Paige Cushman

Arkansas tattoo artist Katie McGowan was angry with her then-boyfriend when she decided to go to Austin, Tex. , to audition for "Ink Master. " “I needed a reason to get out for the weekend,” she said. “As good an excuse as any. ” Four years, three seasons and a few franchise spinoffs later, McGowan and her apprentice-turned-best friend have opened a small tattoo shop in Little Rock called Love Spell Tattoo.

SEARCY, Ark. (KATV) — Amy Stamatis was left paralyzed below the waist after she plunged from the second story of her Searcy home onto a brick patio in November 2006. The circumstances of the incident were unusual. Stamatis had climbed into an open window and was sitting on the sill when she fell. She insists that she did not jump. But for months beforehand, Stamatis had been struggling with “dark thoughts.

When Jack Moyer, the 1886 Crescent Hotel's general manager, moved to Eureka Springs in 1997, he wasn’t troubled by the ghost stories. Partially, he said, because he didn’t believe them. But in his time there, Moyer has heard over 5,000 accounts of unexplained happenings at the historic mountainside resort. The former skeptic even joined paranormal investigators when they filmeda full-body apparition for a 2005 episode of "Ghost Hunters. "

Jeff Collins was dead. After more than 20 years of using methamphetamine and other hard drugs, Collins and his heart had had enough. His main artery was completely blocked and the others were 75 percent blocked. According to Collins, a heart surgeon tried to revive him with a defibrillator four times. For 6 minutes and 21 seconds—all of which, Collins said, he spent at the gates of hell—he was clinically dead. Then the surgeon tried one more time. And, to his surprise, Collins woke u

Nickelodeon is kicking off SpongeBob's "Best Year Ever" tonight to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the premiere of "SpongeBob Squarepants," their highest-rated show. We talked with Rodger Bumpass, the Little Rock native who has spent two decades voicing SpongeBob's sarcastic octopus neighbor Squidward Tentacles. How often do you get back to Little Rock? That’s an interesting question because I usually come back about once a year or so.

Stacy “Pete” Peters pulled his red truck into a church parking lot in Bryant on a recent Tuesday and grabbed the finishing touches of his uniform from his trunk—white gloves, an iconic red hat, and a red velour jacket to cover a memory foam pad wrapped around his waist. A passerby waved and took photos as Peters sinched his waist with a flashy gold belt buckle. On the buckle, his job title is emblazoned in clear letters: “Santa. ”

A wealthy Arkansas businessman has been accused of sex trafficking, rape and fraud in lawsuits filed by his alleged former lovers. Three women recently filed the suits against 71-year-old Terry Fleming of Little Rock. Two of the women are also suing Fleming's companies, some of his employees, his children and others involved in his alleged wrongdoing.

An Arkansas woman who spent years advocating for her son online and documenting his mysterious and debilitating illness has been accused of abuse. Court records show that Kristy and Erik Schneider have been accused ofMunchausen by proxy, or Factitious disorder. The disorder is defined by the Mayo Clinic as “a serious mental disorder in which someone deceives others by appearing sick, by purposely getting sick or by self-injury. ”

Last year, a former Cabot School District Volunteer pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a student-athlete in 2015. Now, newly-opened case files reveal there was another alleged victim, and several staff members were made aware of his inappropriate behavior. John Bradley Rich, who goes by Brad, was convicted of sexual assault in 2019. He is currently serving probation for fourth-degree sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a minor.

Newly-released court documents show that the family of a man who admitted to killing Arkansas nurse Sydney Sutherland has helped detectives with their investigation. Quake Lewellyn, 28, was arrested in August on suspicion of kidnapping and abuse of a corpse after Sutherland’s body was found two days after she disappeared while jogging between Newport and Grubbs. Police found the geo-locating app Life360 on Lewellyn's phone after he agreed to let them search it.

Four more Little Rock Police Department employees have filed suit against Chief Keith Humphrey. The lawsuit is the third filed against Humphrey in the past two weeks. It says that Humphrey violated the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act by refusing to give the four employees their personnel files. It also says that Humphrey closed an internal affairs investigation into himself, "all while covering-up a hostile work environment. "

On Monday, Gov. Asa Hutchinson reported that 55 inmates at a federal prison in Forrest City had tested positive for COVID-19. But inmates at the facility said that the Federal Bureau of Prisons is downplaying the extent of the outbreak and that their living conditions have made them especially vulnerable to the highly contagious virus. Gary Morelandis serving an eight-year sentence for drug conspiracy in the Forrest City prison’s low-security lockup.