Justin Harris

Promotions and leadership changes span industries in Arkansas, from accounting and banking to healthcare and utilities. read more >

He previously served as the deputy communications director and director of visual media for the Arkansas attorney general’s office. read more >

The 26-acre Lakeside Estates Mobile Home Park in Jacksonville was bought from JES Properties LLC, led by Paul Spellmann . read more >

In an era when “fake news” is a rallying cry and the Trump administration is attacking the press as a “failing” opposition party, Lindsay Millar has launched the Arkansas Nonprofit News Network as a “nonpartisan news project dedicated to producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.” read more >

Dozens of legislative races around the state could offer answers on how both parties are adjusting to their newfound roles roughly a year after the GOP completed its sweep of statewide offices. read more >

An Arkansas lawmaker who gave his adopted daughters to a man who later admitted to sexually assaulting one of them says he won't seek re-election in 2016. read more >

The Arkansas Times plans to roll out a new publication focused on LGBT topics and boost its coverage on the rehoming of adopted children in the state through two crowdfunding campaigns. read more >

The Arkansas Senate unanimously approved measures Thursday banning the informal transfer of adopted children known as "re-homing." read more >

A national advocacy group has pledged $25,000 to pay for an independent review of Arkansas' human services agency following revelations that a lawmaker gave his adopted daughter to a man who later sexually abused her, Gov. Asa Hutchinson's office said Wednesday. read more >

Legislation banning the "re-homing" of some adopted children is heading to the Arkansas Senate for a vote, a move prompted by a state lawmaker who gave his adopted daughters to away to a man who later sexually assaulted one of them. read more >

An Arkansas lawmaker who gave away his adopted daughters to a man who later sexually assaulted one of them voted Friday to make such transfers a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. read more >

The Arkansas House has endorsed a pair of bills to regulate the transfer of adopted children to unrelated families. The measures were filed after a legislator gave his adopted daughters to a man who later admitted to sexually assaulting one of them. read more >

Arkansas House members are scheduled to consider a pair of bills to regulate the transfer of adopted children to unrelated families. read more >

An Arkansas House committee has supported a proposal to criminalize some transfers of adopted children to unrelated families. read more >

An Arkansas lawmaker who gave his adopted daughters to a man who later admitted to sexually assaulting one of the them has resigned from two leadership posts. read more >

I introduced my Moritz Scale of Political Bad Behavior back in 2009 in a lighthearted attempt to gauge the magnitude of political faux pas. In the all-news-all-the-time environment, political outrage, like Spinal Tap’s amplifier, always seems to be cranked up to 11, but some politicians really do behave worse than others. read more >

The minority leader in the Arkansas House wants the speaker and governor to consider removing a lawmaker who gave his adopted daughters to a man who later admitted to sexually abusing one of them. read more >

Rep. Justin Harris of West Fork says he gave his adopted daughters to a man who later sexually abused one of them because the children had behavioral problems and professionals recommended the move. read more >

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has instructed the state to review adoption procedures after a House member gave his adopted daughters to a man who admitted to abusing one of them. Hutchinson met with two legislators Thursday after they filed bills to criminalize "re-homing." read more >

The Arkansas Legislature has given final approval to adding drones to the state's voyeurism law. read more >