Milo Strain

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Milo Strain

The Little Rock Board of Directors spent much of its Tuesday meeting trying to find a way to help the Metropolitan Housing Alliance avoid foreclosure on two apartment complexes that are home to dozens of people. The two complexes, called Madison Heights I and II, are located within the larger Madison Heights apartment complex off 12th Street and home to a number of residents now facing the possibility of being kicked out.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Milo Strain

A Sunday evening shooting at a party at Conway’s Fifth Avenue Park left two people dead and nine injured. The Conway Police Department confirmed the injury and death counts, adding that all nine injured victims were transported to hospitals and are in stable condition. Police have not named any victims or suspects and have asked people to avoid Fifth Avenue Park as they investigate.

1 week ago | arktimes.com | Milo Strain

North Little Rock Mayor Terry Hartwick is defending a city employee after a video showed the employee confronting a homeless man while brandishing a golf club. On Wednesday morning, George Mays, a homeless man, was sleeping in a tent with his girlfriend in North Little Rock’s Riverfront Park when a city employee pulled up to his tent in a city pickup truck, demanding he leave the area.

2 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Milo Strain

CAKETHURSDAY 4/17. First Security Amphitheater. 8 p.m. $45-$69.50. Bust out your “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” and travel “The Distance” to the First Security Amphitheater for Cake in concert. The genre-bending alt-rockers, known for their “staunchly trend-averse” (Billboard) attitude and whose heyday fell in the late ’90s/early 2000s, revealed last year that they’d be putting out their first new album in 14 years (no release date has been announced), so perhaps a comeback is in order.

2 weeks ago | arktimes.com | Milo Strain

The first case of measles in Arkansas since 2018 has been reported in Saline County, according to the Arkansas Department of Health. The individual with measles is unvaccinated and caught measles while traveling out of state. They visited several locations while infectious, including the Arkansas Children’s Hospital emergency department on April 8, according to a Thursday press release from the health department.