Cameras at traffic lights go forward
A bill allowing the state’s largest cities to use cameras to catch motorists running red lights cleared an Arkansas House committee Friday.
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Pickup, rig crash fatal to firefighter A Pine Bluff firefighter died early Thursday when his vehicle lost traction on a wet highway, according to a preliminary Arkansas State Police accident report.
View ArticleExxon Mobil says all 10 offers to return spurned by residents
Cleanup crews on guard for cottonmouths and other snakes made progress Friday in removing oil that had flowed into a marsh along Interstate 40, two weeks after an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured in a...
View ArticleTeacher collapses at school, later dies
A teacher at Darby Junior High School collapsed at the school Friday morning and later died in a Fort Smith hospital, according to school district Deputy Superintendent Gordon Floyd.
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Comedy pioneer, Emmy-winner Winters Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He...
View ArticleStudent, 23, faces charge over Tweet
A University of Arkansas at Fayetteville architecture student was arrested on a felony terroristic-threatening count Friday afternoon over allegations that he Tweeted an alarming message to his peers,...
View ArticleMom arrested in sex-abuse case for giving girl phone
Jonesboro police on Friday arrested the mother of a 12-year-old Jonesboro girl whom authorities said had been sexually abused by several adults and four youths numerous times, saying the mother...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “When we do these public meetings, swimming pool and community center are always the two at the top of the list.Those are the two things that almost everybody mentions.There’s not even...
View ArticleCenterton To Host Events Today
The city will host the Main Street Outdoor Market today.
View ArticleEducators: Arts Have Impact On Classroom Performance
Students and teachers said participation in the arts positively impacts classroom performance.
View ArticleProgram Gets Veterans Fishing
Army veteran Chad Rozanski wanted the same thing as the Walmart FLW Tour anglers fishing near him Friday at Beaver Lake.
View ArticleStaff, Students Debate Gun Issue
Students, faculty and staff engaged in a lively debate Friday over whether NorthWest Arkansas Community College employees should be allowed to carry concealed firearms on campus.
View ArticleLittle college finds it needs big money
Oren Paris III, president of Ecclesia College in Springdale, isn’t boastful of his fundraising abilities. He’ll be the first to say that it’s a learning process he feels he’s only just begun.
View ArticleUA tackles questions over online teaching
Ro Di Brezzo can relate to the concerns faculty at the University of Arkansas’ flagship campus have about a proposed online program expansion.
View ArticleRegion’s cattle growers taking stock after dry ’12
This year is make or break for lifelong Adair County, Okla., cattle farmer David Guthrie.
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BENTON COUNTY The following divorces were recorded in the circuit clerk’s office from April 4-10.
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Veteran foreign correspondent For nearly three decades, George McArthur was the quintessential foreign correspondent as he reported from the boulevards of Paris to the sands of the Middle East and...
View Article2 hospitals expect to miss April target
Leaders of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and St. Vincent Health System do not expect to determine by their original April deadline if the two hospitals should agree to combining some...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’m not about to fight it another year, not with the numbers I’m running.” David Guthrie, Adair County, Okla., cattle farmer, on the dwindling feed supply caused by a drought in the...
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