Category: Arkansas

Heavy Rains in Texas, Louisiana Add to Misery in Flood Zones

BATON ROUGE, La.—Heavy rain kept pounding parts of Texas and Arkansas before moving over Louisiana on Wednesday, adding to the misery for people whose homes and cars were flooded by an earlier drenching. The prospect of more rain wasn’t welcome in southern Louisiana, where heavy downpours earlier this week swamped vehicles and closed a major…


91-Year-Old Police Officer’s Upbeat Attitude Inspires Arkansas Community: ‘I Love People’

A 91-year-old Arkansas police officer is inspiring those around him with his upbeat work ethic and attitude of loving others. After having served in law enforcement for nearly five decades, police officer L.C. “Buckshot” Smith plans to keep on working. Despite his age, Buckshot is still on duty with the Camden Police Department, in the…


Arkansas Governor Allows Bill That Bans Agencies From Training Employees Critical Race Theory

On Monday, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, allowed a bill that prevents government agencies from training employees on divisive concepts of race and sex to become law without his signature. The law S.B. 627 prohibits agencies from teaching employees, contractors, or any other group “divisive concepts” during racial and cultural sensitivity training. These concepts include teaching…


Former Republican Joins Arkansas Race for Attorney General as Democrat

A former Republican announced on Monday that he is joining the 2022 race for Arkansas’s Attorney General as a Democrat. Jason Davis, 34, an attorney at a law firm he opened in Little Rock,Pulaski County—Davis Law Firm, which deals with small business law, family law, bankruptcy, estate planning, and appeals—said he was running to put…


Former Reality TV Star Josh Duggar Arrested by Federal Agents in Arkansas

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar was jailed Thursday after being arrested by federal authorities on charges that are not yet clear. Duggar, known for his extended family’s TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” was arrested by U.S. Marshals at his Arkansas home on Thursday afternoon and placed in federal custody at Fayetteville’s Washington…


Arkansas Governor Signs Alternative Hate Crimes Bill

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday signed what’s been deemed as an alternative hate crimes bill into state law. Arkansas SB 622, introduced as a class protection bill, requires criminal defendants to serve at least 80 percent of their sentences if it is found that they had “purposely selected the victim because the victim was a…


Arkansas Asks Supreme Court to Review Appeals Court Ruling Against Law Banning Down Syndrome Abortions

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge asked the Supreme Court late April 13 to review a decision by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals that held the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to selectively abort unborn children with Down syndrome and in the process struck down an Arkansas law. The filing came the same day as…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (April 7)

A third virus wave hits Michigan, Arkansas is the first state to ban children from having gender reassignment surgery, and Rudy Giuliani’s son may be running for New York Governor.


Former Trans Woman Praises Arkansas Law Banning Transgender Procedures for Minors

A former transgender woman praised a new Arkansas law banning transgender procedures for minors, warning against children going through irreversible changes they may regret in the future. “They end up mutilating their bodies and destroying their lives, and by the time they’re 21 or 22 years old, they wish they’d never done it,” Walt Heyer,…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (April 7)

U.S. Border Patrol arrests an illegal immigrant convicted of child sex offenses. And experts warn that some border crossers are renting children to get into the United States as family units. Arkansas is the first state to ban children from having gender reassignment surgery. But rights groups say they will fight the law in court….