http://www.mail.com/locations/2792-arkansas.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/2792-arkansas.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2160718-ark-ag-seeks-to-uphold-verdict-jj.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' attorney general filed a brief Tuesday backed by his counterparts in 35 other states asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to uphold a $1.2 billion fine levied against Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over the marketing of the antipsychotics drug Risperdal. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel called on the justices to reject ... Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:20:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2160718-ark-ag-seeks-to-uphold-verdict-jj.html 2013-06-19T00:20:40Z http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/2144724-ncaa-apr-hits-schools-with-lesser-resources.html Eighteen Division I teams will miss the postseason, and another 18 in men's basketball and nine other college sports will trade practice time for remedial classroom sessions under NCAA academic progress reports released Tuesday. Poor Academic Progress Rate scores mean postseason bans in the 2013-14 academic year for teams from 10 schools: Alabama State, A... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 01:50:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/basketball/2144724-ncaa-apr-hits-schools-with-lesser-resources.html 2013-06-12T01:50:30Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2136268-wal-mart-plans-15b-stock-buybacks.html FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart's biggest news at its annual meeting on Friday was that the world's largest retailer will repurchase up to $15 billion of its shares at a time when the behemoth faces increased scrutiny from investors over its business overseas. The buyback replaces the current $15 billion share repurchase program that Wal-Mart began in ... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:05:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2136268-wal-mart-plans-15b-stock-buybacks.html 2013-06-07T21:05:13Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2119496-tornadoes-touch-oklahoma-arkansas.html OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — At least three tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma, including one in Tulsa, and two more hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine people were injured. The National Weather Service confirmed at least one tornado touched down Thursday night in the Tulsa suburb of Broken Ar... Fri, 31 May 2013 07:56:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2119496-tornadoes-touch-oklahoma-arkansas.html 2013-05-31T07:56:24Z http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2099100-qb-mitchell-decides-north-carolina.html FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas quarterback Brandon Mitchell says he is transferring to North Carolina State to play his final season. Mitchell was granted his release from the Razorbacks earlier this month, following a spring competition for the starting position that ended with the senior listed as the second-team quarterback to sophomore Bran... Tue, 21 May 2013 01:48:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/football/2099100-qb-mitchell-decides-north-carolina.html 2013-05-21T01:48:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2088412-judge-rejects-motion-to-dismiss-ark-abortion-suit.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that a challenge to Arkansas' new law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a pregnancy can proceed, rejecting the state's attempt to get the lawsuit dismissed. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright ruled that the lawsuit, which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the C... Wed, 15 May 2013 20:50:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2088412-judge-rejects-motion-to-dismiss-ark-abortion-suit.html 2013-05-15T20:50:34Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2066248-mississippi-prepares-push-education.html CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) — It's early on a Friday morning, and high school chemistry students in Victoria Dawson's class are working equations at the board. Dawson is peppering the class of 11 girls and four boys with questions, trying to keep everyone focused as she helps correct mistakes. When a student gets one of the dense equations right, Dawson and th... Mon, 06 May 2013 17:52:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2066248-mississippi-prepares-push-education.html 2013-05-06T17:52:58Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2055048-cabrera-fielder-homer-tigers-beat-twins-6-1.html DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera and Prince Fielder each hit a two-run homer, Justin Verlander pitched seven strong innings and the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 6-1 Tuesday night for their fifth straight victory. Verlander (3-2) allowed a run and five hits. He struck out eight and walked two. Vance Worley (0-4) gave up six runs and 10 hits in 4 2-... Wed, 01 May 2013 02:16:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2055048-cabrera-fielder-homer-tigers-beat-twins-6-1.html 2013-05-01T02:16:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2032450-arkansas-turns-to-lethal-injection-drug.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — After surrendering its supply of a lethal injection drug to federal agents in 2011, Arkansas turned to a somewhat surprising place to look for another drug: a list from lawyers for several death row inmates. The state Department of Correction told The Associated Press this week that it decided to use phenobarbital after attorneys ... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 23:18:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2032450-arkansas-turns-to-lethal-injection-drug.html 2013-04-19T23:18:48Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2031620-gun-votes-carry-big-risks-dems-rural.html WASHINGTON (AP) — There is little mystery, from a campaign viewpoint, at least, about the eight senators who crossed party lines in Wednesday's showdown vote on background checks for gun buyers. The four Democrats who voted against broader background checks are from largely rural states that voted heavily against President Barack Obama last fall. Three of... