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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Multiple packs of synthetic Kratom were found at Smoke Plus in Newbern, Tennessee, by the West Tennessee Drug Task Force on Tuesday. Agents say that during an undercover investigation, lab-created Kratom was sold to one of the undercover agents out of the back room. Synthetic kratom, $1 million in cash seized from Memphis wholesaler That is when a search warrant was issued for the smoke shop on 603 West Main Street. The task force seized multiple packs of the drug after the warrant was executed. The drugs were then sent to a lab for testing. The Newbern...

Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan’s execution by firing squad will be in public at Fort Hood, the base where he slaughtered 13 people in 2009, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth revealed Thursday. “We’re gonna make sure it’s going to make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public, because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Hegseth said when asked by Real America’s Voice about the fate of the former Army major, who has been on military death row since 2013. The defense chief said he believes it’s important Hasan...

Donald Trump attempted to turn up the heat on fellow Republican Tom Cotton in the fight to change daylight saving time, even giving out what appeared to be the Arkansas senator's personal cell phone number. The President spent much of Saturday speaking out in favor of The Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight saving time permanent. The bill passed the House in July but faces roadblocks among Republicans, including Cotton, who is strongly opposed. 'For some reason, Tom is stopping the Bill and, in the Senate, it´s very easy to do, it only takes one!' Trump wrote on social...

The Democratic nominee for Senate in Arkansas, Hallie Shoffner, raised money in the summer of 2020 for a "racial and social justice" bail fund founded by a left-wing activist who was later sentenced to 17 months in prison for her role in a series of firebombing attacks on police cars in Little Rock. Shoffner and the family farming company she ran at the time, SFR Seed, donated flowers to a jewelry store in Little Rock, Bella Vita Jewelry, that in turn sold bouquets to raise money for the Little Rock Freedom Fund. The store's owner posed with Shoffner as she...

A disgraced Pro-Iran professor is vowing to go after the anti-regime activist who exposed her “with an army,” landing her under FBI investigation, The Post has learned. Former University of Arkansas professor Shirin Saiedi blames the end of her career in the US on Lawdan Bazargan, whose Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists (AAIRIA) helped expose alleged plagiarism in her academic work and her support for the Iranian regime. “Lawdan Bazargan, you are absolutely finished,” Saeidi says in a Persian-language post on X last month, verified as accurate by The Post. “I am coming after you with an army…...

44.0% – Senator Tom Cotton (Republican) 47.4% – Hallie Shoffner (Democrat) 3.0% – Jeff Wadlin (Libertarian)

The Clarksville City Council has approved the issuance of billions of dollars of bonds to support a data center currently under construction. On Thursday, the council unanimously approved two ordinances for taxable industrial development revenue bonds. The first ordinance was for up to $50 billion in industrial bonds to Hatchbo LLC, and the second ordinance was for up to $5 billion in industrial bonds to SF ARK1 LLC, which is Serverfarm. Serverfarm, the company behind the future data center, says its $6.6 billion investment includes the major mechanical and electrical systems needed to support long-term operations.

As Democrats across the country criticize education programs in red states, Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is touting a major achievement in her state she hopes will serve as an education blueprint for all states, regardless of politics, nationwide. "The thing we're most excited about is the fact that so many Arkansas students are doing better now than they would have been doing pre-LEARNS legislation," Sanders told Fox News Digital on the day her office announced a "major breakthrough" in education following implementation of a 2023 Republican-backed statewide education overhaul, known as the LEARNS Act.

Five US states reject LGBT ‘pride’ month, reclaim June for marriage, family, GodThe governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, and Utah issued proclamations that follow in the footsteps of Tennessee, which passed a resolution in April recognizing June as ‘Nuclear Family Month.’ Five U.S. states have now chosen to disregard homosexual and transgender “pride month,” casting aside the rainbow flag and reclaiming June for marriage, family, and God. The governors of Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, and Utah issued proclamations that follow in the footsteps of Tennessee, which passed a resolution in April recognizing the month of June as “Nuclear Family Month.”Tennessee’s resolution...

LONOKE COUNTY, Ark. — A judge on Thursday dismissed the murder case against candidate for Lonoke County Sheriff Aaron Spencer. Spencer had been charged in 2024 with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Michael Fosler. According to case filings, Spencer shot Fosler after spotting the man driving his daughter. Fosler, at the time, was released on bond after being accused of raping Spencer’s underage daughter in July of 2024. The case was presided over by Special Circuit Court Judge Ralph Wilson Jr. In the order dismissing the case for due process violation. Wilson cited filings by Spencer’s lawyers, the...

