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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Tess Vrbin / Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas judge weighing future of lawsuit challenging state’s abortion ban (opens the original)

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    A Pulaski County circuit judge is considering whether to dismiss the constitutional challenge to Arkansas’ abortion ban after hearing arguments from the plaintiffs and the state in a two-hour hearing Monday. Circuit Judge Cara Connors did not say when she expected to rule regarding the lawsuit filed earlier this year by six women and an obstetrician-gynecologist challenging Arkansas’ abortion law. Arkansas has among the nation’s strictest abortion bans, and the challenge against it is the first

  2. Article · Sep 21, 2026 · Tess Vrbin / Arkansas Advocate

    South Korean defense contractor will build $2.2 billion factory at Pine Bluff Arsenal (opens the original)

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    WHITE HALL — A South Korean company announced Monday it will build its first United States facility that produces artillery ammunition at Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, creating about 400 jobs with an average wage of $50 per hour over seven years. Hanwha Defense USA’s $2.2 billion factory “is the kind of transformational investment Jefferson County and the Delta need,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at Monday’s news conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony that celebrated the opening of new admin

  3. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Tess Vrbin

    Families of Arkansas children with disabilities say more action needed on waitlist - North Country Now (opens the original)

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    Families of Arkansas children with disabilities packed the Old Supreme Court room at the state Capitol on Wednesday and urged Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to take further action toward clearing a waiting list for supportive services. More than 2,400 Arkansas families are waiting for a Medicaid waiver that will help them meet their children’s complex medical and non-medical needs. A maximum of 8,233 Arkansans can receive supportive services from the waiver, and many families spend years on the wai

  4. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Tess Vrbin / Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas pharmacies file lawsuit accusing PBM of underpaying them for medications (opens the original)

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    Twelve Arkansas pharmacies sued a pharmacy benefit manager in federal court Tuesday, alleging the company illegally underpaid them for tens of thousands of prescription medications. The complaint accuses St. Louis-based Express Scripts of violating a 2015 law that requires pharmacy benefit managers, also known as PBMs, to pay pharmacies at least the national average of what drugstores pay wholesalers for drugs. The pharmacies that filed the suit include one run by Republican Rep. Brandon Achor a

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Tess Vrbin / Arkansas Advocate

    Arkansas will bolster services for kids with disabilities after public outcry over long waitlist (opens the original)

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    Arkansas will provide additional support to children with disabilities who have been waiting for services, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday, in response to growing demands from families for a special legislative session to address the issue. Sanders announced that the Department of Human Services will provide supportive living services to families on the waiting list for the Community and Employment Services Medicaid waiver. The department will also work on “additional long-term solution

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