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A group of Hispanic lawmakers in Connecticut has proposed that the state follow Arkansas’ lead and ban the term “Latinx” from official government documents, calling it offensive to Spanish speakers.

Early in the year, public officials in Arkansas have introduced a flurry of initiatives fulfilling campaign promises and igniting culture wars.

An Arkansas House panel advanced legislation preventing transgender people at public schools from using restrooms that match their gender identity.

A large winter weather front has caused widespread travel delays and power outages in the Great Plains and the South, as well as a reported death in Texas.

Local driving conditions have been better than expected as of Tuesday morning, but the National weather Service warns that a heavier round of freezing rain and embedded sleet is highly

Stretching from Texas to Tennessee, the storm will continue through at least Thursday morning, affecting travel and possibly knocking out power in some areas. Thousands of flights have been disrupted.

Winter weather has brought ice to a wide swath of the United States, causing the cancellation of more than 1,700 flights nationwide, snarling highway traffic in Arkansas and seriously injuring two law officers in Texas.

Winter weather has brought ice to a wide swath of the United States, canceling more than 1,700 flights nationwide and snarling highways.

A suspect in a Green Bay, Wisconsin, double homicide that occurred this weekend was arrested Monday in Arkansas, according to authorities.

The driver has been arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired, according to a Wyoming Highway Patrol statement.

A federal grand jury has charged two law enforcement officers with civil rights violations in the violent arrest of a man outside a convenience store that was caught on video and widely shared on social media.

Two former Arkansas law enforcement officers are charged with civil rights violations in the violent arrest of a man outside a convenience store that was caught on video and widely shared on social media, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Former Crawford County sheriff's deputies Zack King and Levi White are charged in the Aug. 21 arrest of 27-year-old Randal Worcester outside a convenience store in the small town of Mulberry, about 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, near the border with Oklahoma.

Aliyah Boston collected her record-setting 73rd double double with 13 points and 14 rebounds as No. 1 South Carolina moved to 20-0 with a dominating 92-46 victory over Arkansas on Sunday.

Angel Reese had 30 points and 19 rebounds to tie a LSU record with 19 straight double-doubles and the third-ranked and unbeaten Tigers pushed their program-record winning streak to 19 games with a 79-76 victory over Arkansas on Thursday night.

A jury has heard testimony from an Arkansas man who infamously propped up his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the U.S. Capitol riot two years ago.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox voided a license given to the Cherokee Nation in 2021 to construct a casino, claiming its issuance violated the Arkansas constitution.

Huckabee Sanders argued in an executive order that the term, used to be inclusive of non-binary people, is "ethnically insensitive" and not commonly used by the Latino community.

On Tuesday, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders banned the word Latinx from all government documents in one of seven executive orders issued within hours of beginning her term.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will ban the use of the term "Latinx" in government documents — the latest in a series of executive actions on her first day.

A prosecutor says an Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the riot at the U.S. Capitol planned the trip for weeks and came prepared for violence.

An Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the riot at the U.S. Capitol planned the trip for weeks and came prepared for violence, a prosecutor said Tuesday as his trial got underway. Richard “Bigo” Barnett had a stun gun tucked into his pants when he stormed the Capitol, invaded Pelosi's office and posed for a photo that became one of the attack's more well-known images, prosecutors said. Barnett punctuated the message with a sexist expletive.

Donald Trump's former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been sworn in to follow in her father's footsteps as Arkansas governor. (Jan. 10)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been sworn in as Arkansas' 47th governor and the first woman to hold the office her father once held.

Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she wants to keep the focus on Arkansas as she prepares to take office as the state’s 47th governor.

A Catholic monastery in Subiaco, Arkansas, was vandalized, and three sacred relics were reportedly stolen by a suspect recently apprehended by local police.

Former NFL running back Peyton Hillis is reportedly in intensive care and critical condition after saving his children from drowning in the ocean.

Long-time college football head coach Bobby Petrino is joining Jimbo Fisher at Texas A&M as his offensive coordinator less than one month after accepting the same role at UNLV.

Residents are rebuilding after storms snapped light poles and uprooted trees.

Republican Arkansas Gov.-elect Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed Jacob Oliva, a senior chancellor at the Florida Department of Education, as Arkansas' state education secretary.

