Sam Lane Sam Lane covers Arkansas high school sports, with an emphasis on football, and University of Central Arkansas athletics. He has been with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 2022.

Growing up in Bay Ridge, a waterfront city of row houses and brownstones in the New York borough of Brooklyn, Anthony Valinoti was part of a classic Italian family living the middle-class struggle.

Sam Lane Sam Lane covers Arkansas high school sports, with an emphasis on football, and University of Central Arkansas athletics. He has been with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 2022.

Arkansas basketball commit JJ Andrews was named Most Valuable Player of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League Peach Jam after leading Brad Beal Elite to a second consecutive championship last week.

It is almost one month until the start of the 2025 high school football season in Arkansas, which means it is time to unveil the preseason top 25 high school fo ...

BAY SPRINGS, Miss. (WDAM) - Regrick Young’s first year as a head football coach with Bay Springs High School checked a lot of boxes. Young led Bay Springs to a 9-4 campaign, also claiming a ...

Roughly 150 campers turned out Saturday at Southside High School as Kobe Branham and a few Arkansas football celebrities hosted a youth camp in Fort Smith.

It is almost one month until the start of the 2025 high school football season in Arkansas, which means it is time to unveil the preseason top 25 high school football rankings for The Natural State.

A collaboration between an Oxford author and a newly graduated Coast illustrator came to life in downtown Ocean Springs.

Haughton graduate Christian Turner was named to the 2025 ABCA/Rawlings High School All-America baseball team. Turner, an Arkansas signee, was the only Louisiana player selected.

TEXARKANA, Ark. -- Southwestern Electric Power Co. Foundation has awarded a $90,000 grant to Texarkana College Foundation to support the expansion of aviation education at Texarkana Arkansas High ...

From Mecca to Palm Springs, local organizations are stepping up to ease back-to-school costs for students. Here's how to get help or donate supplies.