LITTLE ROCK – The legislative Joint Adequacy Evaluation Oversight Subcommittee on Monday backed off of its recommendation to increase per-student school funding by $69 million next year.

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LITTLE ROCK – A state panel seeking new ways to pay for badly needed highway improvements will have to win over the public to any new revenue sources it recommends, Gov. Mike Beebe said Monday.

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LITTLE ROCK – The Legislature has the authority to give individual counties the option to enact an ordinance providing for nonpartisan elections, an option cities already have, Attorney General Dustin

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LITTLE ROCK – Photos, letters and notes between constituents and elected officials tell a collective story of Arkansas’ past, but records grow bulky and archivists commonly face a lack of personnel, m

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Authorities believe a man who was shot while attempting to rob a Fort Smith pharmacy Monday morning may have been arrested in Oklahoma.

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WALDRON – Forty years after he claimed his first victim, Clifford Mac Ritter was sentenced to consecutive life terms Monday for the shotgun slayings of two men near the Bates community in May 2009.

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BOONEVILLE – The Booneville City Council voted Monday to petition the Booneville Community Hospital board to “take care of problems” at the beleaguered, city-owned hospital.

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LITTLE ROCK – A new poll shows U.S. Rep. Mike Ross, D-Prescott, holding an 18-point lead over Republican challenger Beth Anne Rankin in the 4th District congressional race.

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Attorney General Sues Roofing Firm

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The Center for Lifelong Learning at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith will offer even more opportunities for the community to grown and learn with its selection of classes this fall.

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