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4 days ago
- Entertainment
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Greenwood native named Miss Arkansas 2025
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Greenwood native Kennedy Holland was crowned Miss Arkansas 2025 on June 14. 'Congratulations to Greenwood's own Kennedy Holland,' the City of Greenwood said in a Facebook post. A student at the University of Central Arkansas, Kennedy qualified for the state competition after winning the Miss Metro title. 'Congratulations to UCA student Kennedy Holland on being crowned Miss Arkansas at the Miss Arkansas Scholarship Competition tonight in Little Rock!' UCA said in a Facebook post. 'Go Bears!' Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders adds additional funding to April tornado recovery The Miss Arkansas Scholarship Competition is part of the Miss America Organization and awards thousands of dollars in scholarships to participants each year. Contestants are judged in multiple categories, including talent, evening wear, interview and social impact pitch. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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7 days ago
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Franklin County man arrested for attempted murder following stabbing
OZARK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A Franklin County man was arrested June 11 after stabbing a man and claiming self-defense. According to court documents, Preston Teague, 33, is facing charges of first-degree attempted murder, first-degree battery and criminal trespass. According to an affidavit, deputies with the Franklin County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to the Mercy Hospital Emergency Room in Ozark about a stabbing. The victim was taken by ambulance to Mercy Hospital in Fort Smith for surgery because his injuries were too severe for him to be life-flighted to a larger hospital. OSBI investigates LeFlore County shooting that left one dead, one injured The sheriff's office received a 911 call from Teague's mother one minute before the previous call. She said Teague was on his way back home from Ozark, and that he was in an altercation with someone and had stabbed them. She told police the incident happened on Twisted Oak Lane near Ozark. Teague was arrested at his home in Fort Smith and taken to Bloomer, so Franklin County deputies could take him to the Franklin County jail for questioning. Fort Smith police told Franklin County deputies that Teague admitted to them that he had stabbed the alleged victim with a knife. The affidavit said Teague's right hand was bandaged and his outer clothing was covered in apparent dried blood. The affidavit says Teagues told Franklin County deputies on the way to the jail that he believed that his girlfriend was cheating on him with the alleged victim. He told police that he used Snapchat to find out that the alleged victim lived on Tisted Oak Lane and went there. He told police that he was shining a flashlight and calling out to the alleged victim. According to the affidavit, Teague said at some point, the alleged victim came out to confront Teague and rammed Teague's vehicle with a truck. He also said that he did stab the alleged victim, but that it was in self-defense. At the jail, Teague unwrapped the bandage on his hand to reveal a deep laceration. Teague was taken to the emergency room with a deputy present before he was taken to jail, where he has remained since June 11. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Politics
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14 ‘No Kings' Protests planned in Arkansas on June 14
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Fourteen protests are planned across Arkansas on Saturday, June 14, as part of a nationwide demonstration against President Donald Trump, coinciding with his birthday and a military parade marking the Army's 250th anniversary. The 'No Kings' protests aim to counter President Trump's 79th birthday events and recent immigration raids, with organizers accusing him of using the day to boost his ego and escalate tensions, according to the Associated Press. Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Location: Spark Cafe, 101 N Main St, Bentonville, AR 72712 Link: Here Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Location: Alcoa Road Overpass, Alcoa Rd, Benton, AR 72022 Link: Here Time: 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Location: Carroll County Courthouse, 44 S Main St, Eureka Springs, AR 72632 Link: Here Time: 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Location: St. Paul's Episcopal Church Parking Lot, 224 N East Ave, Fayetteville, AR 72701 Link: Here Time: 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Location: 7410 Rogers Ave, Fort Smith, AR 72903 Link: Here Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Location: Boone County Courthouse, East Side, 100 N Main St, Harrison, AR 72601 Link: Here Time: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Location: East Highland Drive & Red Wolf Boulevard, Jonesboro, AR 72401 Link: Here Where the 'No Kings' anti-Trump military parade protests are planned Time: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Location: Broadway Bridge, Little Rock, AR 72201 Link: Here Time: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Location: Walgreens, 640 W Gaines St, Monticello, AR 71655 Link: Here Time: 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Location: Address given by sign up only. Link: Here Time: 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Location: Greene County Courthouse, 320 W Court St, Paragould, AR 72450 Link: Here Time: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Location: Pope County Court House,100 W Main St, Russellville, AR 72801 Link: Here Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Location: 500 N State Line Ave, Texarkana, TX 75504 Link: Here Time: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Old Courthouse (West Memphis),100 Court St, West Memphis, AR 72301 Link: Here The Associated Press contributed to this 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Politics
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee reflects on Morgan Nick case
