LITTLE ROCK — The Little Rock Police Department plans to spend $340,380 on enough riot gear to outfit about 500 of the department’s 550 officers with helmets, gas masks and shields.

Protests took a violent turn Saturday in Little Rock, with windows smashed in some buildings across from the state Capitol, and the Arkansas State Police firing tear gas to dislodge protesters who ...

By a vote of 7-1, the Little Rock Board of Directors approved the purchase of riot gear for the Little Rock Police Department on May 19. With images of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and ...