Large-scale farms would disproportionately benefit from a $1.5 billion disaster aid package for which Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she's secured funding, an advocacy group said in a report released Thursday.
A suspended east Arkansas judge denied Thursday that he used his influence to reinstate a fired police chief as a judicial ethics panel weighed whether to recommend further sanctions.
Authorities say a Forrest City woman is in serious condition after she was allegedly shot in the stomach by her father.
Officials plan to raise fees for lodging and camp sites at Arkansas State Parks by 10 percent.
The chairman of Arkansas' Republican Party said Tuesday he's considering filing a lawsuit against the state's top elected officials over their personal use of state-issued vehicles, accusing them of violating the constitution.
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on Monday said he'll reimburse the state $2,903 for personal use of his state vehicle and apologized to Lt. Gov. Bill Halter for criticism he leveled at Halter for reporting the use of his state car as personal income.
The Regional Medical Center at Memphis is getting $30 million from the state to help the financially troubled hospital stay afloat.
The sentencing hearing for a young West Tennessee man in a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama has been delayed in Jackson.
Supporters of a small Arkansas school district have filed a federal lawsuit against the state, arguing that the closure of rural schools threatens the country's security and food supply.
Arkansas State Conservationist Mike Sullivan says the state may receive as much as $3.3 million to develop and enhance habitat for birds making their annual migration south toward the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of a top aide to Gov. Mike Beebe as head of the Delta Regional Authority, a federal agency that works to enhance the economy of the impoverished Mississippi Delta region in eight states.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Keet said Tuesday that an Arkansas law requiring small school districts to consolidate should probably be changed, a move that Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe said would invite new lawsuits.
A Seattle cruise line plans Mississippi River excursions next year with routes between New Orleans and Memphis, Tenn., and between Memphis and Nashville, Tenn.
The Greene County Tech School District has been ordered by a judge to turn over to a newspaper several documents relating to suspensions of assistant football coaches after a playoff trip in November.
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln survived a bruising Democratic runoff thanks to former President Bill Clinton's starpower and her argument that labor unions were trying to interfere in state politics.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced a program Thursday in which its workers can receive college credit from the online American Public University and receive a tuition discount from the school.
A January trial has been set for a 19-year-old charged in the Christmas Eve shooting death of a Salvation Army major in North Little Rock.
Early voting opens Tuesday for runoff elections for a handful of state and federal offices in Arkansas, but history suggests that few voters will return to the polls for the followup.
Almost three-quarters of children on Medicaid in nine states are not getting all of their legally required medical, vision and hearing examinations, including immunizations, according to a new government study.
Two police officers doing anti-drug work along a busy Arkansas interstate were shot and killed by two men with AK-47s on Thursday, and the suspects later died in a separate shootout with police in a crowded Walmart parking lot, authorities said.
