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Arkansas Attorney General Rejects Marijuana Proposal

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has again rejected a proposed constitutional amendment for the 2018 ballot to legalize marijuana in the state.…

A boat floats between flooded homes in Hammond, La., after heavy rains inundated the southeastern part of the state.

Flooding In Louisiana Raises Questions About Timing, Urgency Of Warnings

More than a dozen people have died and tens of thousands of homes have been damaged by floodwaters. Local authorities and residents wonder if something more could have been done to lessen the toll.

Raylene Monterroza (left) was one of nine California public school students who challenged the state's teacher tenure laws. The California Supreme Court declined to hear their case.

California Teacher Tenure Laws Upheld

The state Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge to laws protecting senior teachers. Opponents argued that tenure harms poor and minority students, saddling them with incompetent teachers.

Arkansas Insurance Department Commissioner Alan Kerr (front) and Communications Director K Ryan James at a meeting of the Health Reform Legislative Task Force.

Arkansas Readies To Submit Health Insurance Rate Hikes, Commissioner Predicts Bigger Increase In '18

The Arkansas Insurance Department is submitting health insurance rate increase requests to the federal government for approval on Tuesday and state…

Americans Like Their Schools Just Fine — But Not Yours

Two new polls show contradictions and partisan divides in the public's opinion of education.

The so-called Voynich Manuscript, a small unassuming book usually stored in a Yale University vault, is one of the most mysterious books in the world. A small publishing house in northern Spain has finally secured the right to replicate the document.

Mysterious, Encrypted Medieval Manuscript Set To Be Published In Replica

Want to try to crack the code of the Voynich Manuscript, written in an unknown language with unrecognizable illustrations? You might soon be able to buy a precise copy of the book ... for some $8,000.

Firas Awad (left) and wife Tamam Aldrawsha, from Syria, spend hours studying German every day. Awad wants to complete the pharmacy studies he abandoned because of the Syrian war, and Aldrawsha wants to become a nurse. "I want to be useful," she says. "Useful for my family and useful for this country."

In A Tiny German Town, Residents And Refugees Adapt

Klosterheide, population 280, is hosting 60 refugees. Some locals are wary. "Those who don't try have no chance to correct their bad prejudices," says a local official who coordinates refugee housing.

President Obama walks with a family to tour their flood-damaged home in the Castle Place neighborhood of Baton Rouge, La., on Tuesday.

President Obama Tours Flood Destruction In Louisiana

Obama visited a neighborhood in East Baton Rouge Parish more than a week after flooding hit southeastern Louisiana, killing at least 13 people and damaging or destroying more than 60,000 homes.

Arkansas Panel To Review Proposed Ten Commandments, Satan Monuments

An Arkansas panel has set a meeting next month to review proposals to set up monuments to the Ten Commandments and Satan near the state Capitol.Arkansas…

A&L Short: Guitar Dave

Music can provide the life to a dull party or maybe to calm a rambunctious toddler. On the streets of downtown Little Rock, musician GuitarDave Fredieu…

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