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LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Gwinnett County police are investigating a stolen charter jet that was located Monday afternoon at Briscoe Airfield in suburban Atlanta. Police say the 1995 twin-engine Cessna Citation 7 -- valued at $7 million -- was in St. Augustine, Fla., awaiting its next next charter. The pilot reported the plane missing to the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office at 11:30 a.m. Monday. The 10-passenger executive jet showed up at Briscoe Airfield between 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday. Airport authorities reported it was there after getting getting the bulletin about the missing plane. Whoever stole the jet...

A new law in Arkansas means students enrolled in the state’s public schools will begin attending a mandatory gun safety course during the 2025-2026 school year. FOX News reported that House Bill 1117 was signed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) last week. HB 1117 was sponsored by state Rep. Scott Richardson (R-Bentonville), who explained the conversations with neighbors led to the idea of gun safety training for students, “All of our children play together and invade whatever home happens to be the play of the day. And in that process, they may go into a neighbor’s home and discover...

Elizabeth MacDonald @LizMacDonaldFOX This is disturbing – Biden and Obama Democrats created a new beast, the “popup nonprofit shell” they suddenly launch to take in your taxpayer money supposedly for things like climate change and illegal immigration. Major front for taxpayer abuse with accusations of grift growing by the hour. Never saw it like this in decades covering IRS/taxes. Check out the tax returns for one of these popup NGO shells, the Climate United Fund which got the biggest nonprofit grant in history out of Biden’s massive climate slush funds. Kamala Harris and Biden’s EPA chief Michael Regan gave $7...

I live in Washington state (yeah, I know, don’t start, been here all my life). The politics/crime/liberal insanity is about to the point hubby and I are seriously considering moving after 30+ years in our home. So, we looked up the lowest cost states to live in, and Arkansas is either #1 or #2, depending on the website. We started looking at real estate and are blown away at what you can get verses what the costs are in this state. I just wanted input from any Freepers who live in Arkansas about what it’s like during the summer/winter, any...

New legislation proposed in Arkansas would clarify that abortion by fraud is a crime. H.B. 1551 by Rep. Jimmy Gazaway (R — Paragould) makes it a felony to secretly give a pregnant woman abortion-inducing drugs without her knowledge or consent. Right now abortion in Arkansas is generally prohibited except to save the life of the mother, and it is illegal to deliver abortion-inducing drugs into the state. Arkansas also has laws prohibiting fetal homicide. However, Arkansas has no specific law addressing situations in which a person secretly gives abortion drugs like RU-486 to a pregnant woman. In 2022 a Texas...

Nakara Alston was leaving her boyfriend when she learned she was eight weeks pregnant. In desperation, she got an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Albany, N.Y., and moved with her two daughters into a homeless shelter. But something was clearly wrong. Several weeks after the procedure, she was still bleeding heavily and suffering from painful cramps. She took another home pregnancy test, and when it came back positive, the clinic staff assured her that they had seen the aborted fetus and there was nothing to worry about. It was only after she went to an emergency room that...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – An Arkansas legislative bill that calls for a prohibition on discrimination or preferential treatment has been signed into law. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed Senate Bill 3 into law Tuesday afternoon. The bill prohibits discrimination by Arkansas agencies, either state, local or public, by considering a person’s race or gender.

A nurse in Arkansas is facing felony charges after allegedly using a dead man's name when attempting to purchase oxycodone pills at pharmacies. Caitlin Carol Adams was charged with three counts of fraud or deceit to procure a narcotic drug-forged prescription in connection with multiple drug purchases last month, according to KAIT. Adams is accused of using a fake prescription to purchase 120 oxycodone pills at a pharmacy in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Jan. 2, the outlet reported. She claimed she worked at a nursing home and that the pills were for a patient. Investigators said Adams, who is a licensed...

My father served under Douglas MacArthur in Morotai Indonesia 1945. I refuse to call remembering this vanity. MacArthur was born at Little Rock on the 26th January 1880.

On December 6, 2024, Senator Tom Cotton (Republican of Arkansas) introduced a bill in the Senate to replace “West Bank” in all federal documents with “Judea and Samaria,” noting, “The Jewish people’s legal and historic rights to Judea and Samaria go back thousands of years. The US should stop using the politically charged term West Bank to refer to the biblical heartland of Israel.” His bill matches a House bill introduced earlier this year by Representatives Claudia Tenney, Randy Weber, and Anthony D’Esposito. Yes, they are the Jewish names but also the world’s. In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly...

