Martz, who preceded her in 2014.

CONWAY, Ark — In 2019, Arkansas saw flooding they had never seen in 100 years. The waters damaged homes and tested our levees like never before. Now, city leaders revisit the historic event to learn from the past. "I really hope I don't ever see a 2019 flooding again,"...

CONWAY, Ark. — In the wake of tragedies like Uvalde, it's easy to ask 'why' and 'what could have been done differently'-- a multitude of answers will pop up, including teachers. For longtime educator Gene Parker, it feels as though there's not enough being done to prepare future educators...