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We published earlier this week a report from the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement. It notes that Arkansas’ medical schools are now producing more graduates (401 in 2023) than the

Foundation pays off slain officers home

A national charity has paid off the mortgage of a slain Stuttgart police sergeant’s home less than one year after his death.

An Arkansas State Police lieutenant who was wounded in a gunbattle with a man who had fatally shot a Stuttgart police sergeant was named the state police Trooper of the Year for 2022 on Wednesday.

Members of the states congressional delegation Wednesday paid their respects to Arkansas law enforcement personnel who have died this year.

Members of the states congressional delegation Wednesday paid their respects to Arkansas law enforcement personnel who have died this year.

In what would be his last regularly scheduled Pine Bluff City Council meeting, council member Ivan Whitfield ended the night with more of a frown than a smile as city employees walked out in the middle of the meeting after a failed attempt by Whitfield to give employees raises and bonuses.

It was an emotional day in a small Arkansan town as friends and family said goodbye to Sergeant Donald Scoby, who was killed in the line of duty just last week.

Photos of Sgt. Donald Scoby with his wife Amanda and family members line a table Monday in the Grand Prairie Center at Stuttgart where his funeral was being held. Scoby, a member of the Stuttgart Police Department, was killed in the line of duty on Wednesday night. (Pine Bluff Commercial/Eplunus Colvin)

Arkansas State Police confirmed that an officer in Stuttgart has died following a fatal overnight shooting that left one other person injured.