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Latest Arkansas News

State programs in U.S. add safety net for the poorest
Arkansas and at least a dozen other states are giving monthly payments to thousands of low-income workers in hopes of keeping their residents off the welfare rolls.

State Programs Add Safety Net for the Poorest
Arkansas and at least a dozen other states are giving monthly payments to thousands of low-income workers in hopes of keeping their residents off the welfare rolls.

Regulators close US regional bank
ANB Financial, a $2.1bn bank in Arkansas, was on Friday closed down by US regulators, and became largest bank failure of the year and the third largest failure since the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. The development comes amid warnings

Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child (AP)
AP - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman � she's pregnant with her 18th child.

DVM, assistants serve small Belize community
BERRYSVILLE, ARK. What started as a vacation led an Arkansas veterinary clinic to set up operations temporarily in a rural Central American town, with staff members vowing to help improve the community's animal-control methods and veterinary care. The

Man finds check from 1971 after Arkansas tornadoes (AP)
AP - Tornadoes that tore through Arkansas last week picked up homes, cars and everything in between � including a check from 1971.

"Lioness" shows U.S. women on frontline in Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - Women are officially barred from frontline combat in the U.S. military, but a new documentary shows that in Iraq, some are "out there playing GI Joe with the guys," as one female soldier puts it.

Arkansas governor urges schools to build safe rooms
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Ark. governor urges schools to install tornado-safe rooms (AP)

AP - Just before the tornado sirens sounded, school superintendent Floyd Marshall got the warning from police � a twister was coming right for the town's elementary and high school.

Wal-Mart expands low-price drug program; Target follows (AP)

AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, announced Monday it would expand its discounted prescription drug program to offer 90-day supplies for $10 and add several women's medications at a discount. It also said it would lower the price of more than 1,000 over-the-counter drugs.

Country Information

Introduction
Arkansas became the United States' twenty-fifth state on June 15, 1836. The state's largest city and capital is Little Rock. The state gets its name from a Sioux word "acansa", meaning "downstream place". The pronunciation of the state's name has been subject to discussion for many years until the General Assembly declared in 1881 the correct way to say the state's name is "Ark an-SAW". Arkansas is home to the only active diamond mines in the nation as well as birthplace of President Bill Clinton. The Natural State has 52,075 square miles and ranks 27th in land size.

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