The Federal Communications Commission selected the Osceola School District for the new cybersecurity program. The school district looks to use this program to monitor the computer ...

Former state Rep. Carolina Amesty is accused of defrauding the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts, U.S. Department of Justice officials said Friday. The 30-year-old Windermere ...

A woman arrested in 2023, accused of trying to hire fellow Osceola County inmates to kill her family members and a Ninth ...

A group spoke at the Arkansas capitol on Tuesday about their opposition to the plans for an Arkansas state prison in Franklin ...

The Osceola School District recently purchased several Open Gate Security Systems. Assistant Superintendent Toshiba Pugh said ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Ever since Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Corrections announced the purchase of 815 acres of land in Franklin County for a planned 3,000-bed ...

Sen. Bryan King, R-Green Forest, presents an alternative proposal to the state's prison plan during a press conference in Little Rock on Jan. 8, 2025. (Mary Hennigan/Arkansas Advocate) Instead of ...

A four-year prison sentence for a man who sold drugs to a person who died of a drug overdose on New Year's Eve of 2021 in West Salem.

(KNWA/KFTA) — Before it was announced in October that a new prison would be coming to Charleston, more than a dozen other sites across the state were considered before Arkansas officials decided ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — There are some new developments in the state of Arkansas' controversial plan for a prison in Franklin County. At a press conference Wednesday, a state senator representing ...

The document suggests figures for a new prison that would house more inmates but add up to fewer square feet than Arkansas' current largest correctional facility. On Wednesday, Sen. Bryan King ...

As Arkansas takes steps toward building a new 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County, officials have been reticent to estimate the costs to construct and operate the facility. Reporting from the past ...