Brett Barrouquere

3 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Brett Barrouquere

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. A former police chief serving prison time for murder and rape appears to have left Arkansas, the U.S. Marshals Service said, basing that conclusion on "credible information" and a failure to find him in the week since his escape. There have been two unconfirmed sightings of 56-year-old Grant Matthew Hardin in the last week, one in Faulkner County near Conway and the other in Missouri, Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert J.

4 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Brett Barrouquere

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Arkansas State Police obtained cellphone data from four major carriers with towers near the North Central Unit prison in Calico Rock, covering five days around when former police chief Grant Matthew Hardin walked away from the facility.

5 days ago | arkansasonline.com | Brett Barrouquere

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. CAVE CITY -- Mosquitoes and other bugs buzz around inside the Cave City home of Janet and Max Mize, slipping in behind the blue tarps that were once windows and a roof. Outside, a bit more than two months after tornadoes ripped through the area, construction workers replace broken pieces of the outer walls, measure for new window frames and generally try to get the house back to a more livable condition.

1 week ago | arkansasonline.com | Brett Barrouquere

Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. The state of Arkansas' lawsuit against the social media site TikTok can go forward after the state Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a bid to hear the case. The high court said issues raised by TikTok and it's parent company, ByteDance, to halt the suit and take the case on an expedited basis can be brought later in legal proceedings as part of a regular appeal of the trial judge's rulings.

1 week ago | nwaonline.com | Brett Barrouquere

The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission adopted a 2.5% royalty payment to mineral rights owners in southern Arkansas for lithium extraction. The 9-0 vote Wednesday settles a years-long dispute between landowners and Standard Lithium over how much mineral rights holders should get when the valuable mineral is pulled from brine on their land. The decision came after a four-plus hour hearing at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia.