West Memphis News

Arkansas State Troopers have secured a 2-year-old girl believed to have been kidnapped on Friday from Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Casino-style electronic games of skill wagers at Oaklawn and Southland continued their year-over-year increases, but record months weren't in the numbers in April.

Dixie Chicks star Natalie Maines included a cover of Dan Wilson 's Free Life on her new solo album as a tribute to former incarcerated West Memphis Three member Damien Echols and his wife Lorri.

Geography 901 Memphis is soooo violent. I'm glad you asked. Memphis is so violent, it's beating up neighboring states and taking credit for their violent crimes.

Damien Echols, one of the "West Memphis Three", was freed from Arkansas' death row in 2011, and part of the reason he got off was because of an attorney based in Washington, D.C. Stephen Braga joined Echols' defense team in 2009 and decided to use a little-known legal maneuver called an Alford Plea.

Jason says Tracy is a wonderful mother and wife. She has recently under gone surgery and developed a life threatening blood clot in her right leg.

He went from an accused devil-worshiping witch on Arkansas' death row to living in the land of persecuted witches.

That's a little surprising to hear from the erstwhile Dixie Chicks front woman, who has never been shy about speaking out on political matters.

Damien Echols, a central figure in the infamous "West Memphis Three" case, taped an interview to appear on CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" to discuss his new book.

A prosecutor says no credible new evidence has come up to point to a new suspect in those killings.

Randeep Mann LITTLE ROCK, AR - A former Russellville doctor convicted of plotting a bombing that nearly killed the head of the Arkansas medical board has again been sentenced to life in prison.

Metro police are reporting a surge in so-called sovereign citizens. The FBI defines them as people who don't believe they have to answer to government authority.

West Memphis two-way standout Jarvis Cooper has three offers so far, but is anxious for bigger programs such as Arkansas, Alabama and Auburn - all who have shown interest - to put ones on the table as well.

Local residents will get their first detailed look this week at plans for a $30 million-plus project connecting Downtown Memphis and West Memphis with a boardwalk that could be carrying bicyclists and pedestrians over the Mississippi River by the middle of next summer.

An Ole Miss law professor came Friday to Fayetteville to analyze Arkansas' long legal history of gambling.

Regnat Populus , the grassroots group that succeeded in putting its ethics initiative in a legislatively proposed constitutional amendment heading to the ballot in 2014, has circulated a statement touting its achievement and defending some of the items grafted onto that amendment to achieve legislative approval, particularly an extension of term ... (more)

The principal of the elementary school that three slain Cub Scouts attended would like to see a memorial spruced up before next month's 20th anniversary of the deaths.

May 5 will mark the 20th anniversary of the slayings of three Arkansas children in what would come to be known internationally as the West Memphis Three case.