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Joseph Duggar's wife Kendra has been arrested in Arkansas, TMZ has learned. A warrant was issued for Kendra Friday … police went to the Duggar family compound in Washington County, Arkansas earlier Friday with a warrant for Kendra's arrest ... but she was not there. But, now she's been taken into custody, according to the Washington County Detention Center. She was wanted for allegedly endangering the welfare of a minor and false imprisonment. As for Joseph, he was arrested Wednesday in Tontitown, Arkansas, and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor ... this after a now-14-year-old girl told...

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...

A father accused of killing the man who allegedly raped and abducted his teenage daughter has won the Republican primary for county sheriff in Arkansas - despite him awaiting trial for murder. Aaron Spencer, 37, secured 53.5 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s Republican primary for Lonoke County sheriff, defeating longtime incumbent John Staley, who received 26.5 percent. The result puts Spencer in the unusual position of potentially becoming the top law enforcement officer in the same county that charged him with murder. Spencer has been accused of fatally shooting Michael Fosler, 67, in October 2024 after discovering the man...

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...

Incumbent Sen. Blake Johnson (R-Corning) aimed to be Senate majority leader next session. Turns out, he won’t even be in the Senate, after losing the Republican primary in Senate District 21 to Rep. Jeremy Wooldridge (R-Marmaduke). Johnson had Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ endorsement and an incumbent advantage, but neither mattered much when the votes were counted. With 100% of the votes in, Wooldridge beat Johnson 62% to 38%, a margin of nearly 3,000 votes.

MAGA Texas Attorney General is expected to win the Texas Republican Senate primary today according to the Polymarket Poll. Paxton, a staunch conservative and MAGA favorite is leading in the Polymarket Poll over RINO John Cornyn by 60 Points! Paxton is well known for fighting election fraud in the state of Texas. Ken Paxton also filed the lawsuit in 2020 contesting the election in four states where Biden reportedly defeated President Trump with mysterious late-night ballot drops. 126 US representatives supported Paxton’s case. 23 states joined Paxton and Texas in the lawsuit.

A Saline County jury on Thursday found a Benton woman guilty of multiple charges, including simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm, and recommended she serve 10 years in prison. Shardria Bogard was convicted February 12, 2026, of simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm, resisting arrest, possession of marijuana, and having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle, according to the Saline County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. The jury recommended a sentence of 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The charges stem from an Oct. 21, 2024, traffic stop conducted by Bryant Police Officer Shelbi McCarty....

A widow’s donation of her late husband’s belongings forced a Goodwill store in Arkansas to evacuate Friday after employees discovered two grenades inside a box. Staff at the Jonesboro location on Caraway Road found the military ordnance around 1 p.m. while sorting through donated items, KAIT8 reported. Jonesboro Police Chief Rick Elliott told the station that crews responded after receiving a call about “a suspicious item.” “Employees were going through donation boxes and found what appeared to be a military-style ordinance,” Elliott said. The police chief told KAIT8 that an elderly woman had gone through “her deceased husband’s belongings that...

A ticket in Arkansas matched the winning numbers drawn on Christmas Eve for the Powerball's $1.817 billion jackpot. The grand prize has an estimated cash value of $834.9 million, the second-largest U.S. lottery jackpot ever won, according to the lottery. The largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was won on Nov. 7, 2022, when a California ticket claimed a $2.04 billion prize.

The commission that oversees public television in Arkansas voted Thursday to sever ties with PBS, making it the first state to end its contract with the broadcast giant that provides popular television programs such as "Sesame Street," "Nova" and "Antiques Roadshow." The eight-member Arkansas Educational Television Commission, made up entirely of appointees of the governor, announced in a news release Thursday that it planned to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, citing annual membership dues of about $2.5 million it described as "not feasible." The release also cited the unexpected loss of about that same amount of federal funding from...

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...

