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The House minority leader slammed Gov. Mike Beebe’s proposal to raise the state severance tax Wednesday and said most other House Republicans oppose the plan. Rep. Johnny Key, R-Mountain Home, said the agreement Beebe unveiled a day earlier to increase the tax companies pay for extracting natural gas in the state would have “detrimental economic effects.”
A forgotten phone call meant a female prisoner spent four days without food or water in a tiny closet in the Washington County courthouse. The bailiff has been suspended without pay for 30 days.
The parents of a boy who attends school in the North Little Rock district alleged Wednesday the district has failed to comply with federal disability laws, and that failure creates hardships for students who use wheelchairs.
A woman who police say helped start last month’s melee in Little Rock’s Boyle Park has been arrested on charges of aggravated assault and inciting a riot. Police say Lisa Davidson of Little Rock and her daughter went to the park armed with chased a young woman who had fought Williams at the park that day.
Dwayne Dobbins, an ex-lawmaker who has filed as a candidate for a state House of Representatives seat, was placed in 2006 on the state’s Child Maltreatment Central Registry.
Dillard’s is planning to close stores in Richmond, Virginia and Greeley, Col. cutting 100 jobs.
A Wal-Mart employee, who suffered headaches after accidentally breathing cleaning chemicals through an office ventilation system, met her burden of proof and is entitled to additional medical treatment, the state Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday. The decision reversed a ruling by the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation denying benefits.
Little Rock City Directors are considering a sales tax increase after the city ended 2007 with a $3 million deficit.
Harry Ward, the former Chancellor at the UAMS, credited with much of the building on that campus from 1979 to 2000, is dead at 74.
A draft of bylaws being considered by the U.S. Marshals Museum Board of Directors has raised concerns among board members about whether they should be expected to make annual monetary donations. In a draft a fundraising policy calls for board members to make the Marshals Museum a priority in their personal giving.
Prosecutors say a man accused of killing a University of Arkansas student from Greenbrier could face the death penalty over the slaying, despite his claims he blacked out and couldn’t remember what happened.
A season-opener at Texas A&M, a long homestand and a late-season trip to Alabama highlight Arkansas State’s 2008 football schedule.
John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am.
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