Arkansas News Archives

Heavily armed police in Seattle raided the house of a suspect in the killing of four police officers on Monday, only to find the man had already gone.

" The second round of statewide mass vaccination clinics designed to immunize Arkansans against both seasonal and H1N1 influenza will begin next Monday , the Arkansas Department of Health announced today.

Clemmons, who had a lengthy prison sentence commuted by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee nearly a decade ago, became the prime target Sunday in the search for the killer of Lakewood Police Sgt.

It's the time of year for the spirit of giving, but the Arkansas Foodbank does that every day.

Dick Morris knows Arkansas politics. No one else can lay claim to being an intimate strategic adviser to both our state's most famous recent governors, meaning Bill Clinton of the Democrats, who became president, and Mike Huckabee of the Republicans, who - panic alert - might yet become president.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he's leaning slightly against running for president in 2012 but says it's far too early to say what he will do.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel warns Arkansans to read the fine print on gift cards this holiday season.

It's something many Arkansans think about this time of year, a trip to the Christmas tree farm can be fun for the whole family.

Arkansas ranked 40th in the nation in overall health in this year's America's Health Rankings report.

At long last, the only boll weevil left in Arkansas is the University of Arkansas-Monticello mascot.

Manny, Sid and Diego are back in this rollicking animated adventure. This time, the trio flee their melting homeland and meet a female mammoth who thinks she's a possum.

A spokeswoman for the state prison system says the Arkansas Board of Corrections has approved early parole hearings for 648 inmates in an effort to ease prison crowding.

It was June 1, when an El Dorado police officer lost his leg after he was hit by a drunk driver.

East End Elementary and East End Intermediate schools have been certified as Litter-Free Zones by Keep Arkansas Beautiful .

Denver Dispatch WITH SADNESS, THE ARKANSAS DELEGATION LETS GO, AND BARACK OBAMA BECOMES THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE by Ted Manna and Joe Shea American Reporter Correspondent Denver, Colo.

One of the United Way's most popular programs, the 211 help line, is being forced to shut down in Arkansas due to the struggling economy.

Food Banks rely on donations year-round, but especially during the holidays. When someone hacked into Arkansas Rice Depot's website, the food bank potentially lost donations.

Larry Norris , director of the state Correction Department , notified the governor's office earlier this week that he intends to retire Jan.

Before the 2008 election, almost nobody outside Alaska and Arkansas had heard of Sarah Palin or Mike Huckabee.

Iowa Republicans would support a run by Sarah Palin for the 2012 presidential nomination, The Des Moines Register's Iowa Poll released Monday indicated.

We got a tip yesterday that Bridgette Frazier had left her job as legal counsel for the Arkansas lottery.

Hard to believe. Somebody hacked the Arkansas Rice Depot website and did all kinds of mischief.

Locating missing children, regardless of age, can be a challenging task. Thata s why all law enforcement agencies in Saline County are using a new tool that might help.

The Senate Agriculture Committee held a field hearing in Arkansas Monday. Chairman Blanche Lincoln said putting the economy back on the right track is her number one priority.

Hundreds have lined up at a Birmingham-area book store in hopes of meeting two key Republican players in last year's presidential race.

As Sarah Palin embarked on a tour for her just published book "Going Rogue," she became the latest prospective Republican presidential candidate to criticize the Obama administration's policy on Israel.

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.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:57 a.m. Read more: State , Politics , Local , Huckabee , Grand Rapids , A Simple Christmas , Presidential Campaign , 2012 GRAND RAPIDS -- Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee was back in Michigan this time not as a candidate, but as an author with a message from his book a oeA Simple Christmas.a A But other ...

When Quinlan Swain came home from school one afternoon and told his mom he wanted to job shadow NASA for career day, she says she wasn't sure how to make it happen.

Here's that study mentioned earlier on the disproportionate tax burden faced by poor and lower-income working families.

A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so.

The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, faces a crucial test of his primacy in trying to open debate on health care.