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is looking back, remembering Morgan Nick, the efforts to find her, and the hope that still lingers despite the decades gone by. It's a call to never forget. 'I think every parent in Arkansas had this immediate sense of not just grief but a deep ache in our hearts as parents to know that this mother had her child at a ballgame, and then she was gone,' Huckabee said. Gone for 30 years as of June 9, 1995. 'I just remember on the night that this happened, and, of course, the news broke the next day,' Huckabee said. 'I was Lt. Governor when the story came out about Morgan Nick's abduction.' The following year, Huckabee was elected as the 44th governor of Arkansas, maintaining a strong connection to the case and the Nick family. 'I was able to meet Colleen fairly soon after all this happened, [and] I have remained in touch with her all these years. She's one of the most remarkable people I've ever met,' Huckabee said. Remarkable and determined, Colleen Nick continues her fight and hasn't given up on getting answers about her daughter's disappearance. 'I think many of us wanted to encourage Colleen. It turns out she was the one who encouraged us,' Huckabee said. All while helping others at the same time through the Morgan Nick Foundation, which assists with more than 1,000 missing person cases each year, turning her worst fear into a tool for other parents going through a similar case. 'I was blown away that here was a mother who had been looking for her daughter and had no idea where she was or if she was safe. But she didn't curl up in a fetal position and give up. She took her energy, and she started using it—first, obviously, to find Morgan, but then to say to parents, 'Here are things you need to be aware of. Don't let your child out of your sight. Make sure you have a good understanding of your surroundings,'' Huckabee said. 'It was very obvious that without Colleen and her advocacy for missing children, some of these important pieces of legislation would never have happened.' One of those was Megan's Law, which requires authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders. 'I just think that anything that a legislative body can do, whether it's to increase the penalties, more resources to law enforcement, to do a better job at being able to quickly identify those who have been abducted [is necessary],' Huckabee said. 'We won't stop till we find her': Driven by Morgan Nick case, Arkansas forms cold case units The most recent bill passed in the Natural State, Senate Bill 371, recognizes the Morgan Nick Foundation. The law establishes a new reporting system for missing children who do not meet the minimum reporting criteria to issue an Arkansas Amber Alert. 'How do you say no to a mother who comes to the state capitol, who shares her story with such a level of articulation and eloquence, and yet does it not with anger, not with bitterness, but just with the broken heart of a mother who now wants to make sure that no one else ever has to experience it,' Huckabee said. 'She had an impact on every legislator. She had an impact on me.' The common sentiment—'It won't happen here'—acted as a wake-up call to many Arkansans following 6-year-old Morgan's disappearance. 'We're a small-town kind of state. Most people know each other, and they know their neighbors, and these kinds of things don't happen,' Huckabee said. 'But it does… and it did.' The question also remains. 'Sometimes I wonder if the technology of today had been in existence when Morgan was abducted, would we have found her,' Huckabee said. 'I'd like to think we would have had a much better chance because images would have been instantly available, a description of the pickup truck that was believed to have taken her away, DNA evidence that was in its infancy—if it even existed at all in places.' Three decades later, the same law enforcement agencies, family, and friends who stood with them then still stand with them today. 'I wish that Colleen had been able to watch her grow up, watch her go to the prom, watch her graduate, watch her get married, watch her bring grandchildren into the world for her. She didn't get to do any of that,' Huckabee said. 'I pray that someday—I pray that I live to see it—that Colleen finds out what happened to Morgan.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Business
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CVS responds to Gov. Sanders' New York Times Op-Ed about PBMs
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — CVS Health is ramping up its campaign against a new Arkansas law that targets pharmacy benefit managers, publicly clashing with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders just hours after she defended the legislation in a guest essay for The New York Times. Act 624, signed by Sanders in April, bars companies from running both a pharmacy and a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), a model used by CVS. PBMs manage prescription drug benefits for insurers, negotiate prices with drug manufacturers and reimburse pharmacies. In her guest essay on June 10, Sanders wrote that PBMs 'forcibly steer patients away from independent operators' and inflate drug prices. She also wrote that Act 624 lets PBMs keep operating in Arkansas, but, she said, 'they just can't continue to mistreat patients and box out other pharmacies.' Sanders claimed the three largest pharmacy benefit managers handle 80% of U.S. prescriptions and earn 70% of specialty drug revenue through their affiliated pharmacies. 'Now, CVS is threatening to close down every pharmacy it operates in our state — preferring to take its ball and go home rather than divest from its pharmacy benefit management business and actually serve the patients it claims to care about,' Sanders wrote. CVS sues Arkansas over new pharmacy law CVS issued a statement later that day disputing Sanders' characterization of the law, claiming that the new law is about 'choosing winners and losers and rewarding special interests.' 'Out-of-state competitors are disadvantaged,' a CVS spokesperson said. 'In-state competitors, including Walmart, would handsomely benefit from the closures of pharmacies owned by us and others. The losers are the people of Arkansas who will pay more.' CVS says the law could force it to close 23 pharmacies in Arkansas, affecting 340,000 patients, and block its specialty pharmacy from treating 10,000 high-risk patients with cancer, HIV and rare diseases. The company is also challenging Act 624 in federal court, arguing it violates the U.S. Constitution. 'PBMs are the last line of defense between drugmakers that want to charge a lot of money, and the American businesses, unions, health plans, and government agencies that want to provide good benefits to people,' CVS said in its response on June 10. CVS argues the law is unconstitutional because it unfairly targets out-of-state businesses, treats similar companies differently, and conflicts with federal laws like ERISA and Medicare rules. The company also raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest. 'One state representative who co-sponsored this law owns 13 pharmacies by himself,' the company said, linking to state Rep. Brandon Achor's campaign website. Act 624, introduced as House Bill 1150, was backed by the Arkansas Pharmacists Association and Attorney General Tim Griffin, and passed easily. Act 624 is scheduled to take effect January 1, 2026. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
