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Updated: May 24, 2013 5:02pm
WASHINGTON — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group launched a $350,000 advertising blitz Friday criticizing U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., for opposing an effort to strengthen background checks for gun sales.Mayors Against Illegal...
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Updated: May 24, 2013 12:01pm
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Friday he has made his choice on a replacement for Martha Shoffner as state treasure and will announce his decision next week. .
“We’ll announce it Wednesday,” the governor said. adding that the...
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May 23, 2013 6:27pm
LITTLE ROCK — The state Department of Human Services expects to submit a request in August for a federal waiver allowing Arkansas to use federal money to buy private insurance for thousands of the state’s working poor, DHS Director John Selig...
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Updated: May 23, 2013 5:33pm
WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of the Senate Democratic Caucus on Thursday criticized U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, as “an extreme ideologue” over an amendment he offered to the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013.
At a House Foreign...
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Updated: May 23, 2013 11:42am
LITTLE ROCK — The Searcy County sheriff is not eligible to hold office because of a 1979 misdemeanor theft conviction, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The state’s highest court overturned a Searcy County circuit judge’s ruling that...
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Updated: May 23, 2013 6:46pm
LITTLE ROCK — Trustees of Arkansas’ two largest university systems voted unanimously Thursday to opt out of a new law that allows college faculty and staff with permits to carry a concealed handgun on campus.
The governing boards of both...
