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57 min ago | Arkansas Times

Sunday morning: IRS, Kochs and movies

Not much new to report this morning. If all goes well, I'm going to catch at least three movies today at the Little Rock Film Festival .

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Tim Griffin, Mark Pryor, US Senate, Democrat, Prison, Mayflower, AR

5 hrs ago | Arkansas Online

NPCC 1 of 7 schools to assist state, train health care guides

At the last minute, the 2013 session of the Arkansas Legislature created the Health Insurance Marketplace, a private insurance option for expanding government-subsidized health care coverage to more than 250,000 additional Arkansas residents.

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Related Topix: Arkansas Government, Health Insurance, Health

9 hrs ago | The Courier

Sister lakes were milestones

Nimrod Dam was a subject of amazement for Arkansans when it was completed 71 years ago, forming Lake Nimrod in western Perry and eastern Yell counties.

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Related Topix: Perry, AR, Arkansas Government, US News, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Blue Mountain, AR

11 hrs ago | ArkansasMatters

With $600M On The Line For Powerball Drawing, Folks Can't Help But Dream

At $600 million, Saturday's drawing was the largest Powerball jackpot ever and the second largest lottery total in US history.

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Related Topix: Lottery

15 hrs ago | ArkansasMatters

Little Rock Police Looking For Armed Robber

Workers at the Shoe Carnival, at 12801 Chenal Parkway, were getting ready to open this morning when a six foot, medium built man with tattoos walked into the store and robbed it.

