North Little Rock News

NLR sending nine to cities meeting Mayor Patrick Hays and five city aldermen will be among nine North Little Rock officials attending the National League of Cities Conference in San Antonio Tuesday-Sunday. Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

Vandy Nash , a fourth grade teacher at Indian Hills Elementary in North Little Rock, has just been presented the 2010 Teacher of the Year award of the state Department of Education at the Governor's Mansion gala.

A former soldier shot and killed his fiancee a ' a first-year English teacher at North Little Rock High Schoola TMs East Campus a ' in her Skyline Drive apartment before dawn Tuesday morning, police said.

A North Little Rock man wants the city to clean out a storm drain that he says caused him tens of thousands of dollars worth of property damage after it flooded.

A former soldier has been arrested in North Little Rock in the shooting death of his fiancee who was a high school English teacher.

Fifth graders are getting a treat in downtown North Little Rock and Little Rock.

A guy wants to dump his very aggressive gal; a guy cheats on his insecure and suspicious fiancee; a gigolo dumps his gal for her godsister.

Both the lower White River and the Ouachita River are continuing to rise following heavy rain last week -- raising worries of potential flooding.

A teacher at Pulaski Technical College is dead after he was struck by an ambulance when he stopped to help an injured animal.

Floyd's pen-pal sweetheart is coming for a visit, but she thinks he's a wealthy businessman.

Central Arkansas is on track for a new yearly record for rainfall. Two months of the year are still left but precipitation totals for 2009 are already up to a mark less than 8 inches shy of the current record of 75.54 inches, set in 1882.

Police in North Little Rock are trying to track down a killer. Just after 7:00 a.m., a driver called 911 saying she saw a man run his off car the road at the intersection of Riverfront Drive and South Cedar St.

The American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas continues to care for twenty five residents from the Silver City Court Housing Project, 700 West 18th Street, North Little Rock evacuated from waist high water filling their apartments during last nighta s rain.

While residents in some Western and Plains states were digging out Friday after an early blast of snow, heavy rain and strong winds that toppled trees, power lines and church steeples lashed parts of the South, leaving three people dead.

Crews are cleaning up after a storm destroyed the Fire Academy in East Camden. Ouachita and Calhoun Counties had several reports of damage and flooding.

Three girls from Bentonvillea s state championship team and the Tigersa top doubles team will be in North Little Rock today for the Arkansas High School Overall Tennis Tournament at Burns Park.

Free flu shots are being offered in mass flu clinics all around the state. One of the events takes place at Dickey Stephens Park in North Little Rock on Thursday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Options include drive-thru clinics and limited walk-in services, depending on where the clinic is located.

The Arkansas Department of Health confirms that a bat found in North Little Rock tested positive for the rabies virus.

Thanksgiving is a time for food and festivity, but it takes a lot of time and money to create the just-right meal.

CityFest has drawn in over 8-million people nationwide since 1999 and now it's here in Arkansas.