A longstanding faculty member at Arkansas State University-Newport has received national recognition for his commitment to his students and workforce development.

Slavery bitterly divided North against South and neighbor against neighbor throughout the early history of the United States. While slavery was debated in legislatures, newspapers, and churches, countless slaves moved to escape their bondage to a life of freedom. One such incident in the ear…

Students, teachers and parents have adapted to the challenges created by COVID-19. Last year, Arkansas educators were forced to teach online in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. As classrooms were shifted to virtual learning, Arkansas Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) rose to t…

Around midnight on June 30, 1968, Kathy Ainsworth and Thomas Tarrants approached the home of Meyer Davidson in Meridian, Mississippi with 29 sticks of dynamite.

Seniors Jairus Dean and Chris Reynolds are the first recipients of the Kevin Young Memorial Scholarship.

There was an interesting moment in Washington at the end of January, on Antony Blinken’s first full day as secretary of state. Meeting with the press corps that covers the State Department, he called an independent press “a cornerstone of our democracy,” and told the assembled reporters, “Yo…

Architecture has been called “the mirror of life.” Buildings need careful design to stand the test of time and satisfy the need for which it was created. This takes imagination and a careful eye for detail. Arkansas native Edward Stone was one such architect, and his accomplishments include …

Businesses would not be penalized by state regulators for violating Covid-19 restrictions because of the behavior of their customers, under legislation passed by the Arkansas Senate.

The 838 hate groups identified in the United States by the Southern Poverty Law Center this month are broken up into categories. In Arkansas there are 14 groups.

The 2020-21 Newport Greyhound Basketball Team are Conference Champions this season after over 40 years without a title.

The man accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering Sydney Sutherland told a psychologist that he “went to work just like normal” after burying her in a rice field.

Gene Autry Morris, Jr., a native of Newport, is a newly appointed senior staff aid to U.S. Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock of Georgia.

The Newport School District held its annual spelling bee on Thursday, February 4.

Greyhound Basketball celebrated Senior Night last Thursday.

Life sometimes takes ordinary people on extraordinary adventures. J. Mayo Williams had a career that brought him from Arkansas to an Ivy League education and to the battlefields of Europe. Along the war, Williams became not only one of the charter players for the NFL, he was also a music pro…

The number of new coronavirus cases continues to decline and the number of people receiving vaccines against the disease continues to go up, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said this week.

The Southern Poverty Law Center released its annual report on hate this month.

The Senate has voted to exempt last year’s unemployment benefits from state income taxes, to help people who lost their jobs because of the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tuckerman High School students got the opportunity to tour the Be Pro Be Proud Technical Careers Truck recently.

Medical care in Arkansas has long been a difficult issue. In the nineteenth century, if one of the few doctors in the state could even reach a remote farmstead, the question was whether anything was medically possible for a patient, many of whom could not even afford a doctor’s bill. One gro…

A Senate committee advanced legislation that protects the rights of people with disabilities who need an organ transplant.

Each year, the fourth and fifth grade Gifted and Talented students at Newport Elementary, along with their teacher, Ginger Willis, spend hours working to create the elementary yearbook.

John P. Washington was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1908. He graduated from Seton Hall University in 1931 and entered Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New Jersey. He was ordained a priest in 1935. Shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he got his …

The Tuckerman Lady Bulldogs hosted White County on Monday, January 25, for a conference matchup.

Arkansas legislators are liking what they see in the “No Patient Left Behind” bills before their houses.

David Frankenberg has been named as vice president and chief financial officer of Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) and Arkansas Electric Cooperatives, Inc. (AECI) effective Jan. 1, 2021. Frankenberg replaces Michael Henderson, who is retiring after 36 years of service with AE…