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Arkansas Online
April 2, 2018
Pulaski County is working with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock for its unit, but McElfish pointed to the center's nearby Psychiatric Research Institute. She said the Northwest region doesn't have a similar facility. "Additionally, the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees hasÃâà...
Arkansas Online
April 2, 2018
Every county in Arkansas is now part of a landmark lawsuit that seeks relief from opioid manufacturers after Pulaski County, the last holdout, agreed to join the case last week. The county is still retaining two law firms to pursue its own case against people and companies that marketed, prescribed or soldÃâà...
5newsonline.com
April 2, 2018
HOT SPRING COUNTY (KFSM) — An Arkansas State Trooper has been shot in Hot Spring County Sunday (April 1) night, according to the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office. Not a lot of information at this time, but a Trooper has been involved in shooting near Malvern.… https://t.co/lKZIo7sjqt.
U.S. News & World Report
April 2, 2018
Pulaski County has agreed to join a lawsuit seeking relief from dozens of opioid manufacturers, and the addition of the lone holdout means every Arkansas ... The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Pulaski County is still retaining two law firms to pursue its own case against people and companies thatÃâà...
Texarkana Gazette
April 2, 2018
LITTLE ROCK—Pulaski County has agreed to join a lawsuit seeking relief from dozens of opioid manufacturers, and the addition of the lone holdout means every Arkansas county is now involved in the legal fight. The lawsuit was originally filed March 15 in Crittenden County Circuit Court. More than 50Ãâà...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
April 2, 2018
The new superintendent will run a school district that includes some of the wealthiest and some of the poorest areas of metropolitan Little Rock on both sides of the Arkansas River and is made up of the cities of Maumelle, Sherwood and parts of Little Rock and Shannon Hills, as well as smaller communitiesÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 20, 2018
Pulaski County is accepting donations for its new 100 Suits program, which will provide professional clothing for young men in under-served communities. Created by Jamie Scott, the county's youth services director, the countywide program will help boys and young men ages 11 to 19 make positive firstÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 7, 2018
Pulaski County will host a veterans benefits fair March 24. The fair will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. inside the ... Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare SystemCQ and the Department of Veterans Affairs will help veterans sign up for benefits and make claims, the release states. Veterans are asked to bring theirÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 6, 2018
File - This file photo provided by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office in Little Rock, Ark., shows Joseph Boeckmann, who has pleaded guilty in federal court to accusations that he gave lighter sentences to defendants in exchange for nude photos and sexual acts. Court filings ahead of his sentencingÃâà...
THV 11
March 6, 2018
He appeared in Pulaski County District Court and was released on $5,000 bond, according to the Arkansas Attorney General's Office. The five are accused of fraudulently billing for services not rendered and for providing false information for the purpose of requesting payment from a health plan, totalingÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 6, 2018
Michael Blake of Little Rock knows he's ill-equipped to handle all the phone calls he's been getting. Blake, 36, works for Arkansas Cleaning & Televising. He's not a firefighter, nor can he remember ever setting foot in McAlmont, an unincorporated Pulaski County community north of the Arkansas River.
Arkansas Online
March 4, 2018
Arkansas voters approved the term extensions in November 2016. Justices of the peace, who make up the county's legislative body -- the Quorum Court, are still elected for two-year terms. The Pulaski County sheriff, a position that oversees the county's law enforcement arm and the most populated countyÃâà...
KARK
March 2, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (News release) – The Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau (LRCVB) has released its 2017 annual report, reflecting the destination's most ... More than 6.4 million people visited Pulaski County, accounting for 22 percent of the state's overall visitors in all 75 Arkansas counties.
Arkansas Business Online
February 28, 2018
The Grove at Pleasant Ridge, a 225-unit apartment complex at 11901 Pleasant Ridge Road in west Little Rock is under new ownership after a $19 million sale. Vintage Pleasant Valley LLC of Shreveport sold the project to an investment group overseen by Canyon View Capital of Santa Cruz, California.
Arkansas Online
February 28, 2018
The Pulaski County Quorum Court on Tuesday adjusted salary guidelines for new hires and then appropriated $319,433 so the sheriff's office wouldn't have to lower pay ranges for certain positions. Adjustments to the county's hiring guidelines came after a 2017 pay study was done by a Fayetteville-basedÃâà...
Arkansas Online
February 23, 2018
Pulaski County Special School District schools will be closed today, for the second consecutive day, because of flooding and impassable roads throughout the far-flung 640-square-mile rural school system. Deborah Roush, a spokesman for the district, said late Thursday afternoon that district leaders hadÃâà...
Arkansas Online
February 23, 2018
Arkansas voters approved extended terms for elected county officials in 2016. The Pulaski County circuit/county clerk oversees about 95 employees and millions of digital and paper records, including those used in criminal prosecution, voter registration, marriages, divorces and land transactions. The clerkÃâà...
Arkansas Online
February 22, 2018
The heaviest amounts forecast centered over most of Arkansas, resulting in several inches of rain across the state, flooding some highways, raising river levels, toppling some utility poles, and causing a school bus on its morning route to slide off a rural road in Pulaski County. All schools and offices in theÃâà...
KATV
February 21, 2018
As of 1 p.m., the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office says the flooded or barricaded roadways included: Marche Road / Highway 365 North, Hillard Road, Marche Road / Marche Lateral Road, Banaszak Road, Szymanski Road, Clinton Road, Jacksonville Cato Road / Ison Road (inside city of Sherwood), Peters Road / BrascoÃâà...
KARK
February 21, 2018
PULASKI COUNTY, Ark. - Students and a driver had to be rescued Wednesday morning when a Pulaski County Special School District bus went off a flooded road. It happened along Marche Rd. at Marche Lateral Road. The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) says the Pulaski County Road and BridgeÃâà...
Arkansas Online
February 16, 2018
Once open, the facility will be a place for law enforcement officers to take mentally ill people they encounter during their shifts. The people will be treated by medical professionals associated with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at the center at 3001 W. Roosevelt Road. The unit is expectedÃâà...
Arkansas Online
February 13, 2018
The Pulaski County Quorum Court backed an agreement on Tuesday with five other counties and five cities to operate a crisis stabilization unit to treat mentally ill Arkansans. In approving the agreement, ... The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is providing the medical expertise. Act 423 of 2017Ãâà...
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District on Tuesday unanimously selected educators from Houston; Waterloo, Iowa; and Douglassville, Pa., to interview next week for the job of superintendent in the 12,000-student central Arkansas district. The three -- James P. Harris, CharlesÃâà...
Arkansas Times (blog)
December 31, 1999
Both districts are suburban, majority-white areas with household incomes and educational attainment levels higher than Arkansas as a whole. If Tucker were running for re-election, he'd almost certainly hold District 35, but the last time the seat was open, in 2014, it was competitive for both parties.
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
Stay up-to-date with the latest news from Arkansas' capital city in this free weekly email newsletter. ... In August, Pulaski County, with the help of the state energy office, entered a $5 million contract with Entegrity to pay for the upgrades. About $268,000 was also provided by the electric utility Entergy, GuthrieÃâà...
