Lawmakers Propose Alternate Solution to Repeal Trucker Tax
A theater: that's what one Republican called the state Capitol Wednesday as lawmakers tried to come up with a simple solution to a complicated problem, the proposed repeal of a tax break for ...
View ArticleReward Offered after Dog Found Dead, Skinned in Conway
GRAPHIC WARNING: Description of animal cruelty case may be difficult for some to read.A reward is being offered after the shocking discovery of a dead dog in Conway.Police say the animal's ...
View ArticleARORA Pushing for More Arkansas Organ Donors
The push to save more lives is going to the places where doctors work to save lives. Baptist, St. Vincent, UAMS and Arkansas Children's Hospital all signed commitments to help make more ...
View ArticleArk. man charged with death of grandpa cites abuse
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas man charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse claims that he killed his grandfather with a hammer last year and mutilated the body after an ...
View ArticleProsecutor to run for east Ark. congressional seat
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A spokeswoman says prosecutor Scott Ellington will seek the Democratic nomination for an east Arkansas congressional ...
View ArticleElk Range Expansion Plan Stirs Debate
The U.S. Forest Service and the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission are preparing to cut and and clear thousands of acres of forest land as part of a wildlife management expansion project in the ...
View ArticleLR SWAT on Scene of a Stand-Off
Members of a Little Rock SWAT team are at a duplex on the 2800 block of State Street after they say two brothers got into a fight and one of them shot a gun into the ...
View ArticlePipe Bomb Found at NLR Office Building
Update: Missing 5-Year-old Grant County Girl Found Safe in Little Rock Adriyanna Duhon, of Poyen, found all alone at apartments on city's southwest ...
View ArticleLucie's Place Wants to Help Homeless LGBT Youth in Arkansas
The faces we picture as the homeless population are often old, not teenagers who could be the kid next door. "I never really thought about it, just like so many people hadn't thought about ...
View ArticleMarion Co. Deputies Arrest Man for Child Porn
Marion County Deputies say an online investigation helped them catch a Pangburn man who was in possession of child porn.Deputies arrested fifty year old Kenneth Yarbro Wednesday after he chatted ...
View ArticleUAPB Chancellor Hosts Student Town Hall Meeting.
After the firing of four employees during a fraud investigation, University of Arkansas Pine Bluff Chancellor Lawrence Davis,jr hosted a town hall meeting. The idea was to address their concerns of ...
View ArticleCensus data track Marshallese population in Ark.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Nearly half of the 4,100 Marshallese people living in Arkansas were younger than 20 years old in 2010, according to census data released late ...
View ArticleSecond Razorback Greenway session set for tonight
Interest has turned from curiosity to hearty support for the Razorback Greenway trail project. "I've turned 180-degrees on it. I used to poo-poo it," William Kimbrough, a ...
View Article$375,000 salary for new business school dean
The new dean of the Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas will draw a $375,000 salary, according to a news release. Eli Jones, currently dean of LSU's E.J. Ourso College of ...
View ArticleHogs avoid trap, sweep BYU
Michael Woods Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS --02/29/2012-- Arkansas shortstop Tim Carver fields the ball in the second inning of Wednesday's game against BYU at Baum Stadium in ...
View ArticleOhio Students Returning to School Since Shooting
Students at Chardon High School in Ohio are expected to return today for the first time since a deadly shooting.Classes don't resume until Friday but students and their parents are invited to ...
View ArticleBuffett On Hand For Casino Groundbreaking
Jimmy Buffett comes to Verizon Arena Thursday night but Wednesday, he was in Louisiana for the groundbreaking of his new resort and casino."Parrotheads" and "Parakeets" went to ...
View ArticleBranson Businesses Assess Tornado Damage
The storm passed, but the debris remains on Highway 76 in Branson. "He said, 'it's all gone'," says Delia Brewer. "So we're like, 'Wow, okay,' so we ...
View ArticleStrawberry Season Blooming Early Thanks to Warm Winter
Strawberry season may start earlier than ever for northeast Louisiana.At Sal Petito's Strawberry Farm in Monroe, the evidence is blooming right on the vine. Owner Sal Petitio says warm winter ...
View ArticleEconomist says more Midwest industries in recovery
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- An economist who oversees a monthly economic survey of nine states in the Midwest and Plains says the economic recovery has spread to more ...
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