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A 99-year-old woman is on the road to recovery from the coronavirus after exercising the Right To Try Act and receiving hydroxychloroquine treatment, her family says. Doctors say Evelyn Rand is doing “outstanding” and has hope for a “full recovery” after being one of the first of 38 residents in her Little Rock, Arkansas, nursing home to be diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to THV 11 News. Rand’s family credits the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which has been touted by President Trump to the dismay of many of his critics, as effective in helping her recover. "We did ask for them...

<p>LITTLE ROCK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday blocked Arkansas’ order preventing the state’s only surgical abortion clinic from performing the procedure during the coronavirus pandemic.</p> <p>The decision came as health officials announced that at least 1,498 people in the state have been infected with the coronavirus, an increase over the 1,410 reported a day earlier. Two more people died because of the virus, bringing the state’s death toll to 32.</p>

A federal judge in Florida on Monday shot down an emergency request from former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) and fellow beachfront property owners to be exempted from a public health order that cut off beach access during the pandemic. Huckabee, the father of President Trump’s former White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, argued that a county ordinance blocking him from access to the Gulf of Mexico shoreline behind his estimated $3.3 million home violated his constitutional rights. U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson on Monday denied the suit brought by Huckabee and more than a dozen other plaintiffs that...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A women's health clinic is suing Arkansas over a state order banning elective abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Little Rock Family Planning Services says in the complaint that 20 potential patients will have their appointments canceled this week because of the order. It says the ban endangers the lives of patients because they might leave the state to seek an abortion elsewhere. The American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit in federal court Monday on the clinic's behalf. Arkansas on Friday ordered health providers to postpone abortions that aren’t immediately necessary to protect the life or...

Activists from every20seconds.org protested at 4 office Park Drive in Little Rock Arkansas around 8am-11 or so on Good Friday when it was scheduled to be open. The murder the unborn clinic was opened on Tuesday and Thursday of that week and had vehicles from out of state. Governor Asa Hutchinson & his Arkansas Health Department refused to shutdown the abortion clinic in the state like Texas and Louisiana other states have done over a week ago. (Oklahoma and Oregon clinics defied their state orders). A Federal appeals court ruled in favor of Texas shutting down their abortion clinic. After...

My 12-year-old daughter was playing basketball alone at the court, when a city truck drove over to her. City workers told me that they were taking down the rim to keep groups from gathering. My family lives on a small mountain in a suburb of Little Rock, Arkansas, and behind our home is a city green space with a small basketball court and walking trail. Throughout our city are several of these basketball courts and trails. The court by our house is fairly ignored. Because it is at the base of a hill, it floods during rainstorms, so my husband...

Hunter Biden’s baby boy is a week old, but it may be months before his grandfather Joe Biden gets to meet him. Hunter’s wife, Melissa Cohen - who he wed last May, after knowing her for six days - gave birth to a “beautiful and healthy” son on March 28, according to her brother, Garyn Cohen. But presidential candidate, Joe, 77, is currently under a state-mandated lockdown at his home in Wilmington, Del., amid the coronavirus pandemic. **SNIP** Baby-boy Biden was born in Los Angeles, where the family is living in a $2.5 million home in the Hollywood Hills. He’s...

Add Arkansas to the list of states where the governor has banned abortions along with, other non-essential medical procedures, to help fight the coronavirus by conserving medical supplies. Governor Asa Hutchinson released a letter via the Arkansas state health department on Friday that all health care facilities postpone all surgeries and procedures that are not medically necessary during the current COVID-19 pandemic. In his statement the Governor said that all ambulatory surgical centers and all abortion facilities are included. On Saturday afternoon, state Senator Trent Garner posted a copy of the letter and thanked Governor Hutchinson for issuing the ban...

There are now only nine states in America that are not under stay-at-home orders by their governors. Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arkansas,, and South Carolina are now the only states where residents are not under orders to only leave their homes for “essential” purposes. “The contrast is the starkest in five states — Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota,, and South Dakota — where there are no such orders in place, either in major cities or statewide. Another four had partial restrictions issued locally in certain cities or counties,” the New York Times reports. Is this...

A projection of how many will die from Covid-19 infection in the United States and the President signaling a longer duration for the coronavirus situation but first A riot broke out at a prison in northeastern Syria housing Islamic State detainees and operated by Kurdish elements of the "Syrian Democratic Forces". Some prisoners escaped and others took over a floor of the prison.... The shape of a new "unity" government in Israel is emerging that will raise the profile of the political faction headed by the former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz that calls itself the Israel...

