Fifth Man Arrested In Shooting
BEND, Ore. - Health officials have confirmed that an Oregon man has the plague after he was bitten while trying to take a dead rodent from the mouth of a stray ...
View ArticleCaddies Tote Clubs Offer Insight
David Frank Dempsey STAFF PHOTO DAVID FRANK DEMPSEY Benito Olguin caddies for Kathleen Ekey on the practice course in preparation for the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship at Pinnacle Country Club ...
View ArticleCouncil Approves Automated Meters
The City Council approved a $6.66 million contract with Mueller Systems to design and install automated meters for the city's water and sewer customers at its meeting Tuesday ...
View ArticleCouncil Approves Downtown Study Money
The Downtown Alliance has asked for $33,000 each from the Springdale Advertising and Promotion Commission and the Springdale Public Facilities ...
View ArticleHendrix College Employee Arrested for Rape
Arrested Ward Police Officer Now Has New Job Michelle Scroggins, a former detective for the Ward Police Department, now works for the city's water ...
View ArticleUA Brings Jane Goodall to Campus for Distinguished Lecture Series
The University of Arkansas announced Tuesday that Jane Goodall will speak as part of the distinguished lecture series and the 10th birthday of the honors college. Goodall is a primatologist and a ...
View ArticleUpdate Texarkana Voters Approve Street Bridge Ballot Initiatives
9:50 p.m. Update: Texarkana, Arkansas voters have reportedly passed a bond aimed at fixing roads across the city. In a special election held Tuesday, voters approved of refinancing an existing ...
View ArticleAppeal Could Freeze Seasonal Shaved Ice Stand
Samantha Baker STAFF PHOTO SAMANTHA BAKER Cortine Parson, right, helps Cailyn Parson, 2, with her strawberry ice cream Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at Maggie Moo's in Fayetteville. On July 3, the ...
View ArticleEmery Announces Council Bid
Courtesy Photo Mike Emery Mike Emery, who mans the control booth at television station KNWA, signaled Monday he plans to join the Ward 4 City Council ...
View ArticleVoters Turn Down Millage
Least we have over 5500 educated voters in this district that saw through this charade. Come back without 10s of millions in athletics and a better handle on the facilities and you might have a ...
View ArticleQuorum Court Votes to Fund Additional Staff for Jail Beds but Put Payout On Hold
"Public safety, as you all know, how important it is to the citizens," he said, addressing the elected officials in the Quorum Court meeting room Tuesday night. Pulaski County businessman ...
View ArticleLR Board Proposes Millage Tax Election for Public Works Projects
The City of Little Rock is discussing a proposal for a special millage decrease that could impact bumpy roads and overgrown ditches across the city. Right now the city relies on a millage tax that ...
View ArticleHuman Trafficking in Arkansas
illegal immigration was not the main focus, human trafficking is one of the many results of the refusal to enforce immigration law. Several topics were discussed. A lot of the conference was about ...
View ArticleConvicted Pine Bluff Murderer to Spend Decades in Prison
A Pine Bluff man received 50 years in prison for his role in the July 2011 murder of Brian Smith, according to the Pine Bluff Commercial. Police say Tony Boykins shot Smith during an altercation in ...
View ArticleGoodall to speak at UA on Oct. 5
McDONALD COUNTY - A 36-year-old Rogers, Ark., man was arrested at about 5 a.m. Monday after a manhunt by several law enforcement ocers from the McDonald County Sheriff's Department and the ...
View ArticleGas firms misleading public Nelson asserts
Sheffield Nelson asked the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to investigate an Exxon Mobil subsidiary and Southwestern Energy, alleging that they have misled the public and their ...
View Article‘Fake beard bandit’ gets 11 years for bank heists
A Tulsa man whom investigators called the "fake beard bandit" was sentenced in federal court Tuesday to 11 years, 3 months, in prison after he pleaded guilty to eight bank robberies and one ...
View Article7-year statute labeled as weak
Arkansas' 7-year-old human-trafficking law is weak and no one has ever been prosecuted under it, an assistant attorney general and several anti-trafficking groups said ...
View ArticleNew blood test OK’d by state for tuberculosis
Arkansas' public health agency is changing the way it tests for tuberculosis come Sunday, switching from a TB skin test that produces too many false-positive results and unnecessary ...
View ArticleDeployed PB native dies on duty in Afghanistan
Sgt. Michael Strachota was killed in Afghanistan over the weekend while on his last mission before he was to come home on leave to celebrate his son's third ...
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