A federal judge ruled on Monday that sections of an Arkansas law, which sought to impose criminal penalties on librarians and booksellers for distributing “harmful” material to children, were unconstitutional. The law, known as the Arkansas Act 372, was signed into law last year by Republican governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It was challenged by a coalition of organizations in the state, leading to a lengthy legal battle that concluded this week. Two sections of Act 372 subjected librarians and booksellers to jail time for distributing material that is deemed “harmful to children”. Proponents of the law, including Sanders, said the...

Not soon after the general election, and within two weeks of each other, two major financial institutions have left a United Nations Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). This is after they joined three years ago, pledging to require environmental social governance standards (ESG) across their platforms, products and systems. According to the "bank-led and UN-convened" NZBA, global banks joined the alliance, pledging to align their lending, investment, and capital markets activities with a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, NZBA explains. Since April 2021, 145 banks in 44 countries with more than $73 trillion in assets have joined NZBA, tripling...

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) stated that he hasn’t paid attention to the issue of whether or not the Biden administration is disposing of border wall material and “We are expecting this to be a top priority next year, and we’ll deal with that as it comes.” After discussing Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) request for records preservation on border wall materials, host Bret Baier asked, “Sen. Kaine, about that, obviously, we had an election and immigration was one of the issues. And there are some people at home saying, why get...

Senate GOP hawks who receive large sums from the defense industry could be mobilizing to tank one of President-elect Donald Trump’s national security nominees. Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, nominated by Trump to helm the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, could face opposition from Senate Republicans with hawkish views on national security over her beliefs on Ukraine and government surveillance powers. Though a considerable number of Trump-aligned senators have endorsed Gabbard, citing her decades-long military service and commitment to reforming the country’s intelligence agencies that have been frequently weaponized against the president-elect, GOP senators whose national security...

Graphic video Butterball is facing calls for a boycott just days before Thanksgiving after sickening footage of poultry workers allegedly sexually abusing and torturing its turkeys resurfaced on social media. The uproar unfolded after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists posted a decades-old clip online over the weekend that allegedly showed the company’s employees abusing live turkeys at a plant in Ozark, Arkansas. The graphic footage, which soon went viral, was captured during an undercover probe in 2006 in which workers were filmed bashing the birds against steel cages and stomping on their heads, the animal rights...

A groundbreaking lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas accuses financial giants BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street of colluding to manipulate the U.S. coal market. The case, spearheaded by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and supported by 10 other state attorneys general, alleges that these firms have used their substantial ownership stakes in major coal producers to suppress competition and artificially raise energy prices. The states listed as plaintiffs are” Texas Alabama Arkansas Indiana Iowa Kansas Missouri Montana Nebraska West Virginia Wyoming According to the 108-page complaint, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street collectively...

Muslim voters who helped swing the election for President-elect Trump because of their anger over Israel’s offensive in Gaza have decried several of his cabinet choices as too “pro-war,” according to a report. Some of Trump’s earliest cabinet have been pro-Israel die-hards, including: New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who will become the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who has long been an outspoken supporter of Israel’s war against Hamas. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, another Zionist stalwart, will also become ambassador to Israel. “We are very disappointed,” Rexhinaldo Nazarko, executive director of the American...

There is no doubt that President-elect Donald Trump has won a sweeping victory, becoming only the second U.S. president to be elected to a second, non-consecutive term in one of the most remarkable political comeback stories in American history. But his victory in the Electoral College would’ve been even bigger if two factors hadn’t cheated him out of the additional votes he should have received. Why do I say this? Because of the jarring errors the Census Bureau admitted it made in its population numbers for multiple states, and its unfair inclusion of aliens in the population used for congressional...

Researchers have discovered a collection of lithium—a primary component in lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries—in Arkansas that, if recovered, could far exceed the projected world demand for lithium in car batteries in 2030.There might be 5.1 million to 19 million tons of lithium in the Smackover Formation brines in southern Arkansas, researchers at the United States Geological Survey and the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment found. The lithium mine, calculated using a machine-learning model and geological information that predicted maps of lithium concentration, represents 35% to 136% of the current amount of lithium estimated to be in the U.S. Lithium...

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee discusses the latest presidential polling between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on 'The Evening Edit.' 5 minutes 30 seconds.