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When federal lawmakers return to the nation’s capital after their August recess, they won’t have much time to reach a deal on government spending. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Brenda Robinson may have come up short in the Mega Millions drawing earlier this week but Wednesday, after the lottery climbed to an estimated $1.25 billion, she was feeling lucky. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas’ general revenue in July increased by $27.4 million, or 4.5%, over the same month a year ago, beating the state’s forecast by $21.9 million, or 3.5%. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A group of hemp product marketers in Arkansas, Colorado and Texas filed suit in federal court in Arkansas Monday challenging Act 629 of 2023, which outlawed the sale of products containing THC derived from hemp plants containing less than 0.3% tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) . Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press…

The group behind an effort to put Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ education overhaul to a referendum is now claiming it has enough signatures to get the LEARNS Act on the ballot. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock officials will hold seven public meetings later this month on a proposed sales-tax increase ahead of an early-September deadline to call a fall referendum. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

The group behind the effort to put Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ education overhaul to a referendum came up 747 signatures short Monday, according to the group’s own estimate. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. highlighted his “three-pronged” approach to crime Monday night alongside three other mayors featured on Chris Cuomo’s “Crime in America” town hall. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Mississippi man arrested nearly five years ago in Lonoke County with 10 kilograms of cocaine in the back seat of his rental car will get his day in court beginning this morning at the Richard Sheppard Arnold U.S. Courthouse in Little Rock in a trial expected to last three days. Continue Reading at NWAonline…

The three school-aged children of Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and First Gentleman Bryan Sanders are not eligible for the state’s Educational Freedom Accounts despite living in a neighborhood that is served by two F-graded schools. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

With the help of rising interest rates and a larger investment portfolio, the Arkansas treasury’s interest earnings skyrocketed to $254.5 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30 — far exceeding the $69.9 million earned in the previous fiscal year — state officials said. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas…

Arkansas hospitals would receive more than $93 million in lump sum payments from the federal government under a proposal by a federal agency to compensate them for a cut in what Medicare paid them for prescription drugs from 2018 to 2022. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution…

More than 80 of Arkansas’ private and parochial schools have applied to date to participate in the state’s new Educational Freedom Account Program, enabling eligible students to use taxpayer money to meet at least part of their tuition and other school costs in the 2023-24 school year. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags:…

A federal judge in Fayetteville on Saturday temporarily blocked enforcement of two provisions of Act 372, a new state law on library materials, days before the law was scheduled to take effect on Tuesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Laws that allow lawsuits against doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors, impose age-verification requirements for websites displaying pornography, and revise child labor statutes will go into effect Tuesday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Arkansas State University took another step toward bringing the first public veterinary school to the state Friday, as the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the university’s plan to establish the College of Veterinary Medicine and to offer a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News…

The Arkansas Supreme Court’s ruling in a lawsuit over the LEARNS Act will have ramifications far beyond the education overhaul law, Attorney General Tim Griffin reiterated Friday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A fired city of Little Rock worker is due more than $323,000 from the city for his wrongful termination after a Pulaski County jury found that the dismissal violated Roderick Keith King Hickman’s civil rights. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Summit Utilities Inc. can again shut off customers for failure to pay bills and impose late-fee penalties, starting in September, after state regulators on Thursday lifted the ban imposed on the natural gas provider. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

Both of Arkansas’ U.S. senators supported the defense bill that cleared the U.S. Senate on Thursday. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service

A Cross County woman whose home was destroyed by an EF3 tornado packing winds of 150 mph that swept through Wynne on March 31 has settled a lawsuit with her insurer for more than $1 million after she accused the company of offering her more than $200,000 less than her home was insured for following…

Anna Kovalchuk awoke at 5 a.m. on Feb. 24, 2022, to the sound of explosions, her parents speaking atypically loudly, and the television blaring “emergency” warnings. Continue Reading at NWAonline here Top Featured Tags: – Arkansas News Press Release Distribution Service