HUMNOKE — A four-seat, single engine airplane crashed just off of Highway 165 east of Humnoke this morning. The three passengers aboard were not injured.

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A controversial Congressional redistricting map is now headed for a showdown in the Senate.

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LITTLE ROCK — Voters will decide whether Arkansans will tax themselves extra to pay for a four-lane highway system after the Senate gave final legislative approval to a proposed constitutional amendment today.

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Shazam. The House defeated a corporate welfare constitutional amendment by a 19-65 vote. Opponents included an unlikely pairing of Republicans with Democratic Rep. Jim Nickels, a tribune for the working man. The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Jake Files and approved by the Senate, would have allowed development districts to be set up to capture local sales [...]

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LITTLE ROCK — The House today passed a redistricting bill that would put Fayetteville in the 4th District, but the measure could be headed for a Senate stalemate that could delay redrawing congressional district boundaries beyond Friday's scheduled recess of the regular session.

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A method for protecting companies from rapidly rising fuel prices isn’t the norm in Arkansas yet, but it could be coming.

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As expected, the Pig Trial/Fayetteville to the Fourth map passed the House today on a party line vote 52 to 46.  Rep. Lindsey (D-Fayetteville) was the lone Democrat House member to speak against it.  Roll call vote will be here eventually. The real question now is what does the Senate do.  After failing to pass [...]

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UALR has announced the successor to Mary Good, founding dean of its College of Engineering and Information Technology, who’s retiring June 30. He is Eric Sandgren, former dean of the University of Nevada college of engineering. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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A Senate committee this morning will consider a Senate bill offering a Democratic-backed congressional redistricting bill identical to Rep. Clark Hall’s bill, which cleared a House committee yesterday and should pass the House. With a 4-4 Senate committee partisan split, the Senate bill won’t clear committee. (UPDATE: Indeed, it did not.) Here’s Republican Sen. Johnny Key’s [...]

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