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Arkansas Governor: 15 firefighters to go back to work
posted: 02/08/2012 3:54 p.m. Comment 1
Gov. Mike Beebe says 15 firefighters with the Arkansas Forestry Commission will be put back to work this month after a shift of money within the state’s budget.
Boehner: Congress to overturn birth control policy
posted: 02/08/2012 1:02 p.m. Comments 16
House Speaker John Boehner accused the Obama administration Wednesday of an “unambiguous attack on religious freedom,” promising that Congress will reverse a new policy requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with free birth control if the president doesn’t.
Santorum seizes Minnesota lead, wins Missouri
posted: 02/07/2012 9:33 p.m. Discuss
Rick Santorum seized a solid lead Tuesday night in Minnesota's Republican caucuses, bidding to extinguish front-runner Mitt Romney's modest campaign winning streak and launch a comeback of his own in the race for the party's presidential nomination.
Romney, Santorum square off
posted: 02/07/2012 5:22 a.m. Discuss
Mitt Romney is dispatching top surrogates to attack rival Rick Santorum over Santorum’s past support for spending on pork-barrel projects.
Congress approves unmanned drone flights in US
posted: 02/06/2012 5:38 p.m. Discuss
A bill to speed the nation’s switch from radar to an air traffic control system based on GPS technology, and to open U.S. skies to unmanned drone flights within four years, received final congressional approval Monday.
'No budget, no paycheck,' 2 Arkansas reps say
updated: 02/06/2012 6:06 p.m. Comments 9
U.S. Rep. Mike Ross (D) and Rep. Tim Griffin (R) want to tie congressional pay to the annual passage of the budget in a new resolution.
Gingrich dismisses notion he’ll give up
posted: 02/06/2012 5:13 a.m. Discuss
With back-to-back victories fueling him, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney is looking toward the next states that hold GOP nominating contests as main rival Newt Gingrich brushes aside any talk of abandoning his White House bid.
TV news shows
posted: 02/05/2012 4:26 a.m. Discuss
Lineup of guests for today’s TV news shows: ABC’s This Week — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. 9 a.m., KATV, Channel 7, Little Rock. NBC’s Meet the Press — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Govs. Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., and Deval Patrick, D-Mass.; Rep. Xavier Becerra, DCalif. 9 a.m., KARK-TV, Channel 4, Little Rock. CBS’ Face the Nation — Gingrich; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. 9:30 a.m., KTHV-TV, Channel 11, Little Rock.
Romney, Gingrich talk jobs as Nevada caucuses loom
posted: 02/03/2012 5:06 p.m. Comment 1
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are pounding President Barack Obama for failing to do enough to create jobs as they campaign in Nevada a day before the state weighs in on the GOP presidential race.
Roseanne Barr seeks Green Party nod
posted: 02/03/2012 10:27 a.m. Comment 1
Roseanne Barr said Thursday she's running for the Green Party's presidential nomination — and it's no joke.
Trump gives backing to Romney
posted: 02/03/2012 4:39 a.m. Discuss
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney on Thursday won the backing of real-estate developer and reality television star Donald Trump, a day after the candidate came under attack for his comments about America’s poor.
Payroll tax extension talks yield slow progress
posted: 02/02/2012 1:24 p.m. Discuss
House and Senate negotiators are making halting progress on extending a two percentage point cut in payroll taxes.
Trump intends to endorse Romney, AP sources say
posted: 02/02/2012 12:27 p.m. Comment 1
In a surprise twist, Donald Trump planned to endorse Mitt Romney — not Newt Gingrich — for the Republican presidential nomination Thursday, three Republican officials told The Associated Press. Gingrich’s camp had been so confident of winning the endorsement that it had leaked that Trump would support the former House speaker.
Boehner: Feds should back off birth control order
posted: 02/02/2012 10:54 a.m. Comments 10
House Speaker John Boehner says the Obama administration should reconsider a decision to make church-affiliated employers cover birth control on their health care plans.
Romney says primary fight strengthens him for fall
posted: 02/01/2012 11:19 a.m. Discuss
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the bare-knuckled nomination fight thus far has toughened him up for contests to come.
