DES ARC, Ark. - Forecasters issued flash-flood warnings for parts of Arkansas' prairie as the state's largest water surge in a quarter-century continued its way downstream.

ST. JAMES, Mo. - Severe thunderstorms spawned tornadoes, large hail and lightning in parts of the Midwest on Friday, killing a boater trying to get to shore. Two tornadoes swept through south-central Missouri Friday afternoon, damaging more than 100 homes and tearing off part of a roof at a middle school moments after a tornado drill. No deaths had been reported.

DENVER - Blizzard conditions wreaked havoc from Colorado to the Midwest, and tornadoes ripped through Arkansas and Kansas as a burst of treacherous weather damaged homes, turned roads into ice rinks and sent cars spinning off highways.

Jan Brewer is off to help the GOP raise money — in Arkansas.

Joey DeMichele drove in four runs with his second home run of the weekend and a single and Arizona State routed Arkansas 13-4 on Sunday night to win the NCAA Tempe Regional.

Deven Marrero's one-out RBI single in the 12th inning lifted No. 1 national seed Arizona State over Arkansas in the Tempe super regional on Saturday night.

Eric Boateng had 17 points and seven rebounds and Derek Glasser added a season-high nine assists as Arizona State defeated Arkansas-Pine Bluff 72-57 on Monday.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Flowers and candles piled up Sunday outside the home where a TV anchorwoman was found brutally beaten, as tributes poured into the Web site of the Little Rock station where her colleagues mourned her death.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A popular local TV anchorwoman who had a small part in the Bush biopic "W'' was in critical condition Monday after being beaten in her home. Police questioned whether she could have been targeted.

FOUKE, Arkansas - Federal authorities conducting a child-porn investigation raided the headquarters of a ministry run by a convicted tax evader once labeled by prosecutors as a polygamist who preys on girls and women.

A late start on the Arkansas River hurt the Sun Devil fishing club this month during the team's first venture onto the national stage.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Former Arizona State coach Rob Evans has joined the Arkansas men’s basketball staff as an assistant to John Pelphrey.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Who resumed its North American tour Thursday after lead singer Roger Daltrey returned from a near-weeklong bout with bronchitis.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The state of Arkansas is prepared to pardon Keith Richards for being a reckless driver, 31 years later. The state Parole Board on July 3 approved an application for clemency submitted on behalf of Richards, the 62-year-old guitarist for the Rolling Stones, by Gov. Mike Huckabee.

MARION, Ark. - The lone bus belonging to a mom-and-pop tour operator careened off an interstate and overturned early Saturday, killing 15 Chicago-area travelers, many of them family and friends of the tour company owner. Witnesses told police the bus had been drifting.

OMAHA, Neb. - Jordan Brown looked more like the No. 3 batter he used to be in Arizona’s batting order rather than the No. 8 batter he was Sunday.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Gov. Jan Brewer took her war with the president and his administration on the road Thursday, blasting him for broken promises and calling his latest Jobs Act a "ketchup Popsicle'' so distasteful that even Democrats won't accept.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Gov. Jan Brewer took her war with the president and his administration on the road Thursday, blasting him for broken promises and calling his latest Jobs Act a "ketchup Popsicle'' so distasteful that even Democrats won't accept.