LITTLE ROCK — A western Arkansas senator accused of leading a Perry County sheriff’s deputy on a high-speed car chase this week has been charged with fleeing, careless driving and improper passing.

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Coming into last week, the Danville Lady Little Johns did not have a Conference 2A-4 East loss. At the end of Thursday’s play they had two, with both coming against Magazine.

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Everybody feels out of place every now and then, I guess. Of course it is always worse when it is happening to you.

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After a stinging loss at Waldron that was affected by the illness of several players, the Booneville Lady Bearcats had a gut-check at home against 4A-4 co-leaders Dover last Thursday. The team rose to the occasion, making one of the bigger turnarounds in recent memory with a 59-53 victory over the Lady Pirates that [...]

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Gas companies that use the hydraulic fracturing process – a drilling technique that uses millions of gallons of water, combined with a fair amount of chemicals, to crack shale formations and extract natural gas – are exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, unless they use diesel as part of the frack fluid. And, guess [...]

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The Rep announced today that it exceeded its $5.4 million, four-year capital campaign plan. Which means that it raised enough to receive a $600,000 Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation, bringing the grand total to $6,043,384. Pretty impressive considering the theater had to also raise $1.5 million annually, throughout the last four years, just to [...]

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The federal judge in Florida, a Reagan appointee out of Pensacola, has ruled the entire health care reform law unconstitutional. He was considering mostly the individual mandate, but, upon finding the individual mandate to be an illegal assertion of federal authority, he declared the mandate so integral to the entire health reform law that he [...]

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As noted a couple weeks ago, Sen. Cecile Bledsoe (R-Rogers) filed a bill – SB113 – supported by Arkansas Right to Life that would make it clear that taxpayer funded abortions cannot be provided by new federal health care legislation.  SB113 would do this by requiring the insured to purchase a separate rider for abortion coverage. [...]

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LITTLE ROCK — The state House today has voted down a bill that would limit cell phone use and approved legislation to bar the state from paying for private lawyers for poor defendants.

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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ highest public education official says he supports a bill that would give the state Education Board the option of giving school districts more than two years to turn around their academic or fiscal distress before the state acts.

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