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Annual event featuring Gov. Jennifer Granholm is June 15 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.

The 89th General Assembly convenes Monday morning and priority number one for lawmakers centers around Medicaid.

Arkansas Republicans are savoring a prize that eluded them for 138 years after sweeping the state's U.S. House seats and wresting control of the state Senate in Tuesday's election.

Arkansas Democrats will not have a majority of seats in the state House next January, for the first time since Reconstruction.

Craighead County Democrats are gathering in Jonesboro to honor former Arkansas congressman Marion Berry.

Arkansas Democrats are hoping to win against Republicans at the ballot box.

A Jonesboro representative calls the governor and the attorney general part of a "Nazi style political intimidation" against himself and two other Republicans.

Monday night, the Arkansas Republican Party announced it will no longer financially contribute the campaigns of three candidates running for the state legislature.

Monday night, the former congressman who put president Barack Obama's name into nomination in 2008 spoke at the Arkansas Republican Party headquarters.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Arkansas Democratic Party by a Tennessee attorney who wasn't awarded any of the state's delegates despite winning 42 percent of the vote in the party's presidential primary earlier this year.

A former state legislator who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for Congress and lieutenant governor is backing Republican U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford's re-election bid.

Saturday, state GOP members elected 21 delegates and 21 alternates to the Republican National Convention. They are all pledged to Mitt Romney in Tampa this August.

The winners of Tuesday's primary runoffs for a pair of Arkansas congressional seats face vastly different challenges as Democrats try to prevent a Republican takeover of the state's four congressional districts this fall.

The prosecutor who negotiated a plea deal that freed the West Memphis Three has wrapped up the Democratic Party's nomination for an eastern Arkansas congressional seat.

Tuesday night, Q. Byrum Hurst gave his full support to State Senator Gene Jeffress in the race for the Fourth District Congressional seat.

A prosecutor who negotiated the deal that freed three men convicted in the 1993 killing of three Cub Scouts narrowly won Tuesday's Democratic primary runoff for a congressional seat in Arkansas, as did a state senator who campaigned with no paid staff and little money in the bank.

Democrats running for congressional seats in southern and eastern Arkansas are going negative and touting their electability as early voting is set to begin in the primary runoffs for the two seats.

Candidates for congressional seats in east and south Arkansas expressed confidence Monday that they can win their parties' nominations outright, but they also prepared for the possibility that a divided electorate could send the races into a three-week runoff campaign.

Arkansas won't award any delegates to a lawyer running against President Barack Obama in Tuesday's primary, despite predictions that he could pull significant support in a state where the president is unpopular, the state Democratic Party announced Thursday.

An Arkansas judge has dismissed former lawmaker and Harlem Globetrotter Fred Smith's felony theft conviction while state Democrats are suing to keep the ex-legislator off the May primary ballot for his old House seat.

An economics professor said Wednesday he's seeking the Democratic nomination for the 1st Congressional District and becomes the second candidate to announce a bid to challenge freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford in east Arkansas.

Former Senate hopeful D.C. Morrison says he's seeking the Democratic nomination for the south Arkansas congressional seat being vacated by U.S. Rep. Mike Ross.

State Democratic Party Chairman Will Bond says he won't run for a congressional seat representing central Arkansas.