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President Jimmy Carter had recently accepted Cuban refugees from the Mariel boatlift to enter the United States. The Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center had previously been used as a detention center for Vietnamese refugees and Carter negotiated with Arkansas governor Bill Clinton for the use of the center to process Cuban refugees.
Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies.
April 2 – Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson announces his campaign for the 2024 United States presidential election during an interview with ABC News. [ 3 ] June 29 – Smoke from the ongoing Canadian wildfires is reported to have entered several states, including Arkansas.
Officers from around the state came to assist with the search. “There was so many police officers. They came from everywhere,” Theresa said. “We’re talking Lakewood, Pierce County Sheriff’s.
The incident occurred on September 18–19, 1980, at Missile Complex 374-7 in rural Arkansas when a U.S. Air Force LGM-25C Titan II ICBM loaded with a 9-megaton W-53 nuclear warhead experienced a liquid fuel explosion inside its silo. [2]
A former Arkansas police officer who was fired after a video showed him allegedly beating a man handcuffed in the back of a patrol car was arrested last week. Joseph Tucker Harris, 29, was ...
An Arkansas state trooper has retired after shunting the wrong car off a motorway in a bungled effort to stop a speeding driver during a chase.. Corporal Thomas Hubbard was chasing two cars that ...
The Arkansas Territory was a territory of the United States from July 4, 1819, to June 15, 1836, when the final extent of Arkansas Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Arkansas. [2] Arkansas Post was the first territorial capital (1819–1821) and Little Rock was the second (1821–1836).