Arkansas lawmakers have moved closer to drafting a budget for the coming year. But the top Republican in the House, Minority Leader John Burris, says he and Democratic Governor Mike Beebe remain far from an agreement....More >>
GOP congressional candidate Marcus Richmond says he's dropping out of the race in Arkansas' 4th district and that he's endorsing former rival Tom Cotton.More >>
A 22-year-old Searcy man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 24-year-old man who was killed while working as a janitor.More >>
The Supreme Court seems divided on whether to allow an Arkansas man to be retried on murder charges even though a jury forewoman said in open court that they were unanimously against finding him guilty.More >>
Federal officials say another 10 states are getting a total of $230 million to set up new health insurance markets under President Barack Obama's overhaul.More >>
The Supreme Court seems divided on whether to allow an Arkansas man to be retried on murder charges even though a jury forewoman said in open court that they were unanimously against finding him guilty.More >>
Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe is offering more than $678,000 in cuts that he's willing to make to his budget proposal as he continues negotiations with lawmakers.More >>
A man accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online whose body was found stuffed into a barrel in western Arkansas has been charged with first-degree murder.More >>
Arkansas legislative leaders say they hope to soon end an impasse over the state budget bill that's been delayed over a Republican push to cut more in agency spending.More >>
The Arkansas Senate has approved using $2.6 million from the state's surplus to keep the financially troubled Arkansas Forestry Commission operating and to repay federal money state official say the commission improperly...More >>
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether an Arkansas man should be tried a second time on a capital murder charge, even though his original jury found him not guilty of the crime.More >>
The Arkansas House is again delaying a vote on introducing the proposed budget as lawmakers continue negotiating on a series of cuts proposed by Republicans.More >>
A highway construction firm is continuing to press for a $6.5 million settlement with the state for cost overruns for a stretch it built on Interstate 30 near Little Rock.More >>
A legislative panel has approved a $125,000 settlement for the death of a special needs patient at an Arkansas Department of Human Services facility in Booneville.More >>
The Hempstead County Sheriff's Department has issued a missing-person report for a 58-year-old woman last seen two weeks ago at a Walmart in Hope.More >>
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is reporting a 4.2 percent decline in fourth-quarter profits. But the world's largest retailer's U.S. namesake business continued its rebound as its grabbed shoppers over the critical holidays.More >>
Companies that drill in the Fayetteville Shale natural gas formation have announced a $130,000 donation for scholarships at the University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton.More >>
Movement on Arkansas' budget remains at a standstill over a Republican push to cut $21 million in agency spending as lawmakers convene for the second week of the fiscal session.More >>
Authorities in Cross County say a pastor is being held on a charge of having sex with a minor, and the girl's family members say she is pregnant.More >>
The top Republican in the Arkansas House says his proposal to cut $21 million from the state's budget can be achieved without laying off state workers or interrupting services.More >>
The Arkansas Air Museum and the Ozark Military Museum are merging and will become one entity that will feature collections of both military and racing aircraft.More >>
Students at Ashdown High School have been studying the spread of feral hogs in southwest Arkansas, and the effort includes making a documentary film about the effect of the beasts on forests and farmland.More >>
A federal judge has set a trial date for two Russellville law officers who are the targets of a lawsuit by a man who was acquitted in the death of beauty queen Nona Dirksmeyer.More >>
The mayor of Trumann says the town's police chief has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation.More >>
Arkansas Department of Health officials are urging residents to get their pets vaccinated after another animal tested positive for rabies in Boone County.More >>
The one-week filing period for office in Arkansas begins this week, and both major parties have plenty on the line as they kick off the 2012 campaign season.More >>
A replica of the Statue of Liberty that stood outside Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville has been removed from the National Register of Historic Places after being moved when the hospital opened a new...More >>
A Mountain Home man has been sentenced to two years in prison after pleading no contest to an animal cruelty charge after he reportedly killed his ex-girlfriend's Chihuahua by putting the dog in a washing machine and...More >>
The Arkansas Tech University Board of Trustees has approved nearly $5 million in improvements to campus - including more than $175,000 to restore the theater program's workshop.More >>
The Arkansas Forestry Commission is working to start a search for a new director and set up monetary policies that don't violate financial rules.More >>
The third of five Arkansas law enforcement officers indicted in a drug-trafficking and corruption investigation has pleaded guilty to money laundering and extortion.More >>
About 100 people in an eastern Arkansas town will lose their jobs after a copper tube company decided not to rebuild part of its plant that was destroyed by fire in September.More >>