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:29:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2031620-gun-votes-carry-big-risks-dems-rural.html 2013-04-19T18:29:03Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2027278-arkansas-approves-medicaid-expansion-alternative.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' plan to use federal money to buy private insurance for low-income residents won final approval from state lawmakers Wednesday, endorsing a model that several other states are eyeing as a possible alternative to expanding Medicaid. The Republican-controlled Legislature narrowly reached the three-fourths majority needed to... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:46:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2027278-arkansas-approves-medicaid-expansion-alternative.html 2013-04-18T04:46:19Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2024386-lawyers-arkansas-to-use-untried-execution-drug.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas plans to put prisoners to death with a drug that apparently hasn't been used in a U.S. execution, and lawyers for condemned inmates warn that it could take longer for someone to die from it than from other lethal injection drugs. Arkansas Department of Correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson told The Associated Press on Tuesda... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:00:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2024386-lawyers-arkansas-to-use-untried-execution-drug.html 2013-04-17T02:00:56Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2024068-groups-sue-to-block-arkansas-12-week-abortion-ban.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday that seeks to overturn the more restrictive of Arkansas' two new abortion laws, saying the near-ban of abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward is unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and the Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed the suit o... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:55:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2024068-groups-sue-to-block-arkansas-12-week-abortion-ban.html 2013-04-17T00:55:25Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2017994-overanalyze-charges-late-to-win-arkansas-derby.html HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) — Mike Repole wasn't sure what to make of a disappointing start of the year for his standout 3-year-old, Overanalyze, after a fifth-place finish at the Gotham Stakes last month. The owner decided to give the colt a six-week break afterward, a move that paid off in convincing fashion Saturday. Ridden by Rafael Bejarano for the first ... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2017994-overanalyze-charges-late-to-win-arkansas-derby.html 2013-04-14T00:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2014008-3-die-spring-storm-packing-ice-snow-tornadoes.html SHUQUALAK, Miss. (AP) — A strong spring storm that socked the Midwest with ice and heavy, wet snow made its way east, raking the South with tornadoes Thursday, with three deaths blamed on the rough weather and thousands of people without power. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said Thursday one person died and several people we... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:59:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2014008-3-die-spring-storm-packing-ice-snow-tornadoes.html 2013-04-12T03:59:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2012568-severe-storms-sock-midwest-push-east-1-dead.html ST. LOUIS (AP) — At least one death has been blamed on a strong spring storm system that's brought everything from tornadoes to ice and snow to much of the Midwest and parts of the southeast United States. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn said Thursday one person died and several people were injured after a reported tornado str... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:54:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2012568-severe-storms-sock-midwest-push-east-1-dead.html 2013-04-11T18:54:31Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2010034-midwest-hit-with-snow-ice-severe-weather.html WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Storms packing snow, ice and dangerous winds knocked out power in communities throughout the Midwest and prompted Minnesota's governor to call out the state National Guard on Wednesday to help residents. Icy weather left thousands of people in Minnesota in the dark, while another storm threatened to dump several inches of wet sno... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:04:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2010034-midwest-hit-with-snow-ice-severe-weather.html 2013-04-11T04:04:28Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2002798-calif-governor-to-china-investments.html SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown has designs on building some of the most expensive public works projects in the nation and wants to keep the state moving forward in its slow recovery from the recession. Where better to go searching for the money to further those interests than the world's second largest economy and a country that has... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:02:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2002798-calif-governor-to-china-investments.html 2013-04-06T19:02:30Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2002948-federal-lawsuit-filed-arkansas-oil-spill.html MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — Two women who live near an ExxonMobil pipeline that ruptured last week and spilled thousands of barrels of oil in central Arkansas filed a federal lawsuit against the company on Friday. The class-action complaint from Kimla Greene and Kathryn Jane Roachell Chunn comes a week after ExxonMobil Pipeline Co.'s Pegasus pipeline ruptured ... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:32:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2002948-federal-lawsuit-filed-arkansas-oil-spill.html 2013-04-05T23:32:29Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1998792-aid-groups-us-send-cash-food-abroad.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Food aid groups are urging the Obama administration to overhaul the way the United States helps starving people abroad. The White House will not say whether Obama's budget proposal, scheduled to come out next week, will seek to change the way foreign food aid is distributed. But food aid groups, farm groups and their allies in Congress a... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:17:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1998792-aid-groups-us-send-cash-food-abroad.html 2013-04-05T12:17:00Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1998458-arkansas-ag-sets-deadline-exxon-documents.html MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has set an April 10 deadline for ExxonMobil to produce documents connected to the company's oil spill in Mayflower. McDaniel issued a subpoena earlier this week for Exxon's investigative and inspection reports, videos and other data regarding the Pegasus pipeline that ruptured last week in c... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:08:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1998458-arkansas-ag-sets-deadline-exxon-documents.html 2013-04-04T16:08:37Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1993424-feds-send-corrective-order-to-exxon-oil-leak.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Federal pipeline safety officials on Tuesday issued a corrective action order to ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. after one of its pipelines ruptured last week in central Arkansas. The order from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration comes after ExxonMobil's Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday in the small city of Mayflow... Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:37:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1993424-feds-send-corrective-order-to-exxon-oil-leak.html 2013-04-03T01:37:40Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1992096-oily-ducks-arkansas-oil-spill.html MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — The environmental impacts of an oil spill in central Arkansas began to come into focus Monday as officials said a couple of dead ducks and 10 live oily birds were found after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured last week. "I'm an animal lover, a wildlife lover, as probably most of the people here are," Faulkner County Judge Allen Dodson... Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:17:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1992096-oily-ducks-arkansas-oil-spill.html 2013-04-02T02:17:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1991412-arkansas-gop-led-legislature-passes-voter-law.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas legislators passed a law Monday requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, overriding Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of the bill, which he called an expensive solution to a non-existent problem. The Republican-led state House voted 52-45, largely along party lines, to complete an override that started ... Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:47:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1991412-arkansas-gop-led-legislature-passes-voter-law.html 2013-04-01T21:47:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1989374-rivals-prepare-legal-battle-abortion-bans.html Rival legal teams, well-financed and highly motivated, are girding for court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation's toughest bans on abortion. For all their differences, attorneys for the two states and the abortion-rights supporters opposing them agree on this: The laws represent an unpr... Sun, 31 Mar 2013 17:55:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1989374-rivals-prepare-legal-battle-abortion-bans.html 2013-03-31T17:55:25Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1988688-south-near-solid-block-obamacare.html ATLANTA (AP) — As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors who lead some of the nation's poorest and unhealthiest states. "Not in South Carolina," Gov. Nikki Haley declared at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference. "We will not expand Med... Sat, 30 Mar 2013 20:05:34 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1988688-south-near-solid-block-obamacare.html 2013-03-30T20:05:34Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1986178-us-soybean-farmers-growth-potential-edamame.html MULBERRY, Ark. (AP) — A small but growing number of farmers have been experimenting with an edible soybean as they look to capitalize on Americans' interest in adding non-meat proteins to their diets. The United States is one of the world's top soybean producers, but most beans grown here are used to make cooking oil and feed farm animals. They aren't eat... Fri, 29 Mar 2013 07:09:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1986178-us-soybean-farmers-growth-potential-edamame.html 2013-03-29T07:09:32Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1983130-ark-senate-overrides-voter-veto-house-to-vote.html LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Senate voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of legislation that would require voters to show photo identification before casting a ballot. The Republican-led Senate voted 21-12, along party lines, to override the veto. There was no debate beforehand. The bill's sponsor, Republican state Sen. B... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:59:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1983130-ark-senate-overrides-voter-veto-house-to-vote.html 2013-03-27T22:59:07Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1980230-gears-up-legal-dispute-abortion-laws.html BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple said his decision to sign strict new abortion laws, including the nation's toughest restriction on the procedure, was not based on "any religious belief or personal experience" and that he believes legislators have a right to ask such questions about abortion restrictions. The Republican governor sign... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:07:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1980230-gears-up-legal-dispute-abortion-laws.html 2013-03-27T07:07:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1975328-saplings-anne-franks-tree-take-root-us.html INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam are being distributed to 11 locations in the United States as part of a project that aims to preserve her legacy and promote tolerance. The tree, one of the Jewish teenager's only connections to nature whil... Sat, 23 Mar 2013 18:57:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1975328-saplings-anne-franks-tree-take-root-us.html 2013-03-23T18:57:49Z