Arkansas Advocate

01/10/2025

Thousands of Arkansans were without electricity Friday after a winter storm dropped more than 12 inches of snow over some towns and left icy conditions in others.

01/10/2025

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Friday questioned why they should intervene to block a law forcing the sale of TikTok in nine days, saying the short-form video platform’s Chinese parent company does not enjoy First Amendment rights.

01/10/2025

The Arkansas Judicial Council, which represents the state’s court system, issued a resolution Friday morning recognizing the service and dedication of 10 judiciary employees that the state Supreme Court’s chief justice attempted to fire last week.

A majority of the court claimed Jan. 3 that Chief Justice Karen Baker's attempt to fire the judiciary staff was "retaliatory."

01/10/2025

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his New York hush money case just days before his inauguration, making him the only past and future U.S. president with a criminal record.

01/10/2025

Some communicable respiratory illnesses saw a resurgence in Arkansas last year, specifically pertussis and tuberculosis, according to data from the Arkansas Department of Health.

As of Dec. 27, 15,877 Arkansas children have exemptions from vaccinations for the 2024-25 school year, according to health department data.

01/10/2025

The sensitive data of millions of American adults and children have been compromised after hackers targeted California-based education software company PowerSchool, the company confirmed this week.

The sensitive data of millions of American adults and children have been compromised after hackers targeted California-based education software company PowerSchool, the company confirmed this week. The breach happened at the end of December, and new information confirmed by TechCrunch Thursday morni...

01/10/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court late Thursday denied President-elect Donald Trump’s eleventh-hour attempt to stop his sentencing in his New York hush money trial from going forward Friday morning.

01/10/2025

U.S. Senate Republicans gained more than enough Democratic support Thursday to advance a bill that would greatly expand immigration detention, following a presidential election in which border security was a main theme for President-elect Donald Trump.

01/09/2025

Speakers at former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral Thursday, including President Joe Biden and the sons of Carter’s political contemporaries delivering eulogies written by their fathers, described the Georgia native and U.S. Navy veteran as a man committed to civil and human rights who led a courageous life of faith and service.

Mourners and dignitaries gathered at Washington National Cathedral Thursday to honor the life of former President Jimmy Carter.

01/09/2025

With inclement winter weather expected statewide through Saturday, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday declared a state of emergency and authorized $150,000 for emergency expenses.

With inclement winter weather expected statewide through Saturday, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Thursday declared a state of emergency and authorized $150,000 for emergency expenses. On Wednesday, Sanders called for the closure of state offices on Thursday and Friday except for critical operations...

01/09/2025

U.S. Senate Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump met behind closed doors Wednesday evening to plot how to enact sweeping changes to immigration, energy and tax policy, though they didn’t appear to make significant progress.

01/09/2025

For most of 2024, Arkansas was spared from the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, HPAI, also known as bird flu. In December, however, the virus was confirmed in six Arkansas backyard poultry flocks and one commercial poultry operation tested positive.

LITTLE ROCK — For most of 2024, Arkansas was spared from the spread of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, HPAI, also known as bird flu. In December, however, the virus was confirmed in six Arkansas backyard poultry flocks and one commercial poultry operation tested positive. HPAI was confirmed in ...

01/09/2025

U.S. Senate Democrats raised concerns Wednesday that Republicans have scheduled a hearing for one of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, before he completed the necessary paperwork and an FBI background check.

U.S. Senate Democrats raised concerns Wednesday that Republicans have scheduled a hearing for one of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees before he completed the necessary paperwork and an FBI background check.

01/09/2025

Arkansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Karen Baker on Wednesday declared invalid two per curiam orders her fellow justices issued in the past week, the latest development in an ongoing dispute over the scope of her authority.

"The court’s administrative authority has always been held, and was always meant to be held, by only one person,” Baker wrote.

01/09/2025

Tennessee Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen and two former police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on Wednesday condemned President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to pardon those charged in connection with the insurrection. Cohen said that in pardoning those charged with crimes on Jan. 6, Trump would be “absolving himself” and argued that the president-elect bears the responsibility for the riot.

Tennessee Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen and two former police officers who protected the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on Wednesday condemned President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to pardon those charged in connection with the insurrection.

01/09/2025

Instead of building a 3,000-bed prison in Northwest Arkansas, Sen. Bryan King proposes that the state use the roughly $400 million allocated for the project, and about $200 million more from the state’s reserve fund, to invest in new construction, expansions or renovations to jails in counties with the highest backlog of state prisoners.

Arkansas Sen. Bryan King said Wednesday the state should fund local correctional facilities instead of building a 3,000-bed prison.

01/08/2025

President-elect Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday to pause his sentencing in a New York hush money case, arguing it cannot go forward in light of the high court’s presidential immunity ruling last summer.

Trump, who is days away from his second inauguration, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Manhattan on 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records.

President-elect Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday to pause his sentencing in a New York hush money case.

01/08/2025

Lawmakers, military officials and other dignitaries celebrated the late President Jimmy Carter’s life and achievements before, during and after his White House term at a service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Tuesday where he will lie in state until Thursday.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a eulogy remarking on Carter’s career in office and humanitarian work in the decades that followed.

Lawmakers, military officials and other dignitaries celebrated the late President Jimmy Carter’s life and achievements at a service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Tuesday where he will lie in state until Thursday.