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What plaintiffs targeting abortion pill want might not even be possible

BY: - March 21, 2023

At the center of the federal anti-abortion lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is the abortion drug mifepristone and the regimen that reportedly accounts for the majority of abortions in post-Roe America. That’s why the whole country is bracing itself for a ruling from a notoriously anti-abortion judge in Amarillo, Texas.  The attention […]

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin greets Big Country Chateau tenants (L-R) Clara Edmonston, Delores McDaniel and Jay Richard at a Jan. 26, 2023, tenants' rally in front of Little Rock City Hall. (Photo by Sonny Albarado)

Apartment tenants plead for help over unsafe conditions, pending utility cutoffs

BY: - January 26, 2023

Little Rock officials and state Attorney General Tim Griffin’s office are working to extend utility and water cutoff deadlines at Big Country Chateau, an apartment complex that faced similar service cutoffs last year. Tenants received notice recently that Entergy Arkansas will cut off power to the 151-unit complex on Feb. 6 and Central Arkansas Water […]

Students from Louisana prepare to join the 50th annual March for Life rally on Jan. 20, 2023, in Washington, DC. Anti-abortion activists attended the annual march, the first to occur in a “post-Roe nation” since the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health ruling that overturned 50 years of federal protections for abortion health care. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Abortion debate ramps up in states as Congress deadlocks

BY: - January 23, 2023

Anti-abortion advocates are pressing for expanded abortion bans and tighter restrictions since the Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion. But with the debate mostly deadlocked in Washington, the focus is shifting to states convening their first full legislative sessions since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Although some state GOP lawmakers have filed bills […]

Arkansas State Police investigate death of prisoner at East Arkansas unit

BY: - December 9, 2022

Caleb Cogburn, 24, was found dead in his cell at the Varner Unit in Gould on Thursday, according to a press release from the Arkansas Department of Corrections. The prisoner was pronounced dead at 6:40 a.m., according to the department. No other details about the circumstances of Cogburn’s death were released. Arkansas State Police was […]