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Arkansas Online
February 16, 2018
Former state Sen. Jon Woods (right), surrounded by members of his legal team, walks Nov. 30 into the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building in Fayetteville. Comments (2); aAFont Size. FAYETTEVILLE -- The government's own attorneys said Thursday that they don't believe the reason given by theirÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
January 31, 2018
Arkansas senator who pleaded guilty in fraud case submits resignation, cites pride in work. By Michael R. Wickline. Posted: January 31, 2018 at 4:30 a.m.. David Gottschalk Credit: NWA Democrat-Gazette State Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, walks Monday, January 29, 2018, into the Judge Isaac C. Parker Federal BuildingÃÂ ...
Pine Bluff Commercial
January 29, 2018
In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith, appears in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Files, pleaded guilty Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, to federal charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. Files was accused of misusing $25,000 in stateÃÂ ...
5newsonline.com
January 29, 2018
FORT SMITH (KFSM) -- State Sen. Jake Files, R-Fort Smith has pleaded guilty to fraud and money laundering charges, according to court documents. Files, 45, pleaded guilty Monday (Jan. 29) to one count each of wire fraud, money laundering and bank fraud, according to Dak Kees, U.S. Attorney for theÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 26, 2018
Former state Sen. Jon Woods (right), surrounded by members of his legal team, walks Nov. 30 into the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building in Fayetteville. Comments; aAFont Size. Search mug shots, government salaries, crime maps and more at our Right2Know page. Latest crime stories. Police: 2ÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
January 25, 2018
William Saletan writes in Slate about Sen. Tom Cotton's dishonesty and the alarming prospect that he has been mentioned as potential director of the CIA. The opening: Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, is becoming President Trump's right arm in the Senate. Or maybe it's the other wayÃÂ ...
KARK
January 25, 2018
WASHINGTON D.C. - Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton finds himself in the trenches of the immigration debate. He was one of the senators that helped kill the bipartisan DACA deal developed by Senators Lindsay Graham and Richard Durbin. He was at the infamous immigration meeting at the White HouseÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 25, 2018
FAYETTEVILLE -- Former state Rep. Micah Neal, who pleaded guilty to accepting kickbacks, will testify in a hearing today in the case of his accused co-conspirators, according to a passage in a court order Wednesday. Neal's attorney, Shane Wilkinson of Bentonville, confirmed that Neal has beenÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
January 24, 2018
Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, is becoming President Trump's right arm in the Senate. Or maybe it's the other way around, and Cotton, a right-wing ideologue, is helping to steer the president. Either way, Trump's behavior in the immigration debate—turning against a legislativeÃÂ ...
ASU News
January 24, 2018
(From left) Shane Broadway, vice president for university relations at the ASU System Office, A-State Chancellor Kelly Damphousse, Loren and former Arkansas senator Tim Hutchinson. JONESBORO — Donald P. Loren (holding plaque), assistant secretary, operations, security and preparedness, U.S.ÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times
January 23, 2018
There was once a United States senator from Arkansas, Tom Cotton by name, and like Cassius, he had a lean and hungry look about him. But in less time than it takes grass to grow between mowings, the distinguished senator has become merely another henchman to the cabal running the White House.
KMVT
January 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - Our coastlines could be in harm's way. Not because of a storm or a tidal wave, but because of ocean acidification. Carbon dioxide emissions are changing the chemistry of our oceans which could have a negative impact on coastlines and economies. Senator Lisa MurkowskiÃÂ ...
Splinter (blog)
January 18, 2018
The underlying premise of being an elected official is that you are supposed to listen to your constituents. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, however, evidently doesn't want to do this. According to the activist group Ozark Indivisible, the Republican's office has been mailing out cease and desist letters to aÃÂ ...
CNBC
January 15, 2018
Georgia Senator David Perdue called reports describing Trump as using vile language in the meeting a "gross misrepresentation." Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton told CBS' Face The Nation that he did not hear Trump call Haiti and African nations s---thole countries. Cotton accused Democrat Senator DickÃÂ ...
KATV
January 13, 2018
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was in the room when the reported comment took place, but he and another senator said in a statement that they did not recall the exact ... "Our call to Senator Tom Cotton as it is to all of Arkansas' senators and congressmen, we need them to be honest and direct and recognize what PresidentÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
January 11, 2018
Former state Sen. Jon Woods (right), surrounded by members of his legal team, walks Nov. 30 into the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building in Fayetteville. Latest headlines. Alabama beats Georgia 26-23 in OT for title ÷ Michigan hires former Arkansas offensive coordinator Dan Enos to join staff.
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
December 29, 2017
FORT SMITH -- State Sen. Jake Files lost the family home Thursday when it and two other properties were auctioned off to satisfy $2.1 million in loan defaults. First Western Bank of Booneville successfully bid $2,048,400 on the three properties in three commissioner sales conducted by Sebastian CountyÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 21, 2017
Subpoena Notes Link Among Arkansas Senator, Co-Defendants. Public records, including a federal subpoena, show that a legislative act sponsored by a former state senator established a fund that could have benefited shingle recyclers like his two co-defendants in a public corruption case. Dec. 21, 2017ÃÂ ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
December 16, 2017
... including tens of millions of low-income and middle-class Americans who actually would face a tax increase. In Arkansas, approximately half of the benefits of this tax cut will go to the top 5 percent of earners. By voting for this bill, Arkansas Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman voted against the bestÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON -- Arkansas' two U.S. senators said Thursday they will vote for a new budget agreement that dramatically increases federal spending. The package would be an increase of roughly $300 billion over the next two years. The four Arkansans in the U.S. House of Representatives, all RepublicansÃÂ ...
