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School buses collide, six injured
Arkansas Comments Apr 30, 2013 6:12pmNORTH LITTLE ROCK — A half-dozen students were injured early Tuesday when two Batesville School District buses loaded with children collided here early Tuesday, state police said.
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Court ruling on in-state FOI limitation bolsters Arkansas law
Arkansas Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 4:35pmLITTLE ROCK — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a provision of Virginia law granting public access to government information only to residents of that state bolsters a similar limitation...
State Department commuters target of Mayflower oil spill ad
Arkansas Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 4:38pmWASHINGTON — The Mayflower oil spill has a starring role in an advertising campaign urging the State Department to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
For the next month, State Department...
Program aims to educate on Shaken Baby Syndrome
Arkansas Comments Updated: Apr 30, 2013 6:01pmLITTLE ROCK — A joint venture of Arkansas Children’s Hospital and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences educates new and expectant parents about one of the most severe forms of child...
Plan calls for phased return home for Mayflower oil spill evacuees
Arkansas Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 7:14pmLITTLE ROCK — On the one-month anniversary of the ExxonMobile pipeline rupture forced residents from a Mayflower subdivision, the company said Monday it would brief residents this week on a plan...
Latest ethics proposal rejected by AG
Arkansas Comments Apr 29, 2013 7:00pmLITTLE ROCK — Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on Monday rejected the name and ballot title of a proposed constitutional amendment to impose new ethics reforms on state legislators.
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First lottery scholarships awarded for 2013-14
Arkansas Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 6:57pmLITTLE ROCK — State higher education officials announced Monday that more than 10,000 high school seniors will receive lottery-funded college scholarships for the fall semester under the program’s...
Court affirms white supremacist’s death sentence in Ark. slayings
Arkansas Comments Updated: Apr 29, 2013 3:42pmLITTLE ROCK — A federal appeals panel Monday upheld the death sentence imposed on a white supremacist convicted in 1999 of slaying an Arkansas family as part of a plot to establish a whites-only...
Legislature’s political shift evident, advocates say
Arkansas Comments Apr 29, 2013 2:00amLITTLE ROCK — Even though Arkansas’ first General Assembly under Republican control since Reconstruction produced the broadest expansion of government-funded health care in generations, GOP...
Hundreds to be hired to help Arkansans enroll in insurance exchange
Arkansas Comments Apr 28, 2013 2:00amLITTLE ROCK — Expanding health care coverage in the state under the federal Affordable Care Act will be a massive undertaking that will require hiring hundreds of people to help guide thousands of...