He grew up on a farm in Indiana, the son of a factory worker and eldest of five children. He studied at Liberty, a Christian university founded by the conservative pastor and televangelist Jerry Falwell, and recalls wearing a T-shirt expressing opposition to the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Two decades later, Justin Douglas is running for the US Congress – as a Democrat. He is among about white 30 Christian clergy – pastors, seminary students and other faith leaders – known to be potential Democratic candidates in next year’s midterm elections, including a dozen who are already in the...

Here’s the bottom line: America’s farmers need help — now. In my home state of Arkansas, for instance, our farmers are set to lose hundreds of dollars per acre on their soybean, corn, cotton and long-grain rice crops this year alone. The situation has gotten so bad that Arkansas cash crop receipts are now projected to fall by $617 million in 2025. Adding to these challenges...the contrast between the steep cost of inputs (such as seed, fertilizer and diesel) and the commodity prices that farmers receive for their crops is at its highest level in 25 years. Put differently, input...

A top executive at PBS was arrested and booked on drug charges after he was pulled over by law enforcement officials in Arkansas. Michael Hibblen, director of public affairs at Arkansas PBS, was arrested after Pulaski County deputies allegedly found methamphetamine in his car during a traffic stop earlier this week, authorities said. Deputies pulled Hibblen over around 9 p.m. on Monday on Interstate 40 westbound after clocking him at 80 mph in a 60 mph zone, according to an arrest report obtained by KATV-TV. The longtime journalist told deputies he was heading home after dropping off a friend at...

A recent report from a prominent pro-life organization ranks all 50 states on their laws regarding abortion, assisted suicide and conscience protection for healthcare workers.Americans United for Life released its annual "Life List" state rankings, naming Arkansas the most pro-life state in the country for the sixth consecutive year."AUL looks at each state's protections for life from conception to natural death. This includes laws on abortion, legal recognition of preborn children, bioethics, assisted suicide and end-of-life patient care, and healthcare rights of conscience," the organization stated. "Additionally, states are awarded points for their life-affirming cultural and political landscape and momentum."Louisiana...

A near-naked California trucker, who doesn't speak English, was confronted by Arkansas police and TESTED on his ability to read BASIC traffic signs. He FAILED. Gavin Newsom is responsible for this.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers sought unanimous consent approval for a bill that would stop the changing of the clocks. ============================================================== Sen. Tom Cotton wasn’t fast enough in 2022 to block Senate passage of legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent. Three years later, he wasn’t about to repeat that same mistake. The Arkansas Republican was on hand Tuesday afternoon to thwart a bipartisan effort on the chamber floor to pass a bill that would put an end to changing the clocks twice a year, including this coming Sunday. “If permanent Daylight Savings Time becomes the law of the...

A loving Arkansas father who killed a man he discovered in a car with his 14-year-old daughter last year is taking an incredibly bold step to right the justice system. As 40/29 News reported, Lonoke County resident Aaron Spencer announced Friday night that he was running for sheriff. The announcement was made on his campaign’s Facebook page. Here is the announcement video below: VIDEO AT LINK............................. SPENCER: Hello Lonoke, my name is Aaron Spencer. Many of you know my story. I am the father who acted to protect his daughter when the system failed. I’m also a husband, a combat...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will introduce a bill on Tuesday that would sharply reduce the number of H-1B migrants working in U.S. white-collar jobs. The bill, to be announced Tuesday morning, would begin to count visa renewals as new visas, so ending the current practice of allowing unlimited renewals for most of the 85,000 visas granted to companies each year. The unlimited renewals policy allows roughly 750,000 H-1B visa holders to retain white-collar, career-track jobs that would otherwise have gone to young U.S. graduates. Without the exemption, the number of company-employed H-1B visa holders would drop to roughly 250,000. The...

A Missouri man was found dead from a likely bear attack this week, just two days after he sent photos to his family of a bear at his campsite in Arkansas, according to officials. Police found the 60-year-old man’s body several hundred yards from his campsite near Mt. Judea, Arkansas, on Thursday. The area showed signs of a struggle and had drag marks away from the camp. The man's son had asked for a welfare check because his dad hadn’t checked in for a couple of days since sending the photos. His body has "extensive" injuries "consistent with those expected...