The incident – seen in a now-viral video shared on social media and officer body-camera video shared by police – began with a fight Wednesday afternoon between multiple students at Fairfield High School. Fairfield police arrested two students and confiscated two backpacks, which police said contained sharp objects. A video shared on social media, which now has nearly 50,000 views, shows an officer punching the student in the head while they are face-down on the ground.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president last cycle, opted to fly to Maine to stump for Graham Platner, an oyster farmer who is running for Senate and who has a Nazi tattoo. Several members of Congress responded. “Don’t forget to ask him about his Nazi tattoo,” stated Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). “Can you let him know there’s ways to remove the Nazi tattoos from his chest?” asked Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.). “In case it wasn’t clear before why Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro. This is who they are,” the Republican Jewish Coalition stated....

Ex-con former first son Hunter Biden may have to shell out more in child support to his former stripper baby mama, given his alleged lavish lifestyle featuring gourmet food and a mountain home with ocean views. An Arkansas judge Thursday ordered Biden, a 56-year-old dad of five, to turn over his tax records and other financials and sit for a grilling under oath by lawyers for Lunden Roberts — with whom he shares 7-year-old daughter Navy Joan Roberts. The ruling came as part of Roberts’ bid to have Biden start coughing up more than the $5,000 a month he currently...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders @SarahHuckabee Last week I was having lunch with two other moms at a restaurant when the owner approached a member of the State Police Executive Protection Detail and said my presence made their employees feel threatened and told us to leave. Arkansans are known for their warm hospitality, and while that restaurant didn’t meet that standard, my administration will continue to focus on lifting Arkansans up, not tearing others down.

Here we go again. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, current Republican governor of Arkansas and White House press secretary during the first Trump administration, has once again found herself on the receiving end of intolerance from the left, this time at a croissant cafe near her children's school. Sanders was apparently enjoying lunch last week at The Croissanterie in Little Rock alongside a group of fellow moms when she and her security were approached by staff and asked to leave "due to concerns that her presence was making employees feel threatened and uncomfortable due to her political views." When she stood to...

Aaron Spencer won the Republican primary for county sheriff in central Arkansas as he awaits his murder trial in a case that’s drawn national attention and shaped much of his campaign message. Spencer got 53.5% of the vote, while longtime incumbent John Staley received 26.5% in the Lonoke County race, according to the Arkansas Secretary of State. Staley conceded in a Facebook message posted early Wednesday morning. A third Republican candidate, David Bufford, received almost 20% of the vote. In this politically conservative county where Donald Trump won almost 76% of the vote in 2024, Spencer’s victory makes him the...

A man from Calico Rock has been arrested on a rape charge in Jonesboro. Twenty-nine-year-old Terry Nicholas Mitchell was arrested last week and booked into the Craighead County Jail on the class Y felony. According to the probable cause affidavit from the Jonesboro Police Department, detectives met with the victim at the hospital who said she had been communicating with Mitchell for about three weeks after meeting him online. She had been traveling near Calico Rock Dec. 20 and invited Mitchell to go back to Jonesboro with her. That night Mitchell asked to sleep in the victim’s bed, which she...

Deck the halls with Benjamins! A Powerball player in Arkansas won the $1.82 billion jackpot winning ticket on Wednesday night, the second-largest jackpot in lotto history. The winning numbers for the Christmas Eve drawing were 4, 25, 31, 52, 59 and the Powerball 19. The lucky winner can choose between the $1.82 billion prize paid out over 29 years or the one-time lump sum of $834.9 million. The drawing was initially marketed at $1.7 billion, but the pot was raised to the new life-changing figure after final ticket sales were tallied. It is the second time the Powerball grand prize...

A political science professor at the University of Arkansas stands accused of praising Iran’s Supreme Leader using the school’s letterhead and attacking Israel, The Post has learned. Shirin Saeidi, head of the school’s Middle East Studies program, also allegedly supported a convicted Iranian regime war criminal, evidence shows. Now, lawmakers and a group of Iranian dissidents are demanding administrators at the university further discipline Saeidi, who was removed from her position Friday, according to a spokesman. Saeidi used the school’s letterhead to appeal for the release of Hamid Nouri, who was convicted by a Swedish court in 2022 of ordering...

Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with the PBS network, a move that will take shows like “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood” and “Antiques Roadshow” off the air for tens of thousands of viewers. The decision makes Arkansas PBS the first statewide public TV system to break from PBS since Congress voted this summer to strip $500 million in annual funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which backs TV and radio stations across the United States. The loss of federal funding has put enormous pressure on the public media system, sending stations scrambling for ways to fill big budget gaps. The...