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These Abortion-Clinic Defenders Aren’t Going Anywhere
IT WAS JUNE 24, 2022, and Karen Musick was working at Little Rock Family Planning Services, the last abortion clinic in Arkansas. She was guiding patients into the clinic when she heard a protester scream out the news. That’s how she found out the Supreme Court had issued a ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson; the court determined that the Constitution doesn’t protect the right to an abortion.Doctors Plead With Lawmakers Not to Criminalize Life-Saving Pregnancy-Care Pills “We all knew it was coming,” Musick says now, two years later. She’s sitting in the clinic’s old office, surrounded by boxes piled high....
Former Arkansas House Speaker Benny Petrus has died
Benny Petrus had been a powerful member of the Arkansas House of Representatives. A Democrat, he was elected from the 14th District. Petrus passed away on May 17, 2024. A cause of death was not immediately released to the public. But he was at a Little Rock hospital at the time of his passing.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin responds to judge’s ruling on lawsuit against ATF rule change
A U.S. district judge in Little Rock dismissed a lawsuit Attorney General Tim Griffin filed against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives over a federal gun sales rule change.
Crews work to repair Benton Washington Regional Public Water Authority generator impacted by power outage
PEA RIDGE, Ark. — Editor's Note: An order for immediate water conservation was canceled by the Two Ton Water Authority on the afternoon of May 27. According to the City of Pea Ridge, the Benton Washington Regional Water Authority (BWRWA) is working to fix problems with their water production.
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