Call it an indoor block party or a National Night Out, but Pine Bluff joined cities all across the U.S. on Tuesday in bringing citizens and members of law enforcement together in hopes of making the community safer.
On the heels of a decision by the local branch of the NAACP to recommend a no vote on two Go Forward Pine Bluff-sponsored taxes, the state chapter is recommending the same.
The Pine Bluff branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) unanimously voted on Thursday during their regularly scheduled meeting to oppose Go Forward Pine Bluff s proposed 5/8-cent tax renewal and new 3/8-cent sales tax.
Sabrina Washington went through police training with Kevin Collins and was hired with him at the Pine Bluff Police Department the same day in June 2015, more than five years before Collins was shot to death in a shootout while working an investigation at the Econo Lodge motel.