LITTLE ROCK — A 30-year-old Little Rock woman is being held on a first-degree murder charge in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, police records show.Alisha Nicole Pearson was taken into custody shortly after police responded Monday night to 5919 W. 19th St. and found 32-year-old Theodore Mitchell suffering from a stab wound to his neck. Mitchell later died at...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is protecting two species of freshwater mussels, one of which is found in Arkansas.Wildlife officials announced Monday that placing the sheepnose and spectaclecase species under the Endangered Species Act is part of a settlement agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity.The spectaclecase is a seven-inch long mussel found in...

HOT SPRINGS — The state Crime Laboratory will analyze evidence from a fire that gutted a Hot Springs restaurant last week.Fire officials wouldn’t say whether they’re investigating the fire at Dragon City as arson. But fire officials say there was evidence of “unusual burning” in the blaze. The fire’s cause hasn’t been determined.The Hot Springs fire...

BALANDI, Afghanistan — Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on a delegation of senior Afghan officials — including two of President Hamid Karzai’s brothers — visiting villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.The attack came as students in the east staged the first significant protest in response to Sunday’s...

Eighteen Arkansas residents died in floods last year, the most in any state in the nation but fewer than in the year before, the National Weather Service said Monday.The deaths happened in March through May. Six were in Benton County, including two on April 25, when a vehicle carrying two men went around a barricade in Bentonville and was washed off a low-water...

By Jimmy CarterSpecial to the Arkansas News BureauFAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas’ women’s basketball players and coaches felt good about their NCAA Tournament chances after winning at then-No. 9 Tennessee in late February.Monday, the good feeling became a reality when the Razorbacks watched their name get called on ESPN and added to the Big Dance bracket for the first...