BIG NEWS:
@SLMPD
just made the announcement. I couldn’t be more excited to keep working in a city where my family roots are. I’m honored for the opportunity to lead the department’s Public Affairs and Information Division.
#BREAKING
: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford County. ASP says two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer were involved.
#ARNews
**WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO / No audio**
CASSIE COMPTON CASE: FBI Little Rock and Stuttgart Police confirm its investigating a TikTok video that shows a young woman, some speculate may be Cassie Compton, a 16-year-old girl who went missing in 2014 from Stuttgart, Arkansas.
#ARNews
JUST IN: State Police have identified the man being hit by the officers as 27-year-old Randal Ray Worcester of Goose Creek, South Carolina.
He’s facing battery, assault, resisting arrest, criminal mischief and terroristic act charges.
#ARNews
There are still many questions surrounding what happened in the minutes before the recording, during and after. We’ll keep pushing for answers.
#ARNews
Crawford Co. Sheriff’s Office: Store clerk in nearby town called police after Worcester allegedly spat in their face & made threats. Deputies then found him in Mulberry. Sheriff’s Office says he was cooperative at first but things took a turn and he apparently injured an officer.
#BREAKING
: Hot Springs Police confirm the 17-year-old, at the center of a statewide AMBER Alert and reportedly being held for ransom, has been located and is safe.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Crawford County Sheriff's Office identifies the deputies involved in yesterday's incident as Deputy Zack King, Deputy Levi White and Mulberry Police Officer Thell Riddle. All three are suspended while State Police investigates.
#ARNews
LITTLE ROCK POLICE 'LIFESAVER': This SUV stops in the middle of the road and
@LRpolice
Officer James Phillips stops to check on them. He realizes a 2-year-old boy is choking on candy. The officer performed the heimlich maneuver, which the family says saved the boy's life.
#ARNews
#NEW
: Arkansas Department of Health issues notice to state’s abortion clinics warning doctors performing an abortion is a felony punishable by prison and fines.
#ARNews
#ARpx
#BREAKING
: Arkansas State Police, Sherwood Police need help looking for missing 13-year-old Harmony L. Frazier. She has shoulder length hair, five feet, three inches tall and weighing 100 pounds. A clothing description has not been provided.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: The suspect in the former State Senator's murder made this her profile photo days after the homicide. Randolph County Sheriff confirmed to KAIT-TV the suspect Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell is pictured right. Senator is on left. (photo: Rebecca O'Donnell's Facebook)
#ARNews
Little Rock ➡️ St. Louis
It’s bittersweet but after 7 years in Arkansas, the time has come. I’m thrilled to share, I’ll be joining
@FOX2now
as an Investigative Reporter in April. It’s an opportunity of a lifetime to work in a city where my family roots are.
#NexstarNation
MAN BURSTS INTO FLAMES AFTER PURSUIT: Arkansas State Police say troopers used a stun gun on a man after a motorcycle pursuit. Police say the driver had a can of gasoline in his backpack. ASP says man is expected to survive.
⚠️ WARNING: VIDEO MAY BE DISTURBING FOR SOME ⚠️
#BREAKING
: Little Rock Police confirm Diamond Arnold-Johnson, the Democratic candidate running for Auditor, has been arrested on a felony terroristic threatening warrant.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
:
@drcampatterson
, top doctor at
@uamshealth
, says schools without safeguards in place, like mask requirements, should not open due to how fast
#COVID19
is spreading. He warns schools reopening without precautions could 'rupture' parts of the healthcare system.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Southwest Airlines plane makes emergency landing at Clinton National Airport after disturbance during flight.
@FBILittleRock
has been called to investigate.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: UAMS top doctor
@drcampatterson
urging Arkansas schools, in high
#COVID19
transmission areas, to consider delaying in-person instruction because children are more susceptible to the Delta variant.
Dr.: "This school year is going to be totally different."
#ARNews
Today is Morgan Nick’s 32nd birthday.
