Arkansas News

Arkansas farmers say that a record amount of rainfall and flooding this year has put a strain on their crops and their infrastructure.

A fast food eatery near the University of Arkansas at Little Rock tipped the scales at $1.15 million.

A lot of women are talking about the new government recommendations that they wait until their fifties to get mammograms.

An alcohol incident involving a pledge has led to an investigation of a fraternity chapter at the University of Arkansas.

Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln's name was in the news as her health care vote proved to be a game changer.

The Senate voted on party lines Saturday night to overcome a Republican filibuster and bring to the floor a bill that would overhaul the nation's health-care system.

Temporary jobs are opening up across Arkansas, thanks to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Associated Press has named six news editors to oversee expanded multistate territories and has assigned four interim regional photo editors as part of a restructuring of U.S. news management to ensure the continuing strength of the news cooperative's state reports.

Earthy and natural are virtues of Joe Ward's newly arrived book "Come With Me," a readable account of innocent life in the Arkansas heartland.

Former President Bill Clinton has talked to two busloads of schoolchildren about his presidency and issues around the world during a visit to his library.

Aisha's Fish and Chicken is named for Stanley Walker's 16-year-old daughter; it's a small family business known for its wings, catfish and signature sauce.

Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen.

New figures are in on the number of unemployed Arkansans and the news is not good.

Police say thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions.

A state senator said that legalizing or lessening criminal penalties for marijuana may be one way to curb overcrowding in Arkansas' prisons.

President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day trip to Asia.

A nonprofit group's campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support their party's efforts to reform health care.

A former assistant director of a Christian camp is facing sexual indecency charges against 14- and 15-year-old boys who attended the camps.

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