Arkansas News

Refugees from Louisiana crowded Arkansas hotel rooms as far north as Little Rock as National Weather Service forecasters warned that Monday could bring strong winds to the state as Hurricane Katrina was ...

The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use of republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as AP news dispatches.2.7

All commissioned Arkansas State Police personnel have been placed on "stand-by" status and are subject to adjust their assignments and schedules as necessary to respond to the impact of Hurricane Katrina.2.7

Posted at 11:11 a.m. CDT LITTLE ROCK, AR - Governor Huckabee today said Arkansas is setting up shelters across its southern tier to host Louisiana and Mississippi refugees either fleeing Hurricane Katrina or ...4.8

Momma Dez and her husband have taken in nearly 50 children since they became foster parents in 1998.2.7

The summer travel season in full swing, the Clinton Presidential Library is drawing 2,000 visitors a day, and a new tourism phenomenon is being seen 115 miles away in the town of Hope: Billgrimage.2.7

Rising gas prices are taking a bigger bite out of state budgets across the South but it's a greater financial concern for some states than for others, a survey of seven Southern governors showed.4.2

THOUGH they have claimed the mantle of respectability ever since they jumped online in the late 1990's, ticket scalpers have not been able to shake their reputation as hustlers out to make a quick buck on ...2.9

The Census Bureau tomorrow will release the latest statistics on poverty in the United States, the income level of an average household and the number of Americans still lacking health insurance.4

The front line of farmers' battle against Asian aphids is in Iowa, and three local agriculture pilots traveled north for nearly three weeks to help the cause.3.4

On thing is for certain: Men, women and children in Prairie Grove are dying of cancer.2.7

Dr. Ed Coulter , Arkansas State University Mountain chancellor, shares a light moment Friday with Hugh McClain, Forrest Wood and Jim Gaston while announcing the trio has joined the university's campaign for the ...2.7

"The Uncivil War,' by Robert R. Mackey, calls attention to partisan and guerrilla warfare in the upper South.2.7

Parker Branch: Four teens rescue a creek Teenage girls can be fluttery about music their parents hate, the latest in trendy clothes and the color of their cell phones.2

This week the dart lands in Sherwood. There we found a self-taught artist with a passion for paint.3.1

A federal commission considering sweeping changes at military installations across the nation adjourned for the day Thursday without taking up proposals affecting Arkansas bases.

LITTLE ROCK Former Surgeon General Joycelyn today urged Arkansas women to work to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.4

The AP said LaHood and his wife each accumulated about 13,500 miles this year from a round trip between Chicago and China financed by the Aspen Institute.2.7

Nader, a longtime auto safety advocate, wrote to Dr. Jeffrey Runge, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, asking him to advise the public about "life-threatening hazards" from a cruise ...4.2

Oprah Winfrey said she is "furious" at allegations that her absence at the recent funeral for Ebony and Jet magazines founder John H. Johnson was a snub of the pioneering black publisher.

An Arkansas ice cream maker has taken note of Gov. Mike Huckabee's weight loss and named a special flavor for him.2.7

Republican Rick Calhoun of Little Rock announced plans Thursday to kick off his campaign for lieutenant governor.br/br/Calhoun, 56, will formally enter the lieutenant governor's race at 10 a.m. Monday in Little ...2.7

Members of the Mississippi Delta Grassroots Caucus, a bipartisan Delta advocacy group, announced Thursday that they are expanding their agricultural, rural development and health care initiatives in Arkansas ...4.7

The actual title of this week's commentary should read: "Leaving the Nest and Other Challenging Moments in Our Lives." Unfortunately, that would have taken up too much room on the Firehouse.com homepage.2.7

Washington Regional Medical System's rejection Tuesday of a proposed 16-bed psychiatric unit won't ... Benton and Washington Counties have no acute care beds for psychiatric cases.2.7

Scientists publicly presented recordings of the ivory-billed woodpecker, noting that the tape suggests there might be more than one of the rare bird in an eastern Arkansas swamp.2.9

The Arkansas Polish American Club annual picnic will be 1 p.m. Sept. 19 at Veterans of Foreign Wars Ozark Post 3246 hall, 214 W. Seventh St.2.7

MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use of or republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as AP news dispatches.2.9

A couple of Fridays ago, my wife and son were out playing softball, and I found myself baby-sitting our infant daughter.2.7

KED TREE, Ark. The Army Corps of Engineers has destroyed nearly 30 duck blinds that were deemed to be "permanent" structures, which are banned in the federal St.2.7

An Arkansas partnership of medical and philanthropic organizations has been created to help sick people in financial need get prescription drugs.3.1

Hanoch Tel-Oren was born Charles Ehrenberg in Arkansas, in the small town of Pine Bluff, or Tel-Oren in Hebrew, which supplied the name he later chose for himself when immigrating to Israel.

Doctors should not be required to discuss fetal pain with women seeking abortions because fetuses likely can't feel pain until late in pregnancy, according to a review critics say hardly settles the contentious ...3.1

Six Arkansas school districts were recognized Tuesday for narrowing the achievement gap among student groups.2.7

Robertson called for the assassination on his television show "The 700 Club," Monday night.2.7