In the tradition of connecting national leaders with our state's business community, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that former governor, best-selling author and number one rated weekend television host Mike Huckabee will be the featured speaker at the Annual Meeting Dinner on January 11, 2010.

Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee due to crop losses from a combination of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.

LITTLE ROCK - The Arkansas Lottery Commission has signed off on the state selling Mega Millions tickets starting next year.

Sarah Palin will be in Fayetteville next month to sign copies of her new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life." The former vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor will be at a Fayetteville Sam's Club on Dec.

There are a host of new games ahead for the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery. On Tuesday, the Arkansas Lottery Commission meets to discuss what the next few months will bring to the table.

The administration director of the Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division wants everyone who serves or sells alcohol to receive training.

Arkansas is up to 19 swine flu deaths and as we've reported, some victims have been children, and others, seemingly healthy adults.

The Peabody Hotel at Little Rock says it is the first hotel in Arkansas to be awarded four stars in the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide.

Some of the more than 13-thousand deer harvested across the state in the hunting season Saturday will help feed thousands of hungry Arkansans.

There's a likely GOP 2012 presidential candidate who is a former governor, darling of the party's conservative base, and the leader of nearly every early presidential poll .

This year the Clinton School Of Public Service marks it's fifth anniversary. While offering the country's first master's degree in public service, the Clinton School also is contributing to the state in other, surprising ways.

Small towns and communities across Arkansas have aging water and sewer systems in desperate need of repairs but no money to pay for them.

Forty-three "career coaches" will be placed in high schools around Arkansas next year to help students chart their college and career goals, state officials announced Monday.

Special to the Daily Record ecnobles@att.net Thanks to low interest rates, dropping prices and a tax credit, homes sales were up in September as compared to the same month a year ago.

After a month of watching promising crops succumb to fungus and other ills caused by record rainfall, Arkansas farmers were running combines and pickers full tilt this week to reap what's left in the fields before the next rain falls.

The Pledge of Allegiance is recited in schools across the country. But one fifth-grader in Arkansas sits out during his class' recitation of the pledge because of his objection to one particular line.

Governor Mike Beebe's weekly column and radio address: "I know from my own life's experience that the opportunity for success begins with a good education.

The Walmart Foundation and the Walmart Legal Department have donated $100,000 to provide legal services to low-income people in four east Arkansas counties.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln says the Senate's agriculture committee will meet in Arkansas later this month for a field hearing on how to strengthen and grow Arkansas' rural economy.

Governor Beebe hands out thousands of dollars in grants to two dozen Arkansas communities today.

With his state under an emergency declaration because of heavy rain and floods Thursday, Virginia Gov.

Ida Rose is a 70-year-old grandmother of five, and she's a pretty good deer hunter too.

November 12, 2009, 7:09 AM / No due date for Dion... Canadian pop singer Celine Dion isn't pregnant after all.

Vandy Nash of North Little Rock has been named the 2010 Arkansas Teacher of the Year.

A man who told police he had been hoping to steal a laptop was convicted of capital murder Wednesday in the beating of an Arkansas TV anchorwoman so brutal that her face was shattered and she never regained consciousness.

The Arkansas Board of Education has rejected three more applications for new charter schools in the state.

Gov. Mike Beebe has named 46 more Arkansas counties as disaster areas following severe storms caused tornadoes and flooding last month.

The Arkansas Department of Health says 18 people have died from complications of swine flu since Aug.

How many cans can a can-man stack if a can-man can stack cans? That question could be answered Friday at the University of Arkansas in what the school is calling a "Canstruction" competition.

Forty-three "career coaches" will be placed in Arkansas high schools in January to offer additional career guidance to students, Gov.

An official with St. Joseph Catholic Church in Pine Bluff wants the Catholic Diocese of Little Rock to petition for sainthood for a nun who died in 1839 and is buried near Pine Bluff.

HACKETT, Ark. a ' City officials from small Arkansas and Oklahoma towns are to meet in western Arkansas as they look for funding for a fleet of non-emergency medical vans.