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has signed into law a bill that will keep state elected officials' salaries flat for the coming year and fund 13 new judgeships.More >>
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is using $450,000 from legal settlements to help the state avoid furloughs of 120 trial court assistants this year.More >>
The IRS has attached liens to nearly all property owned by the city of Blytheville as the federal government tries to regain nearly $3 million in unpaid payroll taxes.More >>
The union representing teachers in the fiscally distressed Pulaski County School District has agreed to open negotiations on how to trim nearly $14 million from next school year's budget.More >>
Ark. Gov. Mike Beebe says he's concerned about the consequences of a Republican plan to cut $21 million from agencies' budgets, but said he'll take a look at the proposal.More >>
The University of Arkansas says it will award an honorary degree to Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, whose Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has drawn thousands of visitors to northwest Arkansas since it opened last year.More >>
A former Tyson Foods worker accused of making a bomb threat last year so he could spend more time with a female friend has been sentenced to time served.More >>
The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that reports from police officers that explain why they use force against someone are not exempt from the state's public record law.More >>
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a Nevada man is hospitalized in Fort Smith, Ark., after jumping from a moving Greyhound bus on Interstate 40 in eastern Oklahoma.More >>
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport now has a new full-body scanner that officials say should speed up the screening process and reduce the number of pat-downs.More >>
The Arkansas Supreme Court is expected to hear oral arguments in a case in which a jury ordered a nursing home to pay more than $5 million following the death of a woman who attorneys say didn't receive proper care.More >>
The future of Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's proposed $4.7 billion budget for the coming year is up in the air as Republicans are calling for $21 million in spending cuts.More >>
Legislation to keep elected officials' pay flat for the coming year and pay for 13 new judgeships around Arkansas is headed to the governor's desk.More >>
The co-chairman of the Joint Budget Committee says he's in no rush to ask the Arkansas Senate to vote on whether to move forward with crafting the state's $4.7 billion budget for the coming year.More >>
A federal judge has scheduled a May 7 trial over a lawsuit that challenges the boundaries of a newly redrawn state Senate district in eastern Arkansas.More >>
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has approved the language of a proposed constitutional amendment to reduce a sales tax for conservation and remove the Game and Fish Commission from agencies benefitting from the tax.More >>
A Republican running for his party's nomination for the 4th Congressional District seat has won the endorsement of a group known for its anti-tax stances.More >>
The Arkansas Claims Commission has agreed to a $1.25 million settlement over the choking death of a 25-year-old man who was under the care of a state center in Booneville for people with developmental disabilities.More >>
An El Dorado-based company that makes steel cable for use in energy, mining and other industries is being sold to a French company for $275 million.More >>
A spokeswoman for Boeing Co. says it is still too early to know whether a proposal to eliminate a program to upgrade the cockpits of C-130 aircraft will affect the number of jobs the company plans to move to Oklahoma City.More >>
House Speaker Robert Moore says a competing budget proposal by Republican lawmakers in the majority Democrat Legislature may face more scrutiny from lawmakers who want details on the cuts being sought.More >>
A Branson, Mo., singer says he's laughing off an attempt by a photographer to extort the hit TLC reality show "19 Kids and Counting" by threatening to release photos of him with a cast member.More >>
A proposal to repeal a tax break for truckers that takes effect later this year has cleared the first hurdle toward being considered in the fiscal session.More >>
The Arkansas House is considering legislation that will keep state elected officials' pay flat for the coming year and pay for 13 new judgeships.More >>
A federal judge has postponed a sentencing hearing in the kidnapping case involving an Arkansas man who was abducted from home and taken at gunpoint to a Mississippi casino to cash a $2,000 check.More >>
Arkansas sophomore Emily Tubert's second round two-under 70 is good enough for fourth place and the Razorbacks are tied for third in the second day of the 10th Annual Lady Puerto Rico Classic.More >>
Arkansas House Speaker Robert Moore says there's substantial support in the House for repealing a tax break for truckers but isn't as sure of its backing in the Senate.More >>
The state elected officials would not receive a pay raise and 13 new judgeships would be created under a bill headed to the House floor for a vote.More >>
The new director of Arkansas' lottery says he wants to focus on boosting ticket sales and that he does not plan to hire vice presidents for the commission.More >>
Arkansas House Speaker Robert Moore is warning lawmakers to not "reinvent the budget wheel" as they gather at the Capitol for a limited session focusing on fiscal issues.More >>
The top Republican in the Arkansas House says he and other lawmakers are working on their own alternative budget to the one proposed by Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe.More >>
Gov. Mike Beebe is traveling to China in April for an economic development trade mission, his third international trip since he took office in 2007.More >>