The daughter was killed in the same house where her mother was killed. Almost 23 years after an Arkansas mother was murdered by a 16-year-old, the convicted killer allegedly killed her daughter, police said. Deputies from the Crittenden County Sheriff's Office responded to a call on Wednesday at the historical Snowden House in Horseshoe Lake where they saw a possible suspect fleeing the property. Police located "a possible suspect who jumped from an upstairs window and ran to a vehicle that he drove across the yard and got stuck in the yard at the Snowden house, the suspect then jumped...

Watching it live ..... formed quickly into a huge intense tornado in town

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Truck drivers are some of the country's unsung heroes as they work non-stop to deliver supplies. A Fire Department in Little Rock has opened their doors to make sure they have a place to get food on their routes. Quail Creek Fire Department Chief James Church shared a Facebook post on Saturday, letting the community know they will be providing a hot meal for truckers at no cost. The post now has over 7,000 shares. The department said its been on the hearts to help truckers as they haul necessities across the country. When they heard...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is floating a plan to “get cash into the hands of affected workers and their families” due to national shutdowns of businesses in nearly every industry from the coronavirus outbreak. In a series of posts online and in a Fox News Channel interview, Cotton said American workers who are being forced to stay home from their jobs due to shutdowns in the midst of the coronavirus crisis need immediate relief in the form of cash payments. The monetary policy, known as Universal Basic Income (UBI), has made its way into the national spotlight over the last...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Monday called for the United States to take more drastic measures to address the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, including a national “shutdown” that would only exclude “absolutely essential work” and stipends to affected workers to assist them in paying their bills as the pandemic continues to unfold across the globe. “The time has come for extraordinary measures to combat the Chinese coronavirus. What seems extreme today will seem obvious tomorrow,” Cotton, an outspoken skeptic of the House’s relief package, said on Monday.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) introduced legislation Thursday to repatriate pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to America, aiming to reduce a dependency that could seriously limit the U.S. coronavirus response. The bill, which Cotton introduced with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), aims to severely curtail the volume of Chinese active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) from the U.S. medical drug supply. The PRC currently produces most of the world's APIs—the "active ingredients" in commonly used drugs—leaving the United States and other nations critically dependent on it for medicines.

An Arkansas Department of Health employee faces a felony charge of first-degree battery after North Little Rock police said he ran over a man with his car during a dispute, leaving the man injured. A Department of Health spokeswoman, Danyelle McNeill, said in an email Thursday that Aldo Reyes, 39, has been placed on leave amid a department investigation into his arrest. Reyes was arrested about 8:40 p.m. Saturday after police responded to 5501 MacArthur Drive in North Little Rock, according to an arrest report. At the scene, an officer reported seeing a victim lying in the road with severe...

A judge in Arkansas approved a settlement in the paternity lawsuit against Hunter Biden. **SNIP** Biden, 50, agreed to pay for child support, reimburse Roberts for the cost of their child's health insurance, and cover some attorney's fees and costs. The amounts are redacted as all the "essential terms" of the order have been sealed and will be kept "in a secure location inaccessible by the public," according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. **SNIP** Should issues arise in the future, Thursday's order said the Arkansas judiciary "retains jurisdiction of the parties and the subject matter of this case for any further...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday that there are now six presumptive cases of the coronavirus in Arkansas. Positive tests for the virus were reported in Saline, Jefferson, Grant and Pulaski counties. Schools in those counties have been temporarily closed. According to Hutchinson, four of those who tested positive had contact with a patient in Pine Bluff who was the first person in the state to test positive. One person is a UAMS Medical Center employee who was working at Arkansas Children's Hospital. Arkansas Department of Health Director Nate Smith said the first person to...

First presumptive case of coronavirus confirmed in Arkansas, governor says Author: THV11 Digital Published: 10:47 AM CDT March 11, 2020 Updated: 11:15 AM CDT March 11, 2020 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — According to Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the first case presumptive COVID-19 case in Arkansas has been confirmed out of a Pine Bluff hospital. Gov. Hutchinson announced the case in a press conference on Wednesday, March 11. He said the case has been tested by the Arkansas Department of Health and will be sent to the CDC for further testing. The patient has an out of state travel history, so it...