She went missing June 9, 1995 from Alma, Arkansas when she was 6-years-old.
Do you have information that could help authorities? Call Alma Police,
@ARStatePolice
,
@FBILittleRock
, or
@MissingKids
at 1-800-THE-LOST.
#ARNews
#MorganNick
After four remarkable years at KARK/FOX16, I am stepping away to serve the community I love in a different way. I’m thrilled to share, beginning September 23, I will be joining the
@PCSOARSheriff
as the agency’s Public Information Specialist.
#BREAKING
: Video released of
#RichardBarnett
being booked into the Washington County, AR Sheriff's Office just 48 hours after
#USCapitol
riots and after photo shows him in Nancy Pelosi's office.
#ARNews
Maggy Sutherland during victim impact statement:
“Satan is real,” she said. “The hands you hugged me with are the same hands you killed her with.”
“She was not yours to take.”
#SydneySutherland
#ARNews
**WARNING** -- ⚠️ EXTREMELY GRAPHIC ⚠️
New video released today shows two Pulaski County deputies being beaten before a patrol car was stolen by the suspect earlier this month.
The man was later arrested. Both deputies have been released from hospital.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford County. ASP says two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer were involved.
#ARNews
**WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO / No audio**
#BREAKING
: Crawford County Sheriff says
@FBI
is investigating the arrest of Randal Worcester for potential civil rights violations. FBI has not issued official statement yet.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Arkansas State Police launch investigation into this incident, captured on camera, outside a convenience store in Crawford County. ASP says two county deputies and a Mulberry police officer were involved.
#ARNews
**WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO / No audio**
The official ‘Find Cassie Compton’ Facebook page: “Please join us in a prayer chain and pray whomever this young girl is, whether it’s Cassie, that she’s found...”
The page encouraging people to turn on porch lights ‘so Cassie can find her way.’
#ARNews
#CassieCompton
Most of you know my three passions: community, covering breaking news and social media. My dream job has come true! I’m excited to announce I am headed back to
@KARK4News
and
@FOX16News
as a Breaking News Anchor!
It feels so good to be back in
#STL
!
My first day at
@FOX2now
is Monday. I’m honored to be joining a talented team of journalists and working as an Investigative Reporter in a city my family and I call home.
Have something to investigate? My DM’s are open!
#UPDATE
: The official Find Cassie Compton Facebook page has posted that a family in California believes it’s their loved one.
No word yet from law enforcement other than they are investigating the video.
#ARNews
JUST IN: City of New Orleans to require proof of vaccination or a recent
#COVID19
negative test result before going into some indoor businesses, like bars and restaurants.
‘95 KIDNAPPING: Alma Police are looking for the owner of this truck with a camper shell. It could be connected to
#MorganNick
’s abduction on June 9, 1995.
Note the extended gap between cab & camper, window configuration on camper & wrap around taillight.
Send tips:
@MissingKids
#NEW
: Arkansas Children's reporting 21 patients hospitalized with
#COVID19
tonight, eight are in ICU and seven of them are on a ventilator.
Hospital spokesperson tells me of the 21 patients, eight are eligible for the vaccine.
#ARNews
ASP Special Agent: Quake Lewellyn was traveling westbound on County Road 41, observed
#SydneySutherland
walking and passed-by. He turned around and returned to her location, abducted her, put her in back of his pick-up truck and sexually assaulted her.
#ARNews
I was driving home from St. Louis & was led to stop at
#SydneySutherland
’s memorial. Thinking of all the moms but especially thinking of Maggy Sutherland, Sydney’s mom. She opened her home to me a few months ago to share their difficult story. Keep Maggy in your thoughts today.
WATCH: There's a new urgent warning from
@uamshealth
Chancellor
@drcampatterson
tonight. He says if what happened in Marion (59 kids COVID positive in 5 days, 900+ in quarantine) happens at numerous schools, the state's daily
#COVID19
case count COULD triple.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: UAMS top doctor
@drcampatterson
urging Arkansas schools, in high
#COVID19
transmission areas, to consider delaying in-person instruction because children are more susceptible to the Delta variant.
