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Arkansas's Private Option Plan Ranked As Top Story Of 2013

Nathan Vandiver
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KUAR

Arkansas' unusual approach to expand health insurance for low-income residents by using Medicaid money for private coverage is the top story of 2013, as voted on by Associated Press members.

Coming in second is the Mayflower oil spill, while the quest to end Arkansas' desegregation payments is third.

The already-heated Senate race between U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor and U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton is fourth, and Clarksville's plan to arm some schoolteachers came in fifth.

The arrest and resignation of Treasurer Martha Shoffner was voted sixth, and the Legislature's passage of strict abortion restrictions came in seventh.

The flash flooding that killed the Scott County sheriff and three others is eighth, while the Arkansas governor's race came in ninth. The planned $1 billion steel mill in Osceola rounded out the list.

The Associated Press is one of the largest and most trusted sources of independent newsgathering, supplying a steady stream of news to its members, international subscribers and commercial customers. AP is neither privately owned nor government-funded; instead, it's a not-for-profit news cooperative owned by its American newspaper and broadcast members.