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The Interpretation Plan for how historic WashingtonState park will be represented and communicated to visitors was presented Tuesday night at the 1914 School in Washington, Ark., the former state capitol.

A tug-of-war usually lasts a couple of minutes, but the struggle over the county seat in Hempstead County lasted sixty years.

The two men are brothers-in-law, and have lived on adjoining farms for several years.

Washington D.C. Bureau Today's News Washington Digest: Senate approves war funding WASHINGTON - The Senate ignored a White House veto warning and approved an Iraq war spending bill last week that also included ...

An 82-year-old Washington, Ark., man was killed and two others were injured in a two-vehicle accident Saturday afternoon in Hope, Ark., according to Arkansas State Police reports. via Texarkana Gazette

The knife show and auction will be open to the public beginning at 1 p.m. today, free of charge. via Asheville Citizen-Times

Hundreds of tables of handmade custom knives filled the Robinson Center on Saturday. via KTHV-TV Little Rock

Robert W. Barnes has compiled an interesting new book titled "Missing Relatives and Lost Friends." This data was abstracted from newspaper advertisements looking for missing relatives and lost friends from ... via The Lufkin Daily News

Can you smell the wood smoke or the coffee brewing on the open fire? Can you hear the horses' hooves clop-clop-clopping down the streets? If you can, you are at the Five Trails Rendezvous at Historic Washington ... via Online Hope Star

The National Association of State Fire Marshals is trying to ban novelty cigarette lighters across the country. via KCRG

Washington D.C. Bureau Today's News Washington Digest: House approves stimulus package WASHINGTON - The House voted 385-35 last week for a $146 billion economic stimulus bill that would give checks of $600 to ... via Arkansas News Bureau

Washington D.C. Bureau Today's News Marshals museum gets no federal funds this year WASHINGTON - The proposed U.S. Marshals Service Museum in Fort Smith was shut out of federal money this year, a victim of ... via Arkansas News Bureau

By GRACE LEONHART, Hope Star Community Editor Published: Monday, December 3, 2007 7:51 PM CST Visitors to the town of Washington on Saturday, December 8, will be met with thousands of luminaries shimmering in ... via Online Hope Star

Issue date: 11/19/07 Section: Opinion I went and voted. Other voters who turned out at the polls on Nov. via NetXNews

“These research results are important information for policy-makers.”

Large-scale fires in western and southeastern states can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the states' entire motor vehicle traffic in a year, according to newly published ... via Science Blog

“A striking implication of very large wildfires is that a severe fire season lasting only one or two months can release as much carbon as the annual emissions from the entire transportation or energy sector of an individual state”

California wildfires pumped nearly 8 million metric tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in just a week, about one-quarter as much as fossil fuels do in that state in a month, scientists ... via Environmental News Network

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the expansion Wednesday of a nationwide recall of Soy Deli and Quong Hop brand tofu. via Earth Times

“The top income tax rate here is 7%, so taking away that preference would hurt states like California, with much higher rates on local and state income taxes, more than it would Arkansas”

Washington Arkansas Man Sues Over State's Muni Taxing A Little Rock resident has filed suit against Arkansas challenging the state's preferential taxing practices for municipal bonds sold by in-state issuers. via The Bond Buyer