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A former deputy director of the state Department of Human Services has been named executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, the advocacy group announced Thursday.

Children confined to our states 13 psychiatric residential treatment facilities endure hundreds of instances of abuse, neglect, over-medication and other forms of mistreatment that create an unsafe environment, according to findings in a database updated by Disability Rights Arkansas (DRA) designed to shed light on such dark deeds.

Arkansas is one of two states that will refuse federal funding available for the second phase of pandemic Emergency Rental Assistance as Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared the economic climate robust enough that it was no longer needed.

Arkansas is one of two states that will refuse federal funding available for the second phase of pandemic Emergency Rental Assistance as Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared the economic climate robust enough that it was no longer needed.