LITTLE ROCK A group of Republican legislators Tuesday proposed raising fines for a number of violent crimes and traffic violations to pay for a statewide trauma system, promoting the measure as an alternative to Gov. Mike Beebe's call for increased tobacco taxes.

LITTLE ROCK The Senate on Tuesday approved placing a cap on the amount of money colleges and universities can spend on scholarships, while the House voted to increase state fees on wholesale milk.

LITTLE ROCK After months of negotiations, Arkansas lawmakers plan to give their final seal of approval this week to the state's new lottery and scholarship program.

LITTLE ROCK -- Doctors would have to tell a woman of the risks of having an abortion vs. carrying the baby to term under legislation that also requires the woman to wait 24 hours before undergoing the procedure.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- A legislative committee chairman says the state is not doing enough to move the most difficult welfare cases off the rolls and into jobs.

LITTLE ROCK -- Local hospitals and health care programs would get a healthy chunk of proceeds from Arkansas' $1.6 billion tobacco settlement at the expense of medical research under a House spending plan.

An Arkansas legislator has a measure that would limit who can prescribe the "abortion pill" -- strikingly similar to legislation his father introduced in Washington D.C.

... Steele, director of the Martin Luther King Commission, also is a state representative and chairs the House Public Health Welfare and Labor Committee. Steele, D-North Little Rock, wants lawmakers to review the recent switch to a new computer ...

... a discount of up to 25 percent for their prescription drugs. However, the proposal died in the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee. "When I got to committee, I got the message that the governor was neutral after making his ...

... cleared a House committee Thursday. The bill already passed the Senate and with approval by the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, it goes to the full House. The sponsors, Sen. Bobby Glover, D-Carlisle, and Rep. Cecile ...