A fourth victim of Friday’s mass shooting at an Arkansas grocery story has died for their wounds. Callie Weems, a 23-year-old nurse, was shot while helping another gunshot victim at Mad Butcher’s in Fordyce, Arkansas State Police Director Mike Hagar said at a Sunday news conference, according to the Associated Press. “Instead of fleeing the …
Arkansas State Police on Friday identified the man they say opened fire at a Fordyce grocery store, killing three people and wounding 11 more, including two police officers. Travis Eugene Posey, 44, will be charged with three counts of capital murder, the agency said. More charges are pending. Posey was wounded in an exchange of …
Investigators in Arkansas have made an arrest in the death of a woman whose body was found stuffed into a plastic tote and dumped alongside a rural county road in February. The St Francis County Sheriff’s Department said that boys riding four-wheelers found the tub containing the body of Troy Alexzandria Strope, 42, on February …
A retired Army National Guard sergeant major has vanished in Arkansas, and his wife and children aren’t helping find him. In fact, Shannon Collins’s immediately family never even reported him missing — that was his brother and sister, who contacted the Pope County Sheriff’s Office when they hadn’t spoken with him in months. According to …
A two-day manhunt for a man suspected in three murders in Oklahoma and another in Alabama ended on Thursday with Stacy Lee Drake’s arrest in Arkansas. The hunt for Drake began early Tuesday evening in Oklahoma when Sequoyah County deputies responded to a report that two people were dead at a business in Gans, KOCO …
Police in Arkansas have arrested a 49-year-old man who allegedly flew a 15-year-old girl to California for sex. The Fort Smith Police Department said they were contacted by officials in California on Friday about Sean Robert Schiemann, who had allegedly been engaged in a relationship with the teen online and had reportedly bought her a …
Arkansas officials arrested a man early Friday morning on a kidnapping charge after he fled a traffic stop and blew through traffic lights and stop signs in a failed attempt to get away. The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office said not say if the alleged kidnapping victim was with John Aldridge when he was finally arrested …
Heather Hare had already been sentenced to 20 years for sexually assaulting two students.
Arkansas prosecutors have moved to dismiss murder charges against a former high school principal they had charged with killing his wife. The decision came just weeks after Rocky Dodson’s attorney filed a motion challenging the warrants issued in the case as having no probable cause, arguing that prosecutors had just assumed Dodson caused a “blunt …
An Arkansas mother was jailed on Wednesday when she sent her 7-year-old son to walk nearly eight miles to school alone after he missed the bus. Amber Thompson, 33, told Craighead County deputies that it wasn’t her problem if the boy had to walk to school because he was old enough to get himself up …
Three people are dead and five more wounded after gunfire broke out at a late-night party in Arkansas. A person identifed by police as “the suspect” is among the dead, Jonesboro Police said in a Facebook post. The two slain victims, a man and a woman, and a woman who was wounded were all “known …
Arkansas police have arrested two people in connection with the deaths of a mother and infant child found dead off the side of an interstate on-ramp on Tuesday morning. Willie Mott Jr., 43, was initially arrested on an unrelated warrant and later charged with capital murder in the deaths of TeAngela Tate, 27, and her …
