LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Higher Education Director Jim Purcell was chosen Thursday to lead Louisiana’s higher education agency.

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WASHINGTON — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday that a 2012 presidential run is “very much” an option for him.

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LITTLE ROCK – Old Glory Red and Old Glory Blue, or their equivalents, would be the official colors of the Arkansas flag under a bill filed Thursday.

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A Sebastian County jury is deliberating in the resentencing case of convicted killer James Aaron Miller.

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The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation arrested a former Sallisaw police officer Thursday after he allegedly lied about being shot by a man accusing him of cattle rustling.

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Voters still may weigh in on a 1 percent prepared-food tax ordinance, which received its last reading at a Thursday meeting of the Fort Smith Board of Directors.

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A handful of the 200 people attending a Thursday night public meeting on consolidating Fort Smith’s mail processing operation with Fayetteville’s acknowledged the plan just might work — as long as For

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A defense expert who diagnosed convicted murderer James Aaron Miller with paranoid schizophrenia told a Sebastian County jury on Thursday that he observed Miller hallucinating when he evaluated him.

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SALLISAW — Saying he believes it his duty to look out for what’s best for the community, a district judge upheld the state’s objection to Daniel Hawke Fears’ participation in an outpatient program Thu

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LITTLE ROCK — The state Senate on Thursday approved a legislative mandate for cities of 5,000 or more to put fluoride in their water systems.

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