Mike Beebe

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Gov. Mike Beebe has issued a statewide disaster declaration after a Christmas Day winter storm dumped snow and ice throughout the state and knocked out power to more than 200,000 customers. The governor issued the...

WASHINGTON -- A bipartisan group of governors came to Washington on Tuesday to express concern to the White House and members of Congress about the potential consequences to state budgets in the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. The governors are worried...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Arkansas officials say the state is moving forward with implementing parts of the federal health care law after an election that provided clarity on the federal level - but uncertainty in the state Legislature about the political...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Republican legislator in Arkansas under fire for writing that slavery may have been a "blessing in disguise" for African-Americans blasted the state's top Democrats in a letter published Thursday, comparing them to Nazis...

This year's drought, along with recent news reports of the lowest corn yield in 17 years, has rekindled the food vs. fuel debate — and, for good reasons. When Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007, an ambitious schedule...

LITTLE ROCK, Ak. -- Arkansas students who love their sagging pants should soon leave them at home. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe signed a bill on Wednesday that bans students from wearing clothing that exposes "underwear, buttocks or the breast of a...

Traveling outside the U.S. for the last two weeks, I had the chance to flip last year news trying to find a different perspective for the forces playing in our world today. Year end is always a time for review of what happened, to understand what is going...

WASHINGTON - Their states on the brink of financial catastrophe, governors pleaded Saturday for the divided federal government to avoid doing anything that would hamper the tenuous economic recovery back home. Their message to Washington: prevent a...

by Frank James Hours ago, Bill Gwatney, chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, was shot several times by a man who pushed his way past staffers into Gwatney's Little Rock office. Now comes word via a joint statement......