President Joseph Biden came under scrutiny for jetting off to St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands, for vacation while Americans battled travel chaos and freezing storms.

A former Arkansas teacher's assistant pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of the production of child pornography. He will be sentenced at a later date.

It’s become an annual tradition in the US to add some legal disputes to the holiday cheer.

Whether deep or shallow, long or short, the idea the economy is heading for a recession is pretty much the consensus view among economists.

Cave Springs Police said a baby that was just four days old is dead after it was bitten by a family's dog. Police are investigating the death but do not suspect wrongdoing.

An arrest affidavit details how a grandmother’s report of concerns for the young children in their mother's care led to the devastating discovery last week in Arkansas.

Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston shared a video of a prank call involving two Chinese restaurants on his personal Facebook page last week. In a now-deleted post, the Republican official shared a video of a man calling two Chinese restaurants on separate phones to have the two workers speak to each other, reported the Arkansas Times.

Arkansas State Police say the body of a 6-year-old boy was found buried under the floor of a house in eastern Arkansas and his mother and a man were arrested for his death.

The victim's 6-year-old sister was also hospitalized after being found injured, officials said.

A Kansas man was taken into custody and faces charges for the abduction of a 14-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Arkansas in early November.

The girl has since been reunited with her parents.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced Thursday the redirection $140 million worth of opioid settlement money toward general state revenue.

All 10 real estate markets projected to outperform the national average in 2023 are located in the Sun Belt.

A federal judge convicted Jeffrey M. Johnson for operating a paid guided tour without a permit in a national park

Members of Twitter's former 2020 election enforcement slack channel considered removing an election related-joke from the platform during the election.

Montana residents are the country's least vulnerable to identity theft and other fraud, according to a new report from personal finance website NerdWallet.

Jaylen Smith, 18, was elected mayor of Earle, Arkansas, a small town of fewer than 2,000 people, in a runoff election Tuesday.

President Biden’s student loan debt relief plan is on hold for now, leaving millions of Americans who are eligible for relief in limbo.

Jerry Jones can be seen in 1957 photo in a crowd that was blocking Black students from entering the building at a newly integrated Arkansas high school.

A flight that left Houston had to make an emergency stop in Little Rock, Arkansas after a woman tried to open the plane door at 37,000 feet and bit a passenger, media reports show.

Severe storms ripped through the South on Tuesday. Several tornadoes were reported on the ground in Mississippi and more than 25 million people were at risk for dangerous tornadoes.

A man, woman, and a 12-year-old were found shot to death in their beds Monday in northeast Arkansas. Officials described the incident as a “crime of passion” with no suspects.

An NPR analysis finds that over the past two years, state lawmakers introduced more than 300 bills targeting trans people. Most of this legislation, 86%, takes aim at the rights of trans youth.

Following an alleged assault midflight, a Southwest plane bound for Columbus, Ohio, was diverted to Little Rock, Arkansas, on Saturday.

The plane was bound from Houston to Columbus when it was diverted to Little Rock.

Harold Chilton, a World War II veteran who lives in Arkansas, celebrated his 100th birthday on Nov. 12 and recalled his time in the U.S. Marine Band, as well as the secrets of a long, happy life.

Arkansas forward Trevon Brazile was praised on Wednesday night for an incredible dunk on top of a South Dakota State player during their game.

Senior adviser to the president Anita Dunn, Sen. Tom Cotton, Rep. Jamie Raskin and more will appear on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" this Sunday.

Here's everything you need to know about LSU-Arkansas, from the point spread, moneyline, total Over/Under and insights from the FOX Sports research team.

The couple named the diamond “HIMO,” the initials of their children.

Federal investigation headed by the FBI and DEA led to the indictments of 80 individuals, many of whom are connected to two gangs in the Little Rock and Pine Bluff, Arkansas area.

Sanders served as White House press secretary for former President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders became Arkansas' first female governor with her election victory Tuesday night.

Little Rock's first popularly elected Black mayor is in the middle of a tough reelection bid four years after he promised to unite Arkansas' capital.

Donors associated with companies holding medical marijuana licenses are providing most of the funding for ballot measures that would legalize recreational marijuana in several states.

Pot is a popular topic on ballots again this election.

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene this weekend.

