Walmart lays off hundreds of employees and requires others to relocate
Walmart on Tuesday announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant's campus offices and said it will be requiring most remote workers and personnel in its Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto offices to relocate to office hubs in Bentonville, Arkansas; Hoboken, New Jersey; and the San Francisco Bay Area.
White House apologizes to former 2024 candidate Asa Hutchinson as Biden courts anti-Trump GOP
The White House has apologized to former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson for a Democratic National Committee statement a day earlier that mocked the end of his long-shot 2024 bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
18 Houston-area residents accused of stealing $1.5M worth of narcotics from pharmacies in Arkansas
Eighteen individuals from Texas who are accused of stealing more than $1.5 million worth of narcotics from numerous pharmacies in Arkansas were arrested in Houston on November 28, 2023, following an indictment returned in the Eastern District of Arkansas.
Fox News reaches 12.8 million viewers for GOP primary debate, despite Donald Trump's absence
Fox News reached an estimated 12.8 million viewers on two television channels and its streaming network for the first GOP presidential primary debate of the 2024 season, even though former President Donald Trump skipped it.
Rural Arkansas prosecutor advocated for her pedophile uncle for years, NBC News reports
Last year, while campaigning for the top prosecutorโs job in the rural district that surrounds this close-knit river town, native daughter Jana Bradford cited a tough-on-crime record that she said had brought the worst offenders to justice and comfort to their victims.
Storms strike Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana; 7 reported dead
A monster storm system has torn through the South and Midwest, spawning deadly weather including tornadoes that shredded homes and shopping centers in Arkansas, collapsed a theater roof during a heavy metal concert in Illinois and made a fatal sweep into rural Indiana.
โBling, bling:โ 3.29-carat diamond found at Arkansas state park; largest gem found since 2021
What would you do if you found a huge diamond ring? Imagine finding over 400 in the past 16 years. Thatโs the reality for a regular visitor at Arkansasโs Crater of Diamonds State Park who recently found a 3.29-carat brown diamond.
โJesus told her to open the plane doorโ: Woman flying from Houston bit someone on flight in effort to open plane door at 37,000 feet, doc says
A woman who the FBI said forced a Southwest Airlines plane from Houston to Columbus, Ohio, to make an emergency landing in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday said in midflight that โJesus told her to open the plane door,โ court documents released Monday said.
Unruly passenger in federal custody after emergency landing on flight headed to Columbus from Houston, FBI says; Another passenger taken to hospital for treatment
An unruly passenger traveling from the Houston area caused a flight to be diverted after an incident that left another passenger in the hospital on Saturday, according to the FBI.
3 Arkansas officers suspended after video captures beating
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.