Gov. Mike Beebe gave a vote of confidence to the state prison director and Board of Correction, a day after members of a legislative panel questioned the leadership of the prison system.
The state lottery commission has approves Powerball.
U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that more than $297 million is now available for Arkansas under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Arkansas will be eligible to apply for another $146 million this fall.
Judge Andree Roaf, who’d served by appointment to the Arkansas Supreme Court as its first black woman, died in her Little Rock office. She was 68. She had been serving as director of the federal court office that monitors the Pulaski County desegregation case.
Failing to comply with reporting requirements for sex offenders is not an offense that can be punished with an order of restitution, the state Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
A judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Arkansas child-welfare officials infringed on the religious freedoms of members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.
The president and chief executive officer of St. Vincent Health System states that the hospital has fired more people for illegally accessing the medical records of Anne Pressly than those who were charged in federal court Monday.
An East Camden flare manufacturing plant will remain closed until company officials complete their investigation into an explosion that sent six employees to the hospital.
Sale of 13 Golden Living nursing homes and an assisted living center won’t affect the Fort Smith corporate headquarters,
A survey of business leaders in nine Midwestern and Plains states, including Arkansas, suggests that the region’s economy continues to show signs of improvement, but job losses persist.
Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle set bail at $1 million Wednesday morning for each of the three young adults charged in the shooting death of a southwest Little Rock man during a robbery inside his home.
A Russellville man was arrested after allegedly breaking into two rail cars at the Tyson Foods Distribution Center and stealing two boxes of chicken,
Legendary actor Karl Malden is dead at 97. In addition to his lengthy film credits is a basketball scholarship to Arkansas Teachers College. That would have been before WWII.
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