Set to dimmed lights, flameless candle lights and an updated instrumental to The Commodores "Jesus is Love," Carl Anthony Payne II shared a message of love with Pine Bluff High School students and faculty Thursday afternoon.
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.
Lanette Frazier accused fellow Pine Bluff Ward 3 Council Member Glen Brown Sr. of verbally attacking and "aggressively" approaching her and invading her personal space following a special called City Council meeting Feb. 7.
The U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that protected women's rights to an abortion struck a bad chord with some local elected officials, while proponents of Friday's ruling saw it as the successful completion of decades of struggle, now that states including Arkansas are allowed to criminalize abortion again.