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Robert Redford is urging U.S. President Barack Obama to act swiftly

Full text, as prepared, of Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address.

Rick Crawford, John Boozman, and Tim Griffin react to the Obama's speech.

The uniforms are boxed, the bags are packed, and the Little Rock Central High School band is headed to Washington, DC. Thursday morning, the marching unit left to perform in the inauguration parade for President Barack Obama.

The Central High Marching Band received $5,000 to help them meet their goal of participating in the 57th Presidential Inaugural Parade in Washington, D.C.

Saturday, the Little Rock High School band held a community pep rally at the Rivermarket to raise money for a unique opportunity. The unit will march in the Presidential inaugural parade.

Spurred by a horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama vowed to send Congress new policy proposals for reducing gun violence by January.

President Barack Obama rolled to re-election Tuesday night, vanquishing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney despite a weak economy that plagued his first term and put a crimp in the middle class dreams of millions. In victory, he confidently promised better days ahead.

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

President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday the United States would "work with the Libyan government to bring to justice" those who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

At two years old, Luis Miguel Lopez came to America with his family from Mexico.

U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) and Congressman Tim Griffin (AR-02) issued statements in response to President Obama's unilateral decision to stop deporting and begin giving work permits to illegal immigrants Friday.

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.

Wednesday, President Barack Obama became the first U.S. President to support gay marriage. While that news is not sitting well with some Arkansans, others say attitudes on same-sex marriage in Arkansas are changing.

President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage, ending months of equivocation on a subject with powerful election-year consequences.

The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of a Little Rock lawyer to a federal judgeship in the Eastern District of Arkansas.

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is celebrating the opening of its Arkansas headquarters as it tries to rally support in a state where the president remains deeply unpopular.

On Thursday Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) Deputy Branch Chief for Homeland Security Chad Stover will be one of 17 local leaders honored at the White House as a "Champion of Change."

President Barack Obama has nominated a Little Rock lawyer to a federal judgeship in the Eastern District of Arkansas.

Gov. Mike Beebe says he doesn't expect President Barack Obama to win Arkansas' six electoral votes next year and said he'll "probably" vote for the fellow Democrat.

Milli Butler's daughter is serving in Iraq, but not for long. Army Captain Taneshia Johnson and roughly 40,000 of her fellow soldiers will come back home very soon.

President Barack Obama on Friday declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest and most divisive conflicts in U.S. history, announcing that all American troops would be withdrawn from the country by year's end.