Mike Beebe

by Frank James Hours ago, Bill Gwatney, chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, was shot several times by a man who pushed his way past staffers into Gwatney's Little Rock office. Now comes word via a joint statement......

FORT SMITH, Ark. -- Officials say a fall 2016 opening is planned for the $50 million U.S. Marshals Museum in Fort Smith.   The museum's board of directors said Tuesday that groundbreaking for the museum will be held Sept. 24, 2014. The Southwest Times...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Authorities are questioning a man accused of climbing over the fence around the Arkansas Governor's Mansion and entering the grounds.   Arkansas State Police say the man scaled the fence at about 5:30 a.m. Thursday and was quickly...

An Arkansas law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy was temporarily blocked by a federal judge on Friday. In a ruling from the bench, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright in Little Rock granted a preliminary injunction...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - The Republican-led Arkansas Senate, in the latest statehouse swipe at abortion providers around the country, approved a bill on Tuesday that sponsors said was aimed at cutting off the last vestiges of state funding to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as "Obamacare." It could mean exposing...

Rival legal teams, well-financed and highly motivated, are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation's toughest bans on abortion. For all their differences, attorneys for...

The approval by Arkansas' Legislature on Wednesday of the nation's most restrictive abortion law raises a lot of questions. No, I don't mean the usual questions about when life begins or whether the government has a right to intrude in such an intensely...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas soon will have the nation's most restrictive abortion law — a near-ban on the procedure from the 12th week of pregnancy — unless a lawsuit or court action intervenes. Lawmakers in the Republican-...

Arkansas legislators approved the nation's most restrictive abortion law on Wednesday after overriding a veto by the state's Democratic governor, who said the legislation was "blatantly unconstitutional." Senate Bill 134, known as the Arkansas Human...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A violent storm formed over the prairie west of Oklahoma City late Friday afternoon, dropped a tornado in a suburb and rolled into the state capital as viewers brave enough to remain above ground watched on statewide television....

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Gov. Mike Beebe has issued a statewide disaster declaration after a Christmas Day winter storm dumped snow and ice throughout the state and knocked out power to more than 200,000 customers. The governor issued the...