State News

Matt Melton knew he was getting to come home from Arkansas Children's Hospital Wednesday afternoon. He just didn't know he'd be coming home to more than 50 family, friends, neighbors and classmates waiting in his driveway.

A man has been sentenced to a year in prison in a plot to run a white woman and her three biracial children out of a small town by burning a cross in her yard.

Police arrested a 24-year-old woman for the slaying of a 71-year-old man in East Camden.

A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.

Authorities say one person died in the crash of a single-engine airplane in Fulton County.

Arkansas farmers could lose $225 million after heavy rain late in the growing season, state officials said Friday.

State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly $225 million.

A 19-year-old Texarkana man has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Miller County.

A former Pulaski County Special School District official has been sentenced to 10 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated.

Arkansas' Teacher of the Year is to be announced at gala in the Governor's Mansion at Little Rock.