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1+ hour, 10+ min ago (582+ words) Bowie County'Sheriff's deputies were right back at it the week following Thanksgiving as arrests shot back up to 82 in'Texarkana'and the surrounding area. Sheriff Jeff Neal reports that BCSO deputies arrested 27, while other law enforcement agencies brought in an additional 55. Assaults & Violent Offenses Investigations & Other Incidents Drug & Contraband Offenses Theft Over $2,500 and Under $30,000-U.S. Highway 67 Simms, taken: air conditioning unit Warrant Service (Probation Violation for Unlawfully Carrying a Weapon)-North State Line Avenue Texarkana, arrested: Cortez Devonta Lewis Warrant Service (Probation Violation for Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle)-North State Line Avenue Texarkana, arrested: Johnny Lee Washington Burglary of a Building, Theft Under $2,500 with 2 or More Previous Convictions-U.S. Highway 82w Dekalb, arrested: Faith Alissa Harrell, Jeffrey Lane Wilson Theft Over $750 and Under $2,500-North State Line Avenue Texarkana, taken: $1,500 in U.S. Currency Theft Over $2,500 and Under $30,000-U.S. Highway 82w New Boston, taken: Lincoln welder Warrant Service (Bond…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago (421+ words) by Talk Business & Politics staff([emailprotected]) 6 seconds ago 0 views Gov. Sarah Sanders and Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism Secretary Shea Lewis signed Monday (Dec. 8) a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Forest Service that begins the formal process of designating The Blanchard Springs Caverns Complex as the 53rd Arkansas State Park: Blanchard Springs State Park. The memorandum of understanding lays the groundwork for a new joint management model between Arkansas State Parks and Ozark-St. Francis National Forests to enhance visitor services, strengthen cultural and environmental protections, and align federal and state investments in staffing and facilities. Since its opening in 1973, Blanchard Springs Caverns Major Visitor Center has offered two signature guided tours: the Dripstone Tour and the Discovery Trail. The Dripstone Tour leads visitors a half-mile through some of the cavern's most decorated chambers, filled with stalactites, soda straws, a…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago (357+ words) HARTSELLE, Ala. " After decades as the state's largest dry city, Hartselle is considering opening its doors to Sunday alcohol sales to attract new businesses and capture revenue currently being lost to surrounding municipalities. Mayor Missy Evans introduced the proposal during a Nov. 25 City Council meeting, framing the measure as a vital economic development tool. The ordinance would amend the existing city code to allow sales on Sundays, matching the current regulations for Monday through Saturday. "This is not the introduction of a new ordinance," Evans said. "This is a revision to the ordinance that currently stands that governs the sale of alcohol in the city." The push for Sunday sales is driven by a desire to level the playing field with neighboring cities like Decatur, Cullman, and Athens. Local business owners noted that the current Sunday prohibition often drives residents…...

3+ hour ago (1269+ words) A committee meant to monitor the EFA program's performance has not met publicly in more than a year, records show, and it has failed to produce its required annual report by its Nov. 30 deadline. The Education Freedom Savings Account Oversight Committee once met multiple times per year. But according to its public page, the last time it convened was Nov. 25, 2024, shortly before finalizing its 2024 report. In a statement Thursday, Sen. Ruth Ward, a Stoddard Republican and the chairwoman of the committee, said the five-person committee had attempted to meet this year but failed to find a time for all members to convene " particularly those from the House. "Since the end of the legislative session, we have made several attempts to schedule a meeting," Ward said. "However, the House asked representatives to avoid travel during July and August, limiting available dates…...

3+ hour, 26+ min ago (625+ words) Police in Arkansas claim a woman and her two kids were found dead after they were fatally shot just one day after she attended her final divorce hearing. Sebastian County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a call on Wednesday, December 3 around 9:30 a.m. for a welfare check at a home in Bonanza, Arkansas, according to a news release shared by the police department the following day. No one initially answered the door when police arrived. However, two workers at the property were able to let the authorities inside and they found the bodies of Charity Beallis and her two young children, according to the release. All three family members were dead upon arrival and were found with visible gunshot wounds. The children were not identified in the release, though online court documents in the divorce case listed both children as being born…...

4+ hour, 53+ min ago (356+ words) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. " Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that the state wants to name Blanchard Springs Caverns as the 53rd Arkansas State Park. The governor made the announcement from the Arkansas State Capitol on Monday, signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the US Forest Service that aims to allow the State of Arkansas to acquire the Blanchard Springs Cavern complex and create the 53rd state park." The caverns, which are located in Stone County, would be known as Blanchard Springs State Park if approved. Blanchard Springs is the second largest cave system in Arkansas. " "Since [Blanchard Springs] opened its visitor center in 1973, [it] has welcomed visitors to an experience that I believe can rival Carlsbad Caverns or Mammoth Cave National Parks," Gov. Sanders said during the press conference." The governor pointed to the "eight and a half miles of explored caverns…...

6+ hour, 8+ min ago (187+ words) A bipartisan coalition of 36 AGs sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to reject any effort to include a ban on state artificial intelligence laws in upcoming federal legislation, including reported attempts to insert such language into a military funding bill. READ MORE A group of 21 Democratic AG won summary judgment in their lawsuit to stop the implementation of an Executive Order that would effectively dismantle four federal agencies. READ MORE California AG Rob Bonta and the City of New York were joined by a bipartisan coalition of 24 AGs in sending a letter to Shopify Inc., urging the company to crack down on merchants using its e-commerce platform to sell illegal e-cigarettes and other unlawful tobacco products. READ MORE Seven Democratic AGs, co-led by North Carolina AG Jeff Jackson, sent letters to the six largest Buy-Now-Pay-Later providers seeking information…...

7+ hour, 46+ min ago (1097+ words) (The Conversation) " As disputes rage on over religion's place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require the posting of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, with Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas mandating their display in 2024 or 2025. As religion and education law researchers, we believe this situation is especially noteworthy because of its timing. In 2022, the Supreme Court adopted a new standard to assess religious freedom cases, which may come into play " and its judgments on religion's role in public education are perhaps the most religion-friendly they have ever been. Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the Supreme Court did not extend the First Amendment…...

8+ hour ago (1269+ words) A committee meant to monitor the EFA program's performance has not met publicly in more than a year, records show, and it has failed to produce its required annual report by its Nov. 30 deadline. The Education Freedom Savings Account Oversight Committee once met multiple times per year. But according to its public page, the last time it convened was Nov. 25, 2024, shortly before finalizing its 2024 report. In a statement Thursday, Sen. Ruth Ward, a Stoddard Republican and the chairwoman of the committee, said the five-person committee had attempted to meet this year but failed to find a time for all members to convene " particularly those from the House. "Since the end of the legislative session, we have made several attempts to schedule a meeting," Ward said. "However, the House asked representatives to avoid travel during July and August, limiting available dates…...

8+ hour, 12+ min ago (107+ words) Is a dollar in your pocket the same in Albuquerque as it is in New York City? The face value may be the same, but in reality that dollar just goes further in certain metro areas and states. Today's visualization shows the relative value of $100 in each U.S. state. It's based on data from GOBankingRates, which uses publicly available federal datasets such as those from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Affairs, and the U.S. Census American Consumer Survey to do the calculations. ...read more at visualcapitalist.com ~econ [1 comment] pull down to refresh...