Arkansas Government News

One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year has pleaded guilty in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty.

Colleges to begin new program By JASON WIEST Arkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK Select Arkansas community colleges plan to offer entrepreneurship curriculum beginning this fall with an eye toward fostering ...

An inmate who climbed out of a bathroom window at the Grant County jail and fled in a sheriff's department truck has been recaptured in Arkansas, authorities said Friday.

A proposed Arkansas ballot measure banning unmarried couples who live together from adopting or fostering children has been granted an extra 30 days to collect the needed signatures, the Associated Press ...

One of two men accused of killing four people aboard a fishing charter last year has pleaded guilty in exchange for prosecutors not seeking the death penalty.

A 53-year-old woman and her 44-year-old husband are suing over an Arkansas Department of Human Services policy that bans couples over 40 from adopting infants in foster care.

Supporters of a proposal aimed at barring homosexuals from adopting or fostering children did not gather enough signatures to get the measure on the November election ballot, the secretary of state's office ...

Beebe, a Democrat, announced Tuesday that the wife of his Republican predecessor, former Gov.

A campaign to create a state-run lottery to help pay for college scholarships reported Monday that it had raised more than $470,000. Lt.

A proposed constitutional amendment creating a state-run lottery has been approved to appear on this fall's ballot.

An apparent set of conjoined twin birds - an incredibly rare find - has been discovered in Arkansas, authorities said.The bodies of the barn swallows, which are attached at the hip by skin and possibly muscle ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 18 Jul 2008 The Arkansas HIV/AIDS Minority Task Force on Monday considered recommending to state lawmakers that ...

Lawyers for four Arkansas death-row inmates say "botched" executions show that the state's lethal injection method remains dangerous and inadequate.

July 16, 2008 Little Rock -- The Arkansas Department of Health has confirmed two human cases of West Nile virus in Arkansas in 2008.

A state legislator says she will renew her effort to convince her colleagues to institute an annual state sales-tax holiday on school supplies and clothing as a way to make it easier on parents to provide their ...

Arkansas cotton growers had to wait to plant this year because of the cool and rainy spring.

Associated Press - July 12, 2008 4:24 PM ET LITTLE ROCK - The African Methodist Episcopal Church has named a new bishop for the denomination's 12th Episcopal District that encompasses Arkansas and Oklahoma.

The Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission is conducting a survey of the box turtle population in the state, and getting lots of help from inquisitive Arkansans.

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Saturday he's not formally being vetted for the No.

Mike Huckabee says he doesn't care if his wife Janet's name is stripped from the banquet hall in the Arkansas Governor's Mansion where they lived for 101/2 years.