LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe and Wal-Mart officials are planning to announce an "important step" in the state's efforts to change the way Medicaid and private insurers in the state pay for medical services.

Beebe, state Surgeon General Joe Thompson and officials with the world's largest retailer plan an announcement Thursday at

CONWAY, Ark. (AP) - Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the capital murder trial of a former doctor charged in a decade-old double slaying in central Arkansas.

Jury selection is to start Thursday in Conway in the capital murder trial of 63-year-old Richard Conte.

Conte was charged with two counts of capital murder in 2011 in the 2002 shooting

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dustin McDaniel is speaking at a Forrest City Chamber of Commerce event in his first public speech since admitting to an extramarital relationship.

McDaniel is to speak Thursday night at the chamber's banquet at East Arkansas Community College. A spokesman said McDaniel

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court is slated to hear a challenge from a death row inmate convicted in a 2007 slaying.

The state's highest court is expected to hear oral arguments Thursday in the case of 34-year-old Brandon Eugene Lacy.

Lacy claims he had ineffective counsel leading up to his conviction and death sentence in