Arkansas News

A vote in Congress Tuesday night has tentatively eliminated the controversial public option from the Senate healthcare bill.

Dec. 3, 2009, 8:13 a.m. When the Arkansas Lottery awarded a contract to the Greece-based Intralot in August of this year, one requirement was that the lottery services company provide 100 ticket vending machines.

LITTLE ROCK - A town hall meeting featuring former Republican presidential nominee John McCain and two other GOP lawmakers has been canceled.

If it weren't for bad luck, Mike Huckabee would have no luck at all. Of all the deranged criminals in the country, Maurice Clemmons -- granted clemency by then-Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas almost a decade ago -- recently murdered four police officers in Washington state.

Arkansas' attorney general is asking the governor to set execution dates for three men on death row.

Apparently this was the only time Sarah Palin had to decide whether or not to pardon an Alaskan citizen.

Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart has won the Broyles Award, which goes to the nation's top assistant coach.

The updated Rabies Control Act has new rules passed by the State Board of Health that allow for a longer interval between rabies vaccinations for dogs and cats.

The Arkansas Department of Health kicked off another round of mass vaccination clinics but you don't have to go to a mass clinic to get it.

Arkansans could soon buy lottery tickets from vending machines. According to Lottery Director Ernie Passailaigue, the machines could be rolled out as early as spring 2010.

Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican candidate for Vice President, was in Northwest Arkansas Thursday for her "Going Rogue" book signing tour.

The Oxford American magazine's Southern Music issue is always something to look forward to.

Randy Veach was re-elected president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Friday at the organization's 75th annual convention at The Peabody Little Rock Friday.

I grew up in Vermont on a distinctly un-New England diet. In our white brick house in the small college town of Putney, we ate - in order of reviled to beloved, for me - boiled okra, kidneys with green peppers, black-eyed peas and fried chicken.

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Arkansas Nuclear One began operating 35 years ago, a start that changed the way Arkansas gets its electricity.

Gov. Mike Beebe plans to help the Arkansas Farm Bureau celebrate an important anniversary this week - its 75th.

Jodie Mahony, who championed education issues during more than three decades in the Arkansas Legislature died Saturday.

Republicans in Arkansas have an early indication of who their party may support to face off against Democrat Blanche Lincoln in next year's U.S. Senate race.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publishes, at no charge, death notices of reasonable length for residents of Benton, Carroll, Washington and Madison counties submitted by funeral homes.