KNWA
December 31, 1999
Fayetteville, AR -- - An Arkansas Senator is trying to save unborn babies who have been diagnosed with down syndrome. Senator Trent Garner is proposing a new law called the Down Syndrome by Abortion Prohibition Act. It will prevent women from aborting an infant due to a down syndrome diagnosis.
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
A second Republican senator from Arkansas has been named to the Senate Budget Committee, his office said in a news release. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said in a Tuesday statement that he looks forward to serving on the committee and developing a "real, responsible" federal budget that reflects America'sÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
Prosecutor, FBI agent ordered to deliver files in public-corruption case involving former Arkansas senator. By Doug Thompson. This article was published January 10, 2018 at 4:30 a.m.. former-state-sen-jon-woods-right-surrounded-by-. PHOTO BY ANDY SHUPE. Former state Sen. Jon Woods (right), surrounded byÃÂ ...
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
Former state Sen. Jon Woods (right), surrounded by members of his legal team, walks Nov. 30 into the John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building in Fayetteville. FAYETTEVILLE -- Attorney W.H. Taylor was taken into a closed federal court hearing for an hour and a half as a witness Wednesday in theÃÂ ...
HuffPost
November 11, 2017
Here's Cotton in a nutshell: A 40-year-old senator from Arkansas. A hardliner on immigration. A foe of criminal justice reform. A favorite of ...
Cheddar
November 1, 2017
Tom Cotton, a Republican Senator from Arkansas, joins Cheddar in the wake of a terrorist attack that left eight dead and more injured in New ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
November 1, 2017
The top Republican in the Arkansas Senate said Tuesday that his company ended an agreement with a drug rehabilitation program after former ...
KUAR
October 31, 2017
The Republican leader of the Arkansas Senate says his company is cutting ties with a drug rehabilitation program amid reports that workers ...
ABC News
October 31, 2017
The top Republican in the Arkansas Senate said Tuesday that his company terminated its agreement with a drug rehabilitation program after ...
MyNewsLA.com
October 21, 2017
Photo via Flckr. Judge and Fox news host Jeanine Pirro at CPAC 2017 Feb. 23, by Michael Vadon. Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton and Fox News ...
Times Record
September 19, 2017
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas' Republican governor said Tuesday he backs a revived effort to repeal former President Barack Obama's health ...
Arkansas Times (blog)
December 31, 1999
It depicts the ambitious junior senator from Arkansas as successfully navigating a divide in the Republican Party. It also depicts him as a stout ...
Arkansas Online
December 31, 1999
FAYETTEVILLE -- Defense attorneys in a case involving former state Sen. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, lost their claim that government attorneys ...
OzarksFirst.com
September 22, 2017
The Graham-Cassidy healthcare proposal is seeing support from governor Asa Hutchinson and both Arkansas senators. For Arkansans, itÃÂ ...
KATV
September 15, 2017
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Two additional charges have been added to the federal indictment of former Arkansas Senator Jon Woods.
KATV
September 12, 2017
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — 16 years ago, three planes were hijacked and crashed into the trade center, the Pentagon, and a field in PennsylvaniaÃÂ ...
KATV
September 8, 2017
... least another year and a half, when lawmakers are back in session, one Arkansas senator is getting a head start and drafting a new gun bill.
KATV
September 7, 2017
... at least another year and a half, when lawmakers are back in session, one Arkansas senator is getting a head start; drafting a new gun bill.
KATV
September 7, 2017
... at least another year and a half, when lawmakers are back in session, one Arkansas senator is getting a head start; drafting a new gun bill.
OzarksFirst.com
September 6, 2017
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton says Congress should bring certainty to those stuck in legal limbo and urged tightening of immigration policy toÃÂ ...
Truthdig
September 2, 2017
Augustus Hill Garland, a former Arkansas senator in the Confederate States of America, and once a supporter of the “Know Nothing” party,ÃÂ ...
Orlando Sentinel
September 2, 2017
J. William Fulbright, the late long-serving senator from Arkansas, was an avowed racist who opposed integrating schools and fought againstÃÂ ...
9news.com.au
August 30, 2017
Arkansas senator Tom Cotton introduced a bill that would declare Russia in breach of the treaty, signed by President Reagan and the USSR'sÃÂ ...
OzarksFirst.com
August 22, 2017
WASHINGTON D.C.-- Former Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor is pushing for confederate monuments to come down, and said President TrumpÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
August 22, 2017
A search warrant application filed in U.S. District Court accuses an Arkansas senator of using more than $25,000 General Improvement FundÃÂ ...
SECcountry.com
August 20, 2017
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Washington, D.C., always could have used a man like Frank Broyles. Perhaps now more than ever. Broyles was a man of principle,ÃÂ ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
August 19, 2017
Arkansas senator revisits race-panel idea after events in Charlottesville. 'Join us,' Elliott urges peers. By Michael R. Wickline. Posted: August 19ÃÂ ...
OzarksFirst.com
August 14, 2017
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-- Arkansas Senator John Boozman is preparing for heart surgery this coming Tuesday. The senator says it is a follow-up toÃÂ ...
KARK
August 13, 2017
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-- Arkansas Senator John Boozman is preparing for heart surgery this coming Tuesday. The senator says it is a follow-up toÃÂ ...
Roll Call
August 11, 2017
The senior senator from Arkansas is having the surgery after 18 months of encouragement from doctors to do the procedure. The TuesdayÃÂ ...
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