Arkansas Times
Today in Arkansas: Presidential countdown, tax cuts and tuxedoed bulldog
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- Today in Arkansas: Presidential countdown, tax cuts and tuxedoed bulldog
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- 5:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Wednesday, Oct. 26 includes a presidential election countdown; state silence on foster child abuse; a senator's tax cut plan; a taxpayer-financed dog tuxedo; justice for a firefighter, and Arby's move to deer meat.
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- Today in Arkansas: Feds indict ex-Cross County judge
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- 5:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A federal grand jury has indicted former Cross County District Judge Joseph Boeckmann for trading leniency for illicit favors from young male defendants. Also: No new Trump gropes, but polls favor Clinton eveywhere but Arkansas. Leslie Rutledge gets early start on re-election. John McCain seems to vow Supreme Court obstruction. Obamacare numbers. The state's poor showing in LGBT equality index. The bridge that refuses to die.
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- Today in Arkansas: Another day, another grope
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- 5:00
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News from Arkansas on Friday, Oct. 14: Ho-hum. More women say Donald Trump groped them. Also: Legislative Audit calls down the governor; Michelle Obama sparkles in equal rights speech; kids' gun death toll is higher than thought; Tom Cotton, an elitist, runs against elitists in Iowa; UCA narrows presidential search; David Pryor progresses; State Fair opens; Broadway Bridge demolition delayed.
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- Today in Arkansas: Supreme Court kills 2, keeps 1 amendment
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- 4:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Thursday, Oct. 13 includes momentous decisions by Arkansas Supreme Court: Casino and tort reform amendments struck from ballot; medical marijuana survives. Gov. Hutchinson continues to defend Donald Trump and does the Hillary Pivot. Broadway Bridge mess cleared. State Fair food reviewed. And, in Nobel news, The Times They Are a Changin.
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- Today In Arkansas: Tax cuts or kids
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- 5:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- New in Arkansas on Wednesday, Oct. 12 includes the legislative debate pitting tax cuts versus school spending. Also: The foster care crisis; Capitol monuments; a senatorial debate; wrist slap for law-breaking clerk; medical marijuana; Trump's offense to all humans, not just women; corporate welfare; the Broadway Bridge.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump tape, debate roil presidential race
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- 5:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- What a difference a weekend -- and a lurid tape and TV debate -- make in the presidential race. Also from Arkansas on Monday, Oct. 10: Legislature weighs kids vs. tax cuts; Supreme Court stiffs Bar Association; turkeys die for sport in Yellville; more booze in Fort Smith; a big demolition set.
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- Today in Arkansas: How to choose judges
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- 4:47
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Friday, Oct. 7, includes the draft of a proposal to appoint rather than elect Supreme Court justices. Also, Tom Cotton is running for president; UALR Law gets $1 million; Obama commutes drug offenders, including an Arkansan; Arkansas a leader, sigh, in corporal punishment, and a couple of examples of why Arkansas can't have nice things -- desecration of a swimming hole and the Yellville turkey drop.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump's idea of entertainment
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- 5:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Trump says his sexist remarks were just for entertainment. Oh. Other headlines from Thursday, Oct. 6: Asa resists a 'bathroom bill.' Prosecutor possible as UCA chief. Bauxite bothered by Anthem protest. A gruesome death in Texarkana jail. Clown terror in Bentonville. Turkey defenders arise.
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- Today in Arkansas: Veep rumble
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- 6:39
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Republican wins on style and Democrat on facts in vice presidential debate. Other headlines on Wednesday, Oct. 5: Police shooting in Springdale; complaint about hot check court; UAMS researcher scores $10 million; medical marijuana debate set; conflicts cited for Supreme Court on nursing home case; Yellville to torture turkeys again.
