Garner News

Three deaths are reported in the explosion of a gas tank near the community of Garner in White County.

Toad racing, music, deep fried everything; it was all there Friday afternoon when Toad Suck Daze 2009 kicked off.

LITTLE ROCK From his push for an increase in tobacco taxes to his call for another cut in the state's grocery tax, Gov.

Several tax cuts approved by the Arkansas House, including a proposed one-day sales tax holiday and a $42 million cut in the income tax on capital gains, have gotten a chilly reception in a Senate committee.

Several House-backed tax cut proposals have met their demise in the Senate as state officials warn there's little room in the Arkansas' strapped budget for much more relief.

The Legislature has business to attend to before wrapping up the regular session this week.

Over the objections of state finance officials, the House Revenue and Taxation Committee endorsed six proposed tax cuts Thursday, including a capital gains tax break of nearly $43 million.

Secretary of State Charlie Daniels' proposal to require every county to hire an election coordinator cleared a state House of Representatives panel on Friday.

The following persons made first appearance at Faulkner County Circuit Court Friday: Deborah Kay Stark, 46, 9 Jerry St., Conway, according to a Faulkner County Sheriff's Office jail intake report.

The House on Friday narrowly passed a bill that would allow physicians and podiatrists to delegate some procedures to unlicensed employees, despite opposition from a nurses' association.

Ernest Dumas in the Arkansas Leader lauds House passage -- opposed by the usual Republicans -- of an expansion of the program to provide health insurance for children of lower income working families.

The children of five former or current University of Central Arkansas trustees have gotten hefty discounts on their tuition costs and fees.

Discussion in a state House of Representatives committee Friday about whether to make the blue catfish the official state fish at times hugged the murky bottom of legislative banter.

ANDY SHUPE Northwest Arkansas Times The Fayetteville City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a conditional-use permit for Lowlife Tattoo, located along Archiball Yell Boulevard in Fayetteville, as seen in this ...

If tobacco users feel like they have a big target on their backs, they're right.

Now things are starting to pop in Little Rock. Within about 2 1/2 hours Thursday the House voted to raise one tax while the Senate voted to cut another.

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To protect the statea TMs cigarette smokers from higher taxes that might discourage them from killing themselves and running up health care costs for all of us, state Rep.

A group of Republican legislators Tuesday proposed raising fines for a number of violent crimes and traffic violations to pay for a statewide trauma system, promoting the measure as an alternative to Gov.

Rep. Karen Hopper and Sen. Johnny Key, both Mountain Home Republicans, are among the cosponsors of Rep.