Dr.: "This school year is going to be totally different."
#ARNews
COMING IN HOT: Arkansas State Trooper hits suspect head-on after high-speed pursuit and crash near I-530 in Jefferson County. Troopers say no one was seriously injured.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Federal agents have arrested Zack King and Levi White, the two former Crawford County deputies, captured on camera beating a man last August during an arrest.
Latest:
At Arkansas Children’s tonight:
27 total patients with
#COVID19
, 24 in Little Rock and three in Springdale.
13
#COVID19
patients are in ICU while seven are on a ventilator.
#ARNews
I’m thankful and honored that our investigation into a judge denying people the public defender has been awarded with an EMMY. While the judge has been disciplined, this recognition is further proof that local journalism matters.
#BREAKING
: State Police make arrest in homicide of former Arkansas State Senator Linda Collins.
@ARStatePolice
arrest Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell, 48. More to come.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
:
@lrsd
Superintendent Mike Poore says he's going to ask the school board to file a lawsuit against Arkansas over the state's ban on mask mandates. Poore calls the law 'unconstitutional.'
#ARNews
My heart is shattered. My Aunt Anne, the Hot Springs Village superwoman, passed away.
She loved her family and community so much, she dressed as Mrs. Claus in the middle of July. A few months ago, she was a lead role in HSV’s Mamma Mia.
Our family and Arkansas lost a gem.
🤧🤧
She is a second mom to me down here in Little Rock! I am so blessed to have her in my life (she also keeps me in line)!
Congratulations on your retirement from Little Rock Police Cindy! I love you!
The
#Dumas
car show shooting now marks one of the worse mass shootings in Arkansas history.
Last night | Dumas car show: At least 24 injured, one dead
July of 2017 | Little Rock nightclub: 25 people shot, no fatalities
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Arkansas health official reports 81 additional patients admitted to hospital due to
#COVID19
in the last 24 hours, the largest single-day hospitalization increase since the pandemic began. Total hospitalizations now: 1,220.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
:
@uamshealth
says it will be opening a third COVID-19 unit tomorrow morning as cases explode across Arkansas. Hospital officials are also looking at opening a fourth soon.
#ARNews
#COVID19
#BREAKING
: President Joe Biden to mandate all employers with more than 100 workers require
#COVID19
vaccinations or weekly virus tests. The new requirements would affect as many as 100 million people.
#BREAKING
: Marion School District confirms 168 students, 3 employees in quarantine after starting school Monday due to possible
#COVID19
exposure. More below ⤵️
➡️ 7 students, 3 employees positive for COVID-19
➡️ 10 students, 15 employees not in quarantine because of vaccination
We’re remembering my dad this weekend and celebrating his life. Special thanks to my
@KARK4News
and
@FOX16News
family for the flowers. They mean so much to my family and me.
#BREAKING
: Samuel Bolling Jr, 38, and Dayla Ferrer, 19, have been booked on kidnapping, false imprisonment, aggravated robbery and first-degree battery in connection to Tuesday's AMBER Alert, per Hot Springs Police.
#ARNews
#Raiders
DL Carl Nassib says he’s gay, announcing he’s donating $100,000 to the
@TrevorProject
. Nassib makes history by becoming the first active NFL player to say he’s gay. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
#BREAKING
: Pulaski County Prosecutor confirms he has opened an investigation into Little Rock City Hall and its handling of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Arkansas Attorney General
@LeslieRutledge
certifies trigger law, officially banning abortions in Arkansas unless it's to protect the life of the mother.
#ARNews
#ARpx
Victim impact statements started.
Maggy: Quake, will you look at me in the eyes?
Quake looks at her. Makes eye contact during victim impact statement. Calls him satan.
“She was not yours to take.”
#SydneySutherland
#ARNews
#BREAKING
: Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas has requested members ‘immediately’ limit use of electric service through the next 24 hours.
#ARwx
#ARStormTeam