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- Today in Arkansas: More reefer madness
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- 5:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Now it's landlords who claim medical marijuana is a bad thing. Other news in Arkansas on Monday, Oct. 3: California govt. won't do business with states like Arkansas that discriminate against LGBT; some new jobs in LR; a copy injured in Jefferson County; officer kills motorist during stolen car chase; Trump the tax moocher; Rapert calls for revolution on football prayer; a Gazette reunion and the IHOP comes down.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump's defender, Leslie Rutledge
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- 7:07
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Attorney General Leslie Rutledge again defends the indefensible Donald Trump on national TV. Other Arkansas news on Friday, Sept. 30: John Walker and police race relations; Planned Parenthood wins again; protecting Buffalo River; UCA's one-sided pot forum; nursing homes use patients to limit lawsuits; justice in Alabama; football and a reunion.
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- Today in Arkansas: Cop filming charges dropped
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- 5:23
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Thursday, Sept. 29 inlcudes, on a glorious fall day, another run at preserving Medicaid money for mental health treatment. Also: Prosecutor drops charges against lawyers arrested by cops after filming an arrest; nursing homes rocked by federal rule change; another homicide; meth turns up in former senator's DWI blood test; now Tom Cotton is an expert on Sweden.
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- John Walker arrest
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- 13:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- This video shows some of the interactions between Little Rock Police officers and Rep. John Walker and his associate, lawyer Omavi Shukur, before they were arrested for obstructing governmental operations. Police later dropped the charge against Walker and apologized to him. The charge against Shukur has not been dropped.
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- Today in Arkansas: Presidential debate and lots of crime news
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- 5:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Cooler temps arrive just in time for presidential debate hot air on Monday, Sept. 26. Other news today: Civil rights lawyer John Walker arrested while filming police make an arrest; Tom Cotton single-handedly blocks bipartisan juvenile justice bill; violent crime is up and the U.S. attorney general talked about it in Little Rock today, along with announcing a grant for police body cameras; a deputy shot an armed man in western Pulaski County; Jason Rapert takes a stand for HIS Bible; the city gets ready for Broadway Bridgeageddon.
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- Today in Arkansas: Medical marijuana madness
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- 5:54
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Legal and political battles over medical marijuana lead our report on Arkansas news for Friday, Sept. 23. Also: Broader connections in a murder-suicide in Wynne; rape counts mount against Conway doctor; Leslie Rutledge may finally get one right; new jobs in Harrison; Charlotte protests hold a lesson for Little Rock freeway builders; UA students display history deficit in Rebel flag vote.
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- Today in Arkansas: State pay raises
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- 5:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A tiny pay raise for state employees is in the news Thursday, Sept. 22. Also: Medical marijuana; Waltons' fight for charter schools and vouchers; Trump's incredibly racist campaigner; the Pryors get into city politics; a Bledsoe pay raise delayed; a gripe about doper riding in Big Dam Bridge 100.
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- Today in Arkansas: Mental health money on chopping block
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- 7:01
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Wednesday, Sept. 21, includes the legislature's willingness to slash spending on mental health care, already inadequate. Other news: More state money for the Bledsoe clan; medical marijuana; Beebe enters casino fray; Bentonville voters back bigotry; Fort Smith voters end civil war; Rebel flag an issue in Fayetteville biker rally.
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- Today in Arkansas: Terror and Jason Rapert
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- 6:04
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Terror incidents provoke another eruption from Sen. Jason Rapert. Other Arkansas news on Monday, Sept. 19: UAMS chancellor to retire; plant expansion in Batesville; a big gift to UCA; Leslie Rutledge's failure on clean air and women's medical rights; a big goal at UA; Tom Cotton hobnobs in Manhattan; bigotry in Bentonville school race.
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- Today in Arkansas: Thank God for Mississippi
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- 6:03
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas's drop in median incomes to 49th leads the Friday, Sept. 16 report. Also: Opioid abuse and medical marijuana; an overreaching legislature; UA official gala secrets; the nursing home bailout amendment; Leslie Rutledge's fight to discriminate against LGBT; Family Council and Tom Cotton bash Internet gambling, which happens to be legal for some Arkansas companies; and elementary politics takes to the skies.
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- Today in Arkansas: LR to review take-home cop cars
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- 5:11
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- With Little Rock paying for commuting out of town by 141 police officers, it's decided to review if the policy needs any changes. Other news on Thursday, Sept. 15: A funny smell at Governor's Mansion; a reduced life sentence for juvenile; one police death and a police shooting; marijuana debate; Republicans in ethics hot water; Atlanta moves away from freeways; a scary new documentary on Titan missile explosion.
