The backpack program provides students with nutritious, easy-to-prepare food to take home over weekends and school breaks, helping ensure they have access to meals when school cafeterias are closed.

Main Street in downtown Jonesboro is reopening to vehicular traffic after initial shoring and stabilization efforts were completed at a damaged building.

A detention center officer at the Craighead County Sheriff’s Office has been terminated.

“Here, future veterinarians will discover their calling, faculty will advance knowledge, and graduates will strengthen communities across Arkansas.”

The campaign encourages motorists, pedestrians and cyclists to practice safe behaviors during the busy back-to-school season when more children are walking and biking.

An organization will be celebrating its grand opening in Jonesboro in September.

List of resources for first-time students, as well as some helpful reminders for returning students at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro’s public university.

A Jonesboro man faces multiple charges after police said he fired shots into occupied homes and vehicles late last month.