A former Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office Deputy and School Resource Officer is behind bars following an investigation that stemmed from a domestic disturbance call at his home on Jennifer Lane.

34-year old Matthew David Kimery was arrested on Tuesday and faces charges of battery, false imprisonment and rape.

A Thursday evening traffic accident in Lawrence County claims two lives.

Arkansas State Police say 37-year old Latosha Coker, of Cleveland, Ohio and a minor were killed when her vehicle crossed the center line on US Highway 412 East in Walnut Ridge and struck another vehicle head-on.

The Arkansas Economic Development Commission announced today it has received $65,000 for its Division of Rural Services Unpaved Roads Grant Program. The funding was made possible through the Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation with private funds that were contributed by the now dissolved Arkansas Water Foundation.

Federal agents were at a fish experiment station in Kelso on Thursday trying to determine if it could be used as an immigrant detention facility, according to a tweet issued by U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro. The facility is only a few miles from the Rohwer War Relocation Center, an internment camp that held thousands of forcibly removed Japanese Americans during World War II.

State lawmakers and others working to overhaul the state’s cumbersome tax code applauded an almost-split decision issued Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court that could allow Arkansas and other states to collect sales taxes from online retailers.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge welcomed a new class of law clerks for the first summer session to the Attorney General’s office. These law students work in various departments assisting with legal research, drafting memos and legal documents and accompanying lawyers at trials, client meetings and hearings.