Republican legislators and labor unions both heaped criticism on the U.S. Senate health care bill. Republican lawmakers said the bill would bust Arkansas’ budget, while labor leaders said the measure offers no meaningful reform.
Gov. Mike Beebe told a newly formed panel he wants objective data on whether racial profiling is a problem in Arkansas, months after signing a new seat belt law that civil rights advocates warned could lead to police harassment.
The first recommendation on how to raise more money for highways – shifting $425 million annually from general revenue – ran into immediate opposition from Gov. Mike Beebe.
In a shift from previous years, the Game and Fish Commission will hold five public hearings and air a statewide call-in show on public television next month to gather public input for setting hunting regulations
The Supreme Court today overturned Pulaski County’s hurried-up collection of a new property tax for the Central Arkansas Library System. That will mean budget cuts in 2010.
Little Rock lawyer John Wesley Hall has filed a proposed ballot measure with the attorney general to legalize medical marijuana.
Little Rock firefighters will defer a 4 percent pay raise until July, when the capital city will know whether it can afford to follow through on its contract with unions.
Southwestern Energy Company reports a planned capital investment program for 2010 of approximately $2.1 billion, including approximately $1.5 billion of planned investments in its Fayetteville Shale play in Arkansas.
The use of bird manure as fertilizer does not affect the Illinois River nor Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma to “any significant extent,” an environmental engineer testified in U.S. District Court in the lawsuit against Arkansas poultry interests.
Windmill blade maker LM Glasfiber has a contract to produce a minimum of 1,800 windmill blades in the U.S. for Samsung, which is launching a new line of 2.5-megawatt wind turbines. Glassfiber has plants in Little Rock and Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Construction on a $1.3 billion natural-gas pipeline that will connect central Arkansas to a network around the nation will begin in January now that the plan is approved by FERC. The 185-mile, pipeline would link Conway County and Panola County in Mississippi.
The overall economic picture for the Little Rock zone of the Eighth Federal Reserve District is mixed, according to the St. Louis branch’s latest Burgundy Book.
Consultants partially paid by the city of Fort Smith aggressively pushed the idea of a $20 million baseball park as the key part of an 85-acre riverfront development plan during a special study session of the Fort Smith Board of Directors.
George Thompson of Cabot — accused of bookmaking, drug dealing, immigration violations and illegal gun dealing in federal indictments that also implicated two North Little Rock aldermen, figured prominently in a Boston news conference in which federal prosecutors announced charges against Ralph Deleo, reputed boss of the Columbo crime family.
An extension has been granted for the appeal of the man convicted of killing Little Rock television anchor Anne Pressly. Lawyers need a full trial transcript to complete their appeal and the extension gives the court stenographer time to complete the transcript.
Authorities are searching for a man they say swiped a Salvation Army donation bucket outside of a Sherwood Walmart.
A woman and her adult son were killed in a fire at their mobile home in Benton.
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