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John Wesley Downs, 62, says he was convicted on an inflated charge of spying. After 13 years, he is hoping President Trump...

Six of the seven members of the Arkansas Supreme Court were formally charged Thursday with violating the state's judicial...

Claiming potential harm to its customers, suppliers and the U.S. economy, Walmart Inc. lobbied the White House this month...

Plaintiffs behind an unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to stop an $87.3 million project to widen a section of Interstate 630 in...

Three Pulaski County cities will ask their councils to approve new curbside recycling terms that would raise customer...

Law enforcement officers from Arkansas to California spent the last week rounding up suspects in a transnational...

A former U.S. attorney from Oklahoma has kept his longstanding lobbying contract with the Missouri-based health care...

A Pulaski County Circuit judge reduced a rape suspect's bail from $250,000 to $50,000 on Thursday after questioning the...

More than 400 children with special developmental or medical needs must now find new therapeutic day care programs after...

The Windgate Charitable Foundation has approved a proposal by Arkansas State University for a $6.7 million grant to build a...

The 532-bed Maximum Security Unit near Tucker remained under a boil order Thursday, a prisons spokesman confirmed, days...

The Downtown Little Rock Partnership has expanded its ambassador program to the River Market District, meaning residents...

The push to implement video-streaming of the Arkansas Senate and its committee meetings next year bogged down Thursday as...

A 36-year-old Little Rock man accused of forcing his way into a bathroom to rape a 14-year-old girl pleaded guilty to a...

A man was sentenced in federal court Thursday to 30 years in prison on charges he made and distributed a video of himself...

Arkansas Tech University and North Arkansas College have agreed to work together to help students at the community college...

Sixty tons of material have been excavated from the Majestic Hotel site since remediation work began Aug. 28, but the city...

The Observer is a person who always needs some new adventure out there on the horizon to look forward to. A trip booked a...

The Little Rock native wants to bring a divided city together. This is the second...

In the first round of coverage losses. Governor Hutchinson announced Wednesday that 4,353...

The Observer, who knows a thing or three about anonymity, found our self nonetheless shocked by the recent New York Times...

Crystal Bridges completes the American story with "Art for a New Understanding." Is...

Film offerings come into focus. The Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, the crown jewel...

I had hoped to refrain from criticizing Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) until after his corpse was delivered to the landfill,...

The tossed year. On Sept. 27, 1958, 60 years ago this month, Little Rock decided by a vote...

And much more. Quote of the week "That's just bizarre." — Sen. Missy Irvin...

From Salty Dogs to Squirrel Nut Zippers "Middlemarch" author George Eliot claimed once...

Phantoms, elves and Frank N. Furters take the stage this fall. With the announcement...

The cultural preview for the season. 2018 fall Arkansas film preview Film offerings come into...

The subpoenas from federal prosecutors in Brooklyn suggest the authorities are intensifying an investigation into...

Proposed changes could leave the district unsettled. More than a year has passed since...

And more. Quote of the week "I cannot accept this result." — State Sen. Jason Rapert...

September is here at long last, the doldrums of summer moving toward an end. This is the time of the year when we begin...

Music, art, film, theater and more. 2018 fall Arkansas music preview From Salty Dogs to Squirrel...

Others having already said anything we could, and much more profoundly, The Observer is reluctant to chime in at this late...

I'm not claiming Jesus would be a Democrat if he lived in present-day America, but would he support the GOP? ...

The man in the middle of a massive public corruption probe gave money to dozens of Arkansas lawmakers. ...

A song for you. This is the first in a series of profiles of the candidates for Little...