Arkansas lawmakers are returning to the Capitol to consider a $4.7 billion budget that calls for increasing spending on Medicaid and public schools.More >>
The Pulaski County School District has already been taken over by the state but it is to be before the Arkansas Education Board to discuss its continued financial woes.More >>
Residents in Arkansas and Oklahoma are preparing for an approaching winter storm that threatened to dump snow, sleet and freezing rain on both states.More >>
Officials say a paperwork error is to blame for a state mental hospital not being notified for months that a man charged with capital murder needed a mental evaluation.More >>
Indiana's ballot rules are vexing two candidates hoping to be on the May primary ballot, but supporters of the requirements say they prevent problems that have occurred in other states.More >>
Federal regulators have sent back to the Postal Service the plans to close post offices in southwestern Arkansas and northeastern Texas while upholding plans to close two other post offices in Arkansas.More >>
Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin is arguing that even though he doesn't support an east Arkansas state Senate district's new boundaries, it's too late to change them in response to a federal lawsuit.More >>
A two-block stretch of Kavanaugh Boulevard in the Heights was evacuated as authorities investigated a backpack that a man left while robbing a bank, claiming there was a bomb inside.More >>
An Oklahoma couple has been arraigned on federal murder and kidnapping charges for the death of a man who was strangled by a noose and whose body was dumped at Texarkana Speedway.More >>
A bank has filed a foreclosure suit against the Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, claiming the entity owes more than $300,000 on the historic Malco Theatre - where a documentary festival is held each year - and a...More >>
Trumann police say a fire that killed a 13-month-old boy and injured three others has been ruled an accident, and they don't expect any criminal charges to be filed.More >>
Arkansas lawmakers are reviewing what caused the $4 million budget shortfall that led the Forestry Commission to lay off 34 employees this year.More >>
Arkansas lawmakers are proposing a repeal of a tax exemption for truckers following the state trucking lobby's decision last year to pull its support for a 5-cent diesel tax increase.More >>
A Des Arc man whom federal prosecutors say was the leader of a drug ring that distributed methamphetamine in central Arkansas has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.More >>
A group of Arkansas lawmakers is calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require the backing of a majority of state legislatures before the nation's debt ceiling can be raised.More >>
The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld a Junction City man's capital murder conviction in a 2009 slaying, despite arguments from his attorney that the jurors who convicted him were confused by state law.More >>
A former owner of Illinois-based technology companies has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for plotting to bribe school officials to get federal contracts for Internet access services at schools in Louisiana,...More >>
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe says he's content to have his deputy chief of staff keep running the state Economic Development Commission but isn't ready to name him the permanent director of the agency.More >>
Gov. Mike Beebe says that the additional, unused money officials found in the state's budget to rehire 15 firefighters laid off by the Forestry Commission isn't a sign that the state is operating inefficiently.More >>
Arkansas' attorney general says the state will receive $39.4 million from a national settlement between states and the country's biggest mortgage lenders.More >>
Union workers at the Whirlpool plant in Fort Smith have voted to accept a severance package the company offered workers for when it stops production this summer.More >>
A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves has joined the race for the Republican nomination for an open congressional seat in south Arkansas.More >>
Attorneys are scheduled to deliver closing arguments in the court-martial of a Hawaii-based Marine sergeant accused of hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide.More >>
Army Corps of Engineers officials say it will take some time before they decide whether to preserve or demolish the remains of a once-thriving resort in western Arkansas.More >>
Southwestern Electric Power Co. has asked the Arkansas Public Service Commission to review its plans to retrofit its coal-fired plant in Gentry with environmental controls.More >>
Gov. Mike Beebe says 15 firefighters with the Arkansas Forestry Commission will be put back to work this month after a shift of money within the state's budget.More >>
School officials in Magnolia say a junior high school's metal detectors weren't in use this week when a student was stabbed by another student who brought a knife to school.More >>
Gov. Mike Beebe says he has an idea on how to use one-time money to keep a fund that pays for many of the state's judicial operations solvent, but he wants to see a long-term solution for its funding woes.More >>
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is creating regional groups for parents of students so they can meet other parents and cheer on the Razorbacks.More >>
Harding University officials are emphasizing that although the campus is excited to get its first Starbucks, the school does not support the coffee company's stance in favor of gay marriage.More >>
A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments in the case of a doctor who was convicted in a 2009 bombing that nearly killed the head of the Arkansas State Medical Board.More >>