Arkansas

Ark. pastor challenges IRS with pro-McCain sermon

By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press Writer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - In a predominantly black church in a city known for its past racial strife, Bishop Robert Smith is taking sides. At the end of a recent sermon, Smith told about...

Arkansas Children Take Their First Drink Of Alcohol At Age 12: New Study Claims

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An annual survey of drug use among Arkansas youth finds that young people in the state apparently take their first drink at an earlier age than the national average. The federally funded survey of drug...

Ark. gov: Boost in school funds may be difficult

Next Politics & Policy Article LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe on Wednesday indicated that giving schools $112 million for high fuel prices and teacher insurance costs would be difficult given the uncertainty of...

Hearings Delayed For Girls Taken From Alamo Site

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) -- A judge in south Arkansas has delayed hearings on abuse allegations involving two girls taken from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in Fouke. Circuit Court Judge Jim Hudson granted the delay...

Weak retail and factory data stir recession fear (Reuters)

U.S. retail sales last month dropped the most in more than three years while a measure of New York state manufacturing hit its lowest since the index started in 2001, intensifying recession fears and punishing stocks.

Prosecutor: Meth ring busted in NW Ark.

Associated Press - October 15, 2008 1:04 PM ET FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) - Federal prosecutors say 13 people, some from Missouri and Kansas, have been indicted for allegedly taking part in a methamphetamine smuggling ring based out...

Making Environmental Issues a Social Affair

I was reading the March 2007 Edition of Canoe & Kayak magazine, in particular article about people coming to find the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, a once thought extinct species that had been found among the wetland forests of...

Arkansas River Valley Audubon Society Meeting

Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Petit Jean Mountain Sandy Davies Petit Jean Mountain 1 Rockefeller Drive Morrilton, AR 72110 Dr. Douglas A. James, co-author of the book, “Arkansas Birds: Their Distribution and Abundance,” will...

Billy Potter

Billy Potter of College Station, Texas, went to be with his Lord and Savior on October 13, 2008, at the age of 90 years. He was born near Higden, Arkansas, on February 19, 1918. Billy was preceded in death by his parents, Jim...

Doctors Disagree On Mental Retardation

By Robin Mero THE MORNING NEWS Two doctors disagreed with a third in testimony Tuesday regarding whether murder defendant Erickson Dimas-Martinez is mentally retarded. Benton County Circuit Judge David Clinger heard a full day...

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