Arkansas News

Arkansas reports 587 more COVID-19 cases, 5 more deaths 04 Jul 2020 21:36 The Washington Times LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas on Saturday reported 587 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus and five additional deaths. The Arkansas Department of Health said the state’s total number of reported cases is now at 23,209. The state now has 286 reported …
LEGAL: Arkansas Citizens Can Photograph Public Documents Under FOIA 04 Jul 2020 21:09 Huntington News Citizens who request access to public documents under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act have the right to photograph those documents using their cellphones, the Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. By a 5-1 decision, the appellate court sided …
Northwest Arkansas Education Service Cooperative prepares for change in leadership 04 Jul 2020 14:35 Arkansas Democrat Gazette FARMINGTON -- Charles Cudney takes a broad perspective when asked about the greatest challenge he's faced during 44 years in education. "I think on a personal level, it's learning to be the same professional every day for all of the people …
Arkansas updates career, tech education plan 04 Jul 2020 14:24 Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Arkansas is starting the 2020-21 school year with a greatly refreshed career and technical education plan that is an overhaul of a plan that dates back to at least 2008 and really decades before that. The revised career and technical education plan that …
Zoo closed by COVID-19 case 04 Jul 2020 14:23 Arkansas Times The Little Rock Zoo closed Friday because a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. From the zoo: A staff member at the Little Rock Zoo has tested positive for COVID-19 and out of an abundance of caution the City of Little Rock and the Zoo announced …
Real people: Tom Cotton version 04 Jul 2020 14:23 Arkansas Times are you a giant wheel of cheese https://t.co/ciByClyFeY — Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) June 26, 2020 This column from a Washington Post satirist is a little dated, but amusing. She suggests, by Cotton’s standards, that maybe Arkansas shouldn’ …
Trump’s statue garden: The monument campaign is underway 04 Jul 2020 14:23 Arkansas Times The White House just sent out the text of the executive order. It creates a task force to recommend how and where to create this new garden. And it specifies the statues that should be in the park (including Antonin Scalia): pic.twitter.com/fGjFbr4JtQ …
UAMS looks to improve school meals in Northwest Arkansas 04 Jul 2020 12:35 Arkansas Democrat Gazette FAYETTEVILLE -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is ramping up efforts to ensure students in Northwest Arkansas have access to healthy food at school. The university's Northwest campus plans to work with six school districts -- beginning …
Arkansas mom says daughter was kicked out of daycare for wearing Black Lives Matter shirt 04 Jul 2020 11:45 Daily Mail Arkansas mom claims six-year-old daughter was kicked out of Christian daycare center for wearing Black Lives Matter T-shirts after she was told they 'didn't agree' with the 'racist' tops Deval Brockman claims her daughter Journei, six, …
An Arkansas celebration 04 Jul 2020 08:28 Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette During the decade I worked in the governor's office, the Fourth of July was always a work day. I would climb on an airplane early in the morning with the governor, and we would head to northeast Arkansas for the Fourth of July events at Portia in …