Prescott News

A two-year old Arkansas boy is dead tonight after being attacked by a pit bull. The little boy has now been identified as Matthew Clayton Hurt of Prescott, Arkansas.

Matthew Clayton Hurt was pronounced dead Wednesday at a hospital in Texarkana after he was taken there following the attack that morning.

U.S. Rep. Mike Ross' office Wednesday dismissed as routine a U.S. Justice Department response to a group calling for an investigation into the congressman's sale of a family pharmacy to an Arkansas drugstore chain.

U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Prescott, looked perplexed today when a woman told him she opposes government involvement in health care - but also mentioned that her husband is on Medicare.

LITTLE ROCK - Mike Ross has enjoyed a higher profile nationally as he's taken a bigger role in the health care debate.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has stood up editorially for poor U.S. Rep. Mike Ross , who made a milliion selling his family's Prescott drug store to a chain and who has been, coincidentally, honored for his work in Congress for chain drug stores.

Governor Mike Beebe and state economic officials will travel to Europe in early October to meet with leaders of businesses invested in Arkansas.

PRESCOTT, Ark. -- Rep. Mike Ross said in a letter to the Web site Politico that a story raising questions about the sale of his family-owned drug store to a pharmacy chain was "flat-out wrong." The online journalism group ProPublica this week raised questions about the $420,000 sale to USA Drug and also a non-compete contract given to Ross' wife ...

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An Arkansas congressman who faces criticism over the sale of his drug store says that he sold the pharmacy to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.

An Arkansas-based pharmacy chain paid $420,000 for Prescott, Ark., property owned by Rep.

President Barack Obama has promised world leaders that they will get cooperation from a newly cooperative America.

A watchdog group is asking the Justice Department to look into the 2007 sale of a drug store owned by a congressman who is a key figure in the national health care debate.The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington questioned Wednesday whether the $420,000 that USA Drug paid Rep.

Rep. Mike Ross of Arkansasa 'a key player and industry advocate in the national health care debatea 'sold his family's drug store to a pharmacy chain in 2007 for much more than it appears to be worth, according to a joint investigation by ProPublica and Politico .

Ross sold Holly's Health Mart in Prescott, Ark., to USA Drug at an eye-popping price for real estate in a tiny train and lumber town.

Congress likely will pass health care reform by the end of the year, but probably without a government-run option, U.S. Rep.

Gov. Mike Beebe today announced appointments to 23 state boards and commissions.

Passing health care reform in Congress will take bipartisan effort, despite some talk by Democrats in favor of going it alone, U.S. Rep.

A man sought by Fayetteville police for attempted murder turned himself in Sunday morning.

Mike Ross calls back. Suddenly hea s a Beltway insider and hot commodity, a dramatic transformation from the over-eager, bright-eyed lad I got to know in 1982 when he was driving Bill Clinton in the epic gubernatorial comeback campaign.