Food and cash donations the equivalent of 327,881 meals were received during Friday’s event.
Multiple people, including a man convicted of murder, were found with drugs and firearms in their apartments in Jonesboro. One of them was given a $250,000 cash-only bond.
St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro will open the first Maternal Life360 HOME in Arkansas this month and will begin providing services to women with high-risk pregnancies.
Abigail Johnson, of Jonesboro, a junior forensic chemistry major at UM, was named one of the Stamps Impact Prize winners.
The Food Bank of Northeast Arkansas is hosting the Fill the Food Bank drive, co-sponsored by the Jonesboro Radio Group and KAIT8.
Four players recorded double-digit kills on Thursday night for the Arkansas State volleyball team, which defeated Old Dominion 3-1 (25-17, 26-28, 25-16, 25-23) inside the ODU Volleyball Center.
Arkansas State women’s basketball (2-1, 0-0 SBC) drained a school record 20 three-pointers to secure a 114-54 victory over Mississippi Valley State (0-3, 0-0 SWAC) on Wednesday night at First National Bank Arena.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that Arkansas State University System campuses in Jonesboro, Newport and Malvern will receive a combined $10.5 million for three training grants to support workforce development efforts.
The Arkansas State University System Board of Trustees today in a special meeting approved a $30.6 million bond issue to finance construction for the new College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) at the A-State campus in Jonesboro.
Methodist Family Health recently purchased the facility in which the Arkansas Continued Care Hospital in Jonesboro (ACCHJ) is currently located.