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April 24, 2017

Dashcam video captures Arkansas 4-year-old's fall from bus

A 4-year-old girl fell through the open back door of a moving church bus onto an Arkansas state highway, but was rescued from the road by a volunteer firefighter who happened to be driving behind.

April 24, 2017

2 Arkansas men set to be executed want stays for poor health

Two Arkansas inmates scheduled to be put to death Monday in what could be the nation's first double execution in more than 16 years have asked an appeals court to halt their lethal injections because of poor health.

April 24, 2017

Arkansas firefighter captures moment 4-year-old girl falls out of bus

An Arkansas Volunteer firefighter comes to the rescue after a little girl falls out of the back of a bus. His dash camera, running the entire time.

April 21, 2017

Arkansas conducts first execution since 2005, plans 3 more

Arkansas has carried out its first execution in nearly a dozen years despite a flurry of legal challenges that had spared three other convicted killers.

April 20, 2017

Disabled Vietnam vet says couple robbed him after carrying his groceries in Arkansas

A disabled Vietnam War veteran claimed a couple, who offered to help him with his groceries, attacked and robbed him in his Arkansas home last week.

April 19, 2017

Arkansas inmates set to die Thursday claim innocence

Lawyers for Arkansas inmates condemned to die Thursday in a planned double execution are claiming they are innocent and one of them says advanced DNA techniques could show he didn't kill a woman in 1993.

April 18, 2017

The Latest: Inmate slated to die Thursday due at hearing

The Latest on Arkansas' plans to conduct several executions this month (all times local): 1:20 p.m.

April 18, 2017

Supreme Court denies Arkansas' request to conduct execution

The Supreme Court rejected Arkansas’ request to lift a stay late Monday that would have allowed the state to conduct its first execution since 2005.

April 17, 2017

Arkansas judge barred from execution cases after protest

A judge who lay on a cot as though he were a condemned man on a gurney after issuing an order halting Arkansas' multiple execution plan has been barred from taking up any death penalty-related cases.

April 17, 2017

The Latest: Arkansas tries to reverse execution drug ruling

The Latest on Arkansas' efforts to execute six men by the end of April (all times local): 10:30 a.m.