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Arkansas Drug Director Kirk Lane will start work Aug. 22 as director of the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership that has been formed by the Association of Arkansas Counties and the Arkansas Municipal League, association Executive Director Chris Villines said Friday.

The Biden administration on Thursday announced that two Arkansas airports will receive a total of $18 million for terminal improvements.

The House sent President Joe Biden a bipartisan compromise on Friday intended to toughen the nation's gun laws, the widest ranging gun violence bill Congress has passed in decades.

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on Friday signed a certificate implementing a 2019 law that bans abortions in Arkansas except to save the life of the mother in a medical emergency just hours after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion across the country.

The story goes that, as the country began breaking apart in 1861, the new secretary of state, Bill Seward, approached the new president, named Lincoln, with a unique idea: Instead of watching the nation disintegrate, as the last president did, or watching the states come to blows in a civil war, why not declare war on Britain or France? Maybe a patriotic spirit would sweep across the South, and the states will stop the proceedings to leave the Union.

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked action on a bill aimed at strengthening the federal government's efforts to combat domestic terrorism, rejecting a measure put forward by Democrats after a shooting that police said was motivated by white supremacist ideology killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket.

The Senate advanced a $40 billion package of military, economic and food aid for Ukraine and U.S. allies to final congressional approval Thursday, putting a bipartisan stamp on America's biggest commitment yet to turning Russia's invasion into a quagmire for Moscow.

Family Dollar is closing an Arkansas distribution facility where more than 1,000 rodents were found earlier this year, forcing the recall of items from hundreds of stores, the company said Wednesday.

A team from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette created the Voter Guide to provide residents of the state with the information they need to participate in the primary election.