U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln opposes adding new abortion restrictions to legislation overhauling the nation’s health care system. Lincoln says she supports the current federal restrictions on abortion funding but said the House amendment goes too far by prohibiting what private plans can offer.
The Arkansas Department of Health has set tentative dates for a second round of mass flu-vaccination clinics in counties statewide starting Nov. 30 through Jan. 15.
Suspended Circuit Judge L.T. Simes III will request a hearing asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to suspend him last week
Despite widespread mold, bean-killing worms and enough rain to warrant federal disaster declarations, the state’s soybean crop is projected to exceed 128 million bushels, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Tuesday. That’s the highest since farmers harvested a record144 million bushels 30 years ago.
AT&T announced that core wireline employees in its southwest region have voted to ratify a four-year agreement with the Communications Workers of America. There will be 3% raises for the next two years and employees will pay part of their health insurance starting in 2011.
A Pulaski County jury finds Curtis Vance guilty of all charges in connection with the murder of Ann Pressly. The trail moves to the penalty phase today. Prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
A suspect was shot and killed after he threatened to shoot Fort Smith police officers responding to a domestic disturbance.
Several alleged illegal gambling outfits around Jefferson County were shut down as about 100 law enforcement officers executed eight search warrants.
Two Wynne convenience store clerks got the scare of a lifetime when two armed men simultaneously robbed them at separate cash registers. Surveillance cameras got good pictures of the suspects.
A family medical clinic in Booneville is closed after the arrest of the clinic’s nurse practitioner on a drug charge.
A pilot of a stunt plane was injured when it crashed into a field next to a model airplane airstrip in south Siloam Springs.
The small brick home where Daisy Bates and husband L.C. Bates lived in south-central Little Rock officially opens as a museum to honor the couple for their work in pushing civil rights.
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