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Two companies plan to build new plants at Chaffee Crossing and another is moving its corporate headquarters to Fort Smith, officials announced Monday.

Monday brought three different groundbreakings at Fort Chaffee, all conducted by industrial companies planning large developments on that site.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "When he started outgrowing the house, we thought he was going a bit nuts." Erin Bogle, daughter of David Bogle, who created the Museum of Native American Artifacts, which opened Thursday, to ...

Three people were killed in accidents around the state Friday. Taylor C. Phelps, 15, of Charleston was killed in Fort Smith while trying to cross Rogers Avenue, which is also Arkansas 22, according to Arkansas ...

The Arkansas State Police has agreed to a $250,000 settlement with the relatives of a 20-year-old pregnant woman from Barling who was killed in a crash during a high-speed police chase.

City officials are reviewing the resumes of 38 people who are seeking the Fort Smith city administrator job.

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We've had over 100 drownings on Beaver Lake. We've yet to have anyone drown who was wearing a life jacket." Alan Bland, Army Corps of Engineers park ranger Article, 1 B Looking ahead Volunteer ...

Two Oklahoma men are in jail after a traffic stop linked them to the burglary of a Charleston, Ark., pharmacy. via KHBS

“She's 96 years old and still gets up to serve us at the polling place. She wants to wait on us. She's very active”

Alice Buckley of Barling has been a volunteer poll worker for more than 40 years _ more than half of them in Sebastian County.

'I'm 96 next month. My lady friend, she's in her 80s, says when she grows up, she wants to be like me,' Buckley said, laughing.

Buckley's joy in life makes everyone fall in love with her, said Marguritte Ward, a Barling polling place judge. Ward said she's known Buckley for years.

'She's got such an expression on her face when she talks about winning a beauty pageant. ... You get that smile and the mischievous look on her face no matter what,' Ward said. Read more

“When it's completed this intersection will be a 4 way intersection”

Get ready to stop on your way to work if you're driving near the intersection of Highways 22 and 59 in Barling. via KFSM-TV Fort Smith

“February is the peak month and that's definitely what we're seeing this year. What we don't know is how high the peak is going to go.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY "February is the peak month and that's definitely what we're seeing this year. via Herald-Leader

“Less was known about the celestial motions and the mechanics of the solar system”

Cloudy skies threaten to block the view of stargazers Wednesday night as they crane their necks for a peek of a copperyred moon during the last lunar eclipse until December 2010. via Herald-Leader

QUOTE OF THE DAY "It will give us a full understanding of our congestion." Jessie Jones, an Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department planning engineer, on a traffic study planned for Northwest Arkansas ... via Herald-Leader

“I just don't see how we can do it”

TIMES RECORD STAFF The Fort Smith Transit's single stop in Barling could be eliminated at the end of February. via Times Record

“We have had leprosy in Arkansas since forever. Some people get the idea that leprosy just came with the Marshallese. That's not true.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY "We have had leprosy in Arkansas since forever. Some people get the idea that leprosy just came with the Marshallese. via Herald-Leader

News Thursday, Feb 7, 2008 Beebe declares 10 counties disaster areas following deadly twisters By John Lyon LITTLE ROCK - Gov. via Arkansas News Bureau

A repeat drunken driving offender whose sentence was commuted by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has pleaded guilty to his second drunken driving charge since being paroled during Huckabee's ... via FOX16.com

“We've had experience with that, so it is just a matter of time and attention”

TIMES RECORD * MCRIDER@SWTIMES.COM County Judge David Hudson and Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority Executive Director Ivy Owen both labeled as productive a state-local-federal coordination meeting Monday for ... via Times Record

“Right now I'd say it be about as far as water equivalent between one-tenth and a one-fourth in precipitation at this point. It wouldn't be a huge amount, but still it would be better than nothing.”

TIMES RECORD * WFREEMAN@SWTIMES.COM In the end, falling temperatures, calming winds and carefully deployed bulldozers helped firefighters contain a conflagration that whipped across Chaffee Crossing Tuesday. via Times Record