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Gov. Mike Beebe says not all the federal stimulus money coming to Arkansas is going to creation of jobs - and that's good.

A top official at the Pine Bluff Arsenal says it could be only about a year before the Army chemical-weapons destruction operation in Arkansas finishes its task.

Compared to other counties, Little River County has a somewhat brief courthouse timeline.

A moment of silence is being observed Friday afternoon at 1:34 by the Arkansas National Guard in honor of Thursday's tragedy at Fort Hood.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says he hasn't decided if he's going to run for president in 2012 - " yet.

The images of Arkansans waiting in line for hours last week to get their flu shots reminds us of how serious this flu season is turning out to be.

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A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child's body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.

State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly $225 million.

Gov. Mike Beebe says that a proposal in the House to overhaul the nation's health care system could add $205 million to the state's budget by 2015.

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Saturday and Sunday puts the preacher-turned-politician, who is also a... A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Saturday and Sunday puts the preacher-turned-politician, who is also a host of a weekend talk show on Fox News Channel, at the top of a list of prospective GOP contenders.

An Oklahoma environmental group says it has asked the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission to suspend a permit granted more than two years ago for a sewage-treatment plant that would discharge into a tributary of the Illinois River, which flows into northeast Oklahoma.

A recent poll conducted by the University of Arkansas shows that Sen. Blanche Lincoln's approval rating is at its lowest level since she took office in 1999.

Mike Huckabee's book signing at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Watermark Books and Cafe in Wichita is his only Kansas stop on his 60-city tour.

I recently spent a day touring Waldron in western Arkansas. The town, located in Scott County, is home to 3,500 people, and is similar to many other small towns around the State.

Former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 GOP presidential contender Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that Dede Scozzafavaa TMs nomination was a 'train wreck.' Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO Former Arkansas Gov.

November is Adoption Awareness Month around the nation, and Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe plans to call attention to that on Wednesday.

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Arkansas First Lady Ginger Beebe joined representatives from the Walmart Foundation and CARTI at a press conference held Tuesday to announce a $60,000 grant being presented by the Arkansas retailer to the radiation therapy provider.

Gov. Mike Beebe says he's concerned about the impact that an Arkansas law banning unmarried couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents is having on children who need good homes.

Award-winning works from the Young Artists Competition and Exhibition will be on display at the Baxter County Library through Nov.

U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln had a 30 minute sit down with President Obama Tuesday with Arkansas constituents in mind.

Arkansas finance officials said Tuesday that the state collected $17.8 million less than expected last month, as state agencies prepared to detail their plans for cutting budgets.

State health officials say 172,873 doses of seasonal and swine flu vaccine were given in mass clinics around Arkansas late last week.

The National Association of Free Clinics has established a toll-free patient-appointment telephone number and a volunteer-registration Web site for the free medical clinic scheduled for Saturday, November 21, at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock, Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter announced today.

Arkansans have been able to play Powerball for about two days now and we're two days away from the first drawing.

Gov. Mike Beebe says Arkansas now ranks 46th in per-capita personal income, up from 47th last year.

Mike Huckabee is returning to his roots as a southern Baptist preacher with a new book recounting his favorite Christmas memories, more than a year after his unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

LITTLE ROCK - Central Arkansas is on track to set a new high for annual rainfall, with two months of the year remaining and the total for 2009 already less than 8 inches shy of the current record of 75.54 inches in 1882.

A man accused of killing a popular Arkansas television personality is going on trial.

Popular television personality Anne Pressly never regained consciousness after she was found in her bed, brutally beaten by an intruder.

Arkansas' Powerball game kicks off tonight at 10:15 p.m. We've had scratch-off tickets in the state for over a month now.

North Little Rock Fire Department Lt. Jeff Jeffries, right, and firefighter Brian Miller mark automobiles in a flooded intersection in North Little Rock on Friday after hours of heavy rains Thursday and early Friday.

A new poll shows many people in Arkansas don't consider the lottery a winner for the state.