Arkansas Politics News

Senate Republicans forced Democrats to vote in favor of cutting billions from providers of home care for older people as partisan debate flared Saturday during a rare weekend session on President Obama’s health care overhaul. Obama planned to travel to...

A judge in southern Illinois says the hiding of a boy for nearly two years in a crawl space in his grandmother's home during a custody fight amounts to neglect. Franklin County Circuit Judge Melissa Drew ruled Friday after a...

I read a stack this thick," Huckabee said, holding his hands several inches apart. "I looked at the file...Now, if you think a 108-year sentence is an appropriate sentence for a 16-year-old for the crimes he committed, then you should...

At age 17, sentenced to 35 years for aggravated robbery and theft in Little Rock after he stole a purse from a woman, claiming he had a gun and punching her. January 1990: Sentenced to 60 years for burglary and...

Making another push for its health care reform bill as the U.S. Senate prepares for a floor debate, the Obama administration said today that 2 million uninsured residents of Ohio and Kentucky could get more affordable coverage if Democratic plans...

A police officer assigned to a South Carolina high school shot and killed an 11th-grader during a dispute Friday morning, officials said. The school resource officer was stabbed during the confrontation at Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach, S.C.,...

A report by Republicans in Congress about the Obama administration’s firing of a government agency’s internal watchdog suggests that the school chancellor in Washington intervened on behalf of her current fiancé, who was under investigation by the watchdog. The chancellor,...