Aaron Gilkey News Today

A man accused Saturday of shooting his estranged wife, a MEMS dispatcher who died of her wounds Wednesday, was released from jail on bond about a week before the shooting following his arrest on charges of rape and assault against her, court documents show.

Arkansas temperatures this week will continue in the near triple-digits, with the heat index soaring around 110, due to a "heat dome" expanding across the Southern part of the country.

By Brendan O’Brien and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A fierce tornado blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas, and adjacent towns on Friday, ripping away roofs and walls from many buildings, flipping over vehicles, and leaving at least two dozen people hospitalized. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital, the region’s only major trauma center, declared a level-1 mass casualty alert after the tornado struck Little Rock, the state’s capital and most populous city, at mi...

A fierce tornado has blasted through Little Rock, Arkansas and adjacent towns, killing two people, injuring dozens, ripping...

A violent tornado tore down the roof of an Illinois theatre during a heavy metal concert on Friday night, killing one and hospitalizing 28 more after a series of violent twisters tore through the US.

A roof collapsed during a heavy metal concert in the US state of Illinois as tornadoes spawned by a monster storm hit multiple states across the south and Midwest, killing at least three people.

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital, the region's only major trauma center, declared a level-1 mass casualty alert after the tornado struck Little Rock, the state's capital and most populous city, at mid-afternoon. No deaths were reported from the twister, spawned by one of a number of thunderstorms sweeping a vast swath of the U.S. heartland as part of a much larger expanse of extreme spring weather.

An immense blast of extreme spring weather is sweeping much of the US. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Aaron Gilkey has been hired as media and relations coordinator at Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services in Little Rock.