WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Guided by ocean plankton fossils and climate models, scientists have calculated just how cold it got on Earth during the depths of the last Ice Age, when immense ice sheets covered large parts of North America, South America, Europe and ... More »
(Reuters) – An Arkansas city council candidate who twice showed up too late to vote for himself in a contest that ended in a tie wound up losing the race on Thursday in a dice roll to decide the winner. Becky Linebaugh, an incumbent alderman in the small town ... More »
(Reuters) – Arkansas’ attorney general on Thursday joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their risks. Arkansas Attorney Gener... More »
Hunter Chafin, 19, suspected of robbing a bank, is shown in this Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, Arkansas, U.S., photo released on October 14, 2016. Carroll County Sheriff’s Office/Handout via REUTERS An Arkansas man suspected of robbing a bank and arranging ... More »
(This 28 August 2015 story was refiled to add the dropped word “court” in the first paragraph) Planned Parenthood filed a complaint in Alabama federal court on Friday seeking to stop the state from defunding its health clinics after the release of covertly rec... More »