A Texas prison official says the 30-year-old man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of two Dallas hospital employees was on parole and had been given permission to be at the medical facility for the birth of a child.

Dallas police identified a suspect in a shooting inside a hospital Saturday morning during which two employees were killed and the alleged gunman was wounded.

An Arkansas teenager who is receiving hormone therapy says a state ban on such treatments could force he and his family to leave the sate.

The nation's first trial over a state's ban on gender-confirming care for children has begun in Arkansas.

Two Arkansas deputies who were caught on video violently arresting a suspect outside a convenience store have been fired.

Alabama reclaimed No. 1 from Georgia in The Associated Press college football poll in one of the closest votes in the recent years.

Alabama quarterback Bryce Young left the No. 2 Crimson Tide’s game against No. 20 Arkansas midway through the second quarter.

A top executive at plant-based food company Beyond Meat has been charged with felony battery after a fight outside a college football game in which he was accused of biting a man’s nose.

Former White House press secretary and Arkansas GOP gubernatorial candidate Sarah Sanders has been released from a hospital following surgery for thyroid cancer.

A man who was beaten and held down by Arkansas law enforcement officers during an arrest outside a convenience store has filed a lawsuit over the encounter.

A federal appeals court has agreed with a judge's ruling preventing the state from enforcing a ban on transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care.

Federal authorities say they have started a civil rights investigation following the suspension of three Arkansas law enforcement officers after a video posted on social media showed two of them beating a man while a third officer held him on the ground.

A Pennsylvania man was charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook.

In a story published August 19, 2022, about a Pennsylvania man being charged after allegedly attempting to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman, The Associated Press erroneously reported the spelling of the FBI Little Rock spokesman's first name.

The American Folk Art Museum, unlike many other arts institutions during the pandemic, was able to avoid layoffs and other cutbacks in the past two years through a mix of unique fundraisers and increased contributions from existing donors.

Brady Slavens’ home run to the deepest part of the park gave Arkansas the lead and the Razorbacks held on for a 3-2 win in the College World Series after Mississippi loaded the bases with none out in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Connor Noland allowed one run over 7 2/3 efficient innings, Chris Lanzilli hit a tiebreaking three-run homer and Arkansas beat No. 2 national seed Stanford 17-2 in the most-lopsided College World Series game in 34 years.

The National Governors Association says it's forming a working group of governors to come up with recommendations to stop mass shootings following the Texas school massacre.

A federal judge has sentenced reality TV’s Josh Duggar to about 12 1/2 years in prison for his conviction on one count of receiving child pornography.

City officials in Kingsland, Arkansas, discovered a bullet hole puncture in their water tower Tuesday, making it appear like the Johnny Cash etch on the structure is urinating.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says drought during the growing season has made farmers in most of Texas, all of Louisiana and parts of Arkansas and Mississippi eligible to apply for federal aid.

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A storm system spawned several tornadoes that whipped through areas of Texas and Oklahoma, causing damage to a school, a marijuana farm and other structures.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he is weighing a presidential run in 2024 and his decision won’t be affected by whether former President Donald Trump decides to join the race.

Rapper Bankroll Freddie is in an Arkansas jail after his arrest on drug and weapons charges.

Severe storms including at least two confirmed tornadoes injured people, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee.

There were 17.3 million brackets filled out in ESPN's Tournament Challenge this year, and the quest for a perfect one was done before the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.

Authorities say an inmate who escaped from a northeast Texas jail was fatally shot by an Arkansas police officer after the inmate tussled with another officer over a gun.

Aliyah Boston notched her 22nd consecutive double-double with 17 points and 14 rebounds as top-ranked South Carolina beat Arkansas 76-54 in the Southeastern Conference women’s tournament quarterfinals.

“19 Kids and Counting" father Jim Bob Duggar has lost his bid for the Arkansas Legislature.

As storms roared across five states, one of the dozens of people killed was a 9-year-old southeast Missouri girl who loved swimming, dancing and cheerleading.

Kentucky's governor says at least 74 people were killed in the state during a devastating cluster of tornadoes.

A swath of tornadoes tore through the Midwest Friday night, and Saturday’s early morning light revealed the sheer devastation left in its wake across multiple cities.

Kentucky's governor says tornadoes may have killed 70 people in the state and the death toll may exceed 100.