Bond was set on Friday for the two men accused in the death of 56-year old Randy Daniels.

Faulkner County District Court Judge David L. Reynolds ordered 23-year old Brayland Johnson, of Conway and 20-year old Kevin West, of Little Rock to remain behind bars in lieu of $2 million bonds.

Entergy Arkansas on Friday inked an historic agreement with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups to shutter the utility’s decades-old coal-fired plants and an aging natural gas-generated facility, and replace the fossil-fuel resources with modern and cleaner power options.

Governor Asa Hutchinson announced on Friday Mary Robin Casteel as his new Chief Legal Counsel and Doralee Chandler as the new Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration, a division of the Department of Finance and Administration led by Director Larry Walther. 

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Thursday submitted the biennial budget of the Attorney General’s office for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 to the Legislature for consideration and approval. The proposed budget cuts spending 12.1 percent in fiscal year 2020 and 10.5 percent in fiscal year 2021 from the current budget, totaling more than $5.8 million in reductions.

The University of Central Arkansas will present a jazz concert featuring five separate and distinct bands on Monday, Nov. 19, at Snow Fine Arts Center Recital Hall on the UCA campus.

Holiday hours will be in effect for the Searcy Sanitation Department this week.

The Searcy Sanitation Department will be closed on Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Falling oil and gasoline prices should deliver an early Christmas present to holiday shoppers and the economy in coming weeks, lifting consumption by a few billion dollars a month, economists say.