LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Friday he has made his choice on a replacement for Martha Shoffner as state treasure and will announce his decision next week. .“We’ll announce it Wednesday,” the governor said. adding that the announcement would have come sooner but the person is out of town.
LITTLE ROCK — The state Department of Human Services expects to submit a request in August for a federal waiver allowing Arkansas to use federal money to buy private insurance for thousands of the state’s working poor, DHS Director John Selig said Thursday.Selig and other state officials gave lawmakers an update on the so-called “private option” for expanding health care coverage during a joint meeting of the House and Senate committees on public health, welfare and labor...
WASHINGTON — The campaign arm of the Senate Democratic Caucus on Thursday criticized U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, as “an extreme ideologue” over an amendment he offered to the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013.At a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on Wednesday, Cotton sought to extend sanctions that would be imposed on Iranian human rights violators to close family members of the “primary malfeasant.”
LITTLE ROCK — The Searcy County sheriff is not eligible to hold office because of a 1979 misdemeanor theft conviction, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.The state’s highest court overturned a Searcy County circuit judge’s ruling that allowed Kenny Webster Cassell to keep his job as sheriff despite the conviction.
LITTLE ROCK — Trustees of Arkansas’ two largest university systems voted unanimously Thursday to opt out of a new law that allows college faculty and staff with permits to carry a concealed handgun on campus.The governing boards of both the University of Arkansas System and the Arkansas State University System approved the gun ban and also approved tuition increases, as did Arkansas Tech University.
LITTLE ROCK — A man was taken into custody early Thursday after he climbed over a fence and broke into a vehicle on the grounds of the Governor’s Mansion, state police said.Ramon Taylor, 32, of Little Rock, was charged with criminal trespass and breaking and entering of a vehicle...
LITTLE ROCK — Lower than anticipated tuition-hike recommendations will force some budget reductions and, in some cases, possibly layoffs, University of Arkansas System chancellors said Wednesday.The UA Board of Trustees on Thursday will consider recommendations from its fiscal committee on requests for tuition and fee increases from UA campuses statewide...
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas said Wednesday it has acquired office space in downtown Little Rock.“This space will give us the much-needed flexibility to carry on official university business in an area where we have a large concentration of alumni and prospective students,” Chancellor G...
LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe said Wednesday he has met with possible replacements for former state Treasurer Martha Shoffner, who resigned Tuesday amid an federal extortion charge, and will make an appointment in the coming days.“We’re going to act quickly, within the next several days, but we’re going to be deliberate in the process to the point that even though we’re acting expeditiously, it’s not going to be hastily,” Beebe told reporters at the state Capitol.
LITTLE ROCK — State Treasurer Martha Shoffner resigned Tuesday, a day after appearing in federal court to face an extortion charge.In a letter to Gov...
LITTLE ROCK — The president of the University of Arkansas System said Tuesday he will recommend to UA trustees this week that all of the system’s 11 campuses opt out of a new law that allows college faculty and staff with permits to carry a concealed handgun on campus.UA System President Donald R...
