It is reported that the new lottery may become a part of the mult-state Powerball game.
A prison guard has been fired after a mishandled medical emergency that nearly resulted in the death of an inmate.
Authorities say visits with inmates have temporarily been suspended at the federal prison in Forrest City because of an outbreak of a “suspected gastrointestinal virus,”
The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will lead a team of Arkansas researchers looking for signs of life on Mars.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will establish a satellite banking supervision office in Little Rock. Seven bank examiners will be housed in the new office by the end of 2009, and the Fed plans to add three more in 2010.
About 900 people are confirmed to attend Wal-Mart’s Brazil Sustainability Summit, which is underway in Sao Paolo.
Wal-Mart needs to make its price-matching policies clearer and stop claiming in a television commercial that viewers can save more than $700 a year buying groceries in its stores, according to the National AdvertisingDivision of the BBB.
The Hot Springs Convention and Visitors Bureau is offering 5,000 car-driving Hot Springs and Garland County residents a free front license plate to serve as a billboard for the city.
The death of two Springdale children inside a trunk has indirectly pitted two of the big three auto makers against each other. A safety foundation asked GM to recall its 2000-01 sedans and refit their trunks with emergency-release latches. Ford has supposedly been installing the latches for a decade.
Former Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is among the speakers at the Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville, Ky.
The case of Curtis Vance, accused of raping a woman in Marianna, is being continued, pending a mental evaluation. Vance is also accused in the murder of television anchor Anne Presley.
A North Little Rock man facing child rape charges in Lonoke County has been arrested in Little Rock. Nicholas Tarkington faces two counts of child rape.
Arkansas State Police say an overturned tractor trailer filled with hogs on Interstate 430 closed a stretch of the highway connecting Little Rock to North Little Rock.
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