Lee Watson told legislators the corrections board has never asked for the 3,000-bed mega-prison the governor is pursuing.

CALICO ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Officials scoured Arkansas’ rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped from prison over the weekend. Grant Hardin, who briefly ...

CALICO ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas authorities are looking at whether a job in the prison kitchen played a role in the weekend escape of a convicted former police chief known as the “Devil in ...

The Arkansas Department of Corrections said the photo rendering of Grant Hardin, 56, depicts how he may look after he escaped May 25 from the Calico Rock prison.

The Arkansas State Police on Tuesday arrested a Calico Rock man accused of having thousands of files depicting child sexual abuse, a Friday news release states. State police agents and Izard ...

A Calico Rock man died Friday night in a single-vehicle crash on Arkansas 5, a preliminary report from the Arkansas State Police states. Luke Sanders, 24, died around 11 p.m. after the 1998 ...

Calico Rock, circa 1957: Dr. A. Meryl Grasse got his medical degree in 1947 at Pennsylvania and served overseas in various African countries with programs of the Mennonite Church. He made his way ...

CALICO ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Officials scoured Arkansas' rugged Ozark Mountains for a former police chief and convicted killer who escaped from prison over the weekend.

The Arkansas Department of Corrections said the photo rendering of Grant Hardin, 56, depicts how he may look after he escaped May 25 from the Calico Rock prison. The rendering shows Hardin with ...