Nearly 70 percent of Arkansas voters would support raising taxes on beer, wine and liquor to provide more drug and alcohol treatment programs to addicts, according to a poll released Monday.
For the first time, more than 60 percent of Arkansas students at each grade level scored at or above proficient on both the mathematics and literacy Arkansas Augmented Benchmark Exams.
The Decatur and Greenland school districts ended the 2008-09 school year in the black after being taken over by the state in 2008 because of financial troubles, the districts’ state-appointed superintendents reported Monday to the state Board of Education.
Arkansas’ lottery has hired the Grant County Sheriff Lance Huey to run security for the new games of chance. He will be paid about $115,000.
A federal judge has ruled that prosecutors can’t bring up polygamy during the trial of jailed evangelist Tony Alamo. A federal judge began questioning prospective jurors on the first day of jailed evangelist Tony Alamo’s trial on charges that he took young girls across state lines for sex.
The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, after more than 10 years of work and research, is only steps away from getting its first ever doctoral program.
Seventy-five years ago this week, 11 whites and seven blacks met near the eastern Poinsett County town of Tyronza and formed the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union.
The Little Rock house in which television news anchor Anne Pressly was fatally attacked in October was demolished and cleared from the lot.
InterContinental Hotels Group, owners of Holiday Inn Worldwide, has been ordered to pay $25 million in fraud damages over its dealings with an West Memphis man involving a hotel in Texas.
Bryant is the only city in Arkansas (at No. 86) to make a CNN/Money list of the best 100 small towns in the U.S.
Authorities are investigating how an Arkansas native died Sunday in what they call a voodoo cleaning ritual in a southern New Jersey town house. 21-year-old Lucille Hamilton, who is reported to be a biological male, was found unresponsive.
Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation announced $5.4 million from the Department of Transportation to fund various transportation needs in Central Arkansas.
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