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- Today in Arkansas: LR cops get free commutes
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- 4:10
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Wednesday Sept. 14 includes our reporting on the huge number of cops who get free commuting privileges to cities other than Little Rock. Also: Colin Powell on Trump; a charter school groundbreaking; Democrats and pre-K; the benefit of Obamacare; unreasonable Tom Cotton; National Merit winners.
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- Today in Arkansas: Governor goes after pot
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- 6:57
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Monday, Sept. 12 includes Gov. Asa Hutchinson's assault on medical marijuana and casino-backed opposition to an amendment for more casinos. Also: Hillary Clinton's bad weekend; a big party at UA: LGBT discrimination in Catholic schools; Miss Arkansas wins Miss America crown.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump v. Clinton
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- 4:57
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News in Arkansas on Thursday, Sept. 8 includes fallout from the Trump-Clinton faceoff on military issues. Also: UA Board approves stadium project; hog farm study to proceed; bishop reports priest sex abuse; Hot Springs moves against panhandlers; Democrats complain about Mark Martin; a battle royal on Capitol monuments; a political future for Baker Kurrus
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- Today in Arkansas: LR cops can still avoid city
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- 5:36
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News on Wednesday, Sept. 7, includes the Little Rock City Board's rejection of a residency requirement for city cops. Also: Suits against ballot measures pile up and some twists emerge on the nursing home lawsuit and casino measures. The governor creates a computer coding competition. A transgender vet joins presidential debate. Reporting ties polluters to attorney general. Football: Tickets and the emotional cost of losing in Louisiana.
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- Today in Arkansas: It's football (stadium) season
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- 4:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News on Friday, Sept. 2 includes a coming UA Board vote on $120 million in bonds for Razorback Stadium, where football season begins Saturday. Also: Arkansas hires a Medicaid expert with an interesting history; state revenue is down; rural areas feed the prison population; good news about marijuana; Leslie Rutledge keeps fighting for dirtier air; the county garden plots are safe.
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- Today in Arkansas: Casinos make the ballot
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- 5:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Thursday, Sept. 1 includes certification of a casino amendment for a November vote. Also, a new challenge to an amendment to limit medical lawsuit damages; a second medical marijuana amendment; the attorney general's continued busy legal work outside Arkansas; arrest of a State Police commander; Walmart job cuts; an officer-involved shooting.
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- Today in Arkansas: Bring on the concrete
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- 4:45
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Wednesday, Aug. 31: The I-30 Concrete Gulch project got a key vote of approval today. A new report finds kids in debtors' prisons. Legislature spits on separation of powers, subpoenas judge. Should divorce cases be made secret? Miss Arkansas pageant moves to Little Rock. An Arky transplant comes up political loser in Florida.
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- Today in Arkansas: Lawyers challenge nursing home amendment
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- 5:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Arkansas Bar Association is suing over the amendment to limit damages and attorney gees in nursing home and other medical lawsuits. Fears of election hackers reinforce fears of Secretary of State Mark Martin. Politics of the I-30 Concrete Gulch. Gilbert Baker's DWI. LGBT Shame List includes Arkansas colleges. The hometown newspaper really endorsed closure of the Clinton Foundation. States righter Leslie Rutledge finds a federal supremacy argument she likes, to the detriment of open records. NOTE CORRECTION: The Clinton Foundation president is Stephanie Streett, not Susan.
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- Today in Arkansas: Blocking the vote
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- 6:09
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Friday, Aug. 26, includes the many ways Secretary of State Mark Martin and other Republicans are taking partisan control of voting. Also: The Boys on the Tracks are back; Arkansas's poor record on helping the poor go to college; Aliice Walton's money shipped to New York political race; Broadway Bridge closure set; Lou Holtz steps in it again.
