Stories of alleged beatings and sexual abuse prompted Arkansas child-welfare officials to seize 20 children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, an official said Wednesday.
Gov. Mike Beebe on Thursday called for a 1-cent cut in the state's sales tax on groceries in a $4.4 billion balanced-budget proposal that leaves out nearly $146 million in funding for Medicaid programs, prisons and other state services.
The price of a Thanksgiving dinner has gone up from last year, but the Arkansas Farm Bureau says a family can still put a good holiday meal on the table for about $4 per person.
A page on a Google-operated Web site appears to forecast influenza outbreaks by tracking the volume of people who use the search engine to send queries about flu symptoms.
Arkansas transportation officials are preparing a list of infrastructure projects that could benefit from federal funding under a new stimulus package.
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 1999 act "unmistakably" allowed payday lenders to charge triple and maybe even quadruple-digit interest rates in violation of the state constitution, which limits interest rates to 17 percent.
Arkansas was a flyover state for Barack Obama's campaign, but the state's congressional delegation doesn't plan on that happening during his presidency.
The last time Arkansas didn't go in the winner's column in a presidential contest, the state backed a segregationist third-party candidate, a Republican governor and a Democratic senator. This time, the results were just as weird.
Incumbents held on to their seats, Democrats lost a few spots and voters elected the first Green Party member to the state Legislature in voting Tuesday.
Among the major issues on the Arkansas ballot, voters supported matters the Legislature declined to deal with.
Voters passed a measure banning unmarried couples living together from serving as adoptive or foster parents. Legislators declined to advance a similar measure during their last regular session.
Democrat Mark Pryor has won a second term to the United States Senate, defeating a Green Party nominee who was the only candidate to challenge the senator's re-election bid.
Republican John McCain won Clinton country Tuesday with support from Arkansas' traditionally conservative voting bloc as well as Democrats loyal to the state's former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband.
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