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- Today in Arkansas: In hot check court
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- 4:16
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A visit to hot check court -- a debtor's prison scheme according to an ACLU lawsuit -- leads the news in Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 25. Other topics: Reducing the number of people in prison; Gov. Hutchinson on pot, casinos and tort reform; another fraud plea in poor kids' feeding program; a convicted Republican won't quit legislative race; local gal makes good in Tennessee, U. Texas students pick up dildos to protest guns on campus.
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- Today in Arkansas: Obamacare's benefit in Arkansas
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- 5:01
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Wed., Aug. 24 includes a surge in enrollment in the Obamacare Medicaid expansion in Arkansas. Other news: The shrinking Clinton Foundation; opponents of medical marijuana; a dirt bike park for Little Rock spurs questions; new at the Zoo; the Hogs trip to Spain; Main Street restaurant news.
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- Today in Arkansas: Clinton Foundation's cloudy future
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- 6:08
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News in Arkansas Monday, Aug. 22, includes additional reporting on the likely reduction of the Clinton Foundation should Hillary Clinton be elected president. Also: A screwup in handling of state employee drug coverage; Texas judge rules against Obama bathroom guidance; Pulaski preparing for school election; a pre-K debate in Jonesboro; GOP kills UA polling place; a final word on Naramore case.
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- Today in Arkansas: Naramore takes the stand
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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Friday, Aug. 19 includes the defense-closing testimony of Judge Wade Naramore in his trial for negligent homicide in the hot car death of his son. Also: Another medical marijuana measure may make ballot; Conner Eldridge criticizes Obama; changes at Clinton Foundation; a surprise in LR city board elections; Mark Martin still resists obeying law; a karmic farewell to Ken Starr.
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- Today in Arkansas: Choosing school segregation
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- 4:45
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Thursday, Aug. 18 includes court news affecting schools in Garland County and El Dorado -- does choice equal segregation? Other topics: The Naramore child homicide case; the failure of drug testing welfare recipients; Leslie Rutledge's national agenda; troubles at Parkview High; City Board races; Lou Grant; getting out the vote at UA.
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- Today in Arkansas: A child's last hours
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- 5:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Testimony about the hours leading to the death of 18-month-old Thomas Naramore was part of the third day of the trial of his father, Judge Wade Naramore, on a negligent homicide charge in the hot car death. Also in the news Wednesday, Aug. 17: Women in jail; telemedicine; college cost help; uncertain future for LR principal; Heights rezoning; record rain; Trump appointed Leslie Rutledge for WHAT?
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- Today In Arkansas: Judge on trial
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- 4:48
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- High emotions marked the opening of testimony in the trial of Circuit Judge Wade Naramore in the hot car death of his young son. Other news headlines on Tuesday, Aug. 16: Juvenile lockups; nursing home spending to block lawsuits; a new leader at The Rep; spirited academic politics at ASU; stolen guns; a pole vaulting loss for an Arkansas favorite; Petty politics in NW Ark.
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- Today in Arkansas: Deaths in Hot Springs
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- 5:36
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Monday, Aug. 15 include opening of the trial of a Hot Springs judge in his son's hot car death and the discovery of the suicide near Hot Springs of a lawyer recently released from federal prison after a sentence for a multi-million-dollar theft. Also: More support for a casino amendment; school opens with an NAACP call for a charter school moratorium; Satanists ask for Capitol monument; money flows to anti-environmental causes; a push for UA voting center.
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- Today in Arkansas: A lost court case and some happy finds
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas headlines on Friday, Aug. 12, include a mistrial in the lawsuit by a man fired by the state treasurer. Also: A cave rescue; a found police dog; a no-comment from the attorney general on a new payday lender; HIllary's tax return; the library's new podcast; a victory for Planned Parenthood; Trump derangement syndrome.
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- Today in Arkansas: Mark Martin obeys law!
- Runtime
- 6:17
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News in Arkansas on Thursday, Aug. 11 includes Secretary of State Mark Martin's buck-passing on voter roll screwup. Also: ASU students lost in cave; chest pains interrupt defamation trial; nursing home money pours into battle to limit lawsuits; state Board of Education persists in dismantling desegregation tools; Arkansas Republicans' lame response to Donald Trump; a VIP opens Hillary campaign office in Little Rock; business news at the port and downtown; another Huckup.
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- Today in Arkansas: Lawmen shot in Sebastian County
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- 4:24
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas headlines on Wednesday, Aug. 10 including the shooting of two law officers in Sebastian County. One of them, Deputy Bill Cooper, died after this news report was recorded. Other news: Donald Trump's gun talk continues to reverberate; the lottery reports growing revenue; a lawmaker is pushing paid maternity leave for state employees; Arkansas voters proved receptive to tax increases this week; a couple of Arkies come up with an Internit hit quiz -- Trump or Jesus?
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- Today In Arkansas: GOP cool to kids
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- 4:54
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Tuesday, Aug. 9, includes the state Republican Party's repudiation of support for pre-K education. Also: Special interests block juvenile justice reform; state told to obey federal court on school transfers; Conner Eldridge presses no-show Sen. John Boozman; another putdown of corporate welfare; prison chaplain heads to prison for sex abuse; secretary of state ducks accountability on voter screwup; what Ireland has in common with Little Rock (not weather).
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- Today in Arkansas: Arkansas in focus
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- 4:40
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News Headlines for July 27, 2016
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- Today in Arkansas: Bureaucratic screw up could disenfranchise voters
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- 3:50
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- News Headlines for July 25, 2016
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- Today in Arkansas: SC refuses to rehear death penalty case
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Also, a jury convicts Ted Suhl in federal court, Welspun lays off 100 workers and more.
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- Today in Arkansas: More from GOP reality show
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- 4:31
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansans take the stage at Republican National Convention and, surprise, throw down on Hillary. Other news on Wednesday, July 20: Balancing tax cuts and child welfare at the Capitol; Ted Suhl bribery case goes to jury; ethics complaint against governor gets traction; traffic mess coming on Fair Park Boulevard; a money-making corpse in Paragould; Alice Stewart takes her unlucky political track record to CNN.
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- Today In Arkansas: GOP Reality TV
- Runtime
- 5:31
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Tuesday, July 19 includes Sen. Tom Cotton's lacklustre speech to the Republican National Convention and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's defense of Melania Trump's plagiarism. Also: A top Hutchinson aide moves to Youth Services; Ted Suhl takes the stand in his bribery trial; Ernie Dumas explains the Arkansas Supreme Court's constitutional blunder; Matt Campbell goes after nursing home lobby; Democrats fight Republican trickery in Washington County, and Fox News' Roger Ailes may be history.
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- Today in Arkansas: GOP gathers in Cleveland
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- 4:54
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Monday, July 18, includes highlights and lowlights of Arkies at the Republican National Convention. Also: Cherokees bet a million on state casino; Johnny Key packs LR school board; searching for Black LIves Matter T-shirts; LR cop residency an issue again; local charter school angle in Turkish coup; prison rape victim decries light sentence; farewell to Dallas Bump.
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- Today in Arkansas: Lights out
- Runtime
- 4:47
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Friday, July 15 leads with a big wind storm that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and is slow being restored. Also: More to come on state defiance of federal courts on school transfers; nursing home pour money on anti-lawsuit amendment; city puts brakes on western edge development; school nurse law meaningless without money; Tom Cotton a sore thumb again; and question of the day: Proud or Embarrassed by Arkansan's leading roles at Trump convention.
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- Today in Arkansas: State Education Board echoes 1957
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Arkansas Board of Education today echoed 1957 and voted to ignore federal courtdesegregation orders in allowing public school district transfers. Other Arkansas news on Thursday, July 14: Suhl bribery trial continues; big gifts to University of Arkansas Journalism Department and to economics education; another court win for Planned Parenthood; police search for Sonic robbers; Trump picks a vice president and Arkies gear up for speeches and transgender bathrooms in Cleveland.
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- Today in Arkansas: Ready for executions
- Runtime
- 4:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Arkansas news on Wednesday, July 13 includes the state's readiness -- even eagerness -- to resume executions. Also: Ted Suhl bribery trial begins; group forms to fight legal protection for nursing home abuse; study aims at root of Arkansas obesity; Gosnell teacher irked by Black Lives Matter; medical marijuana group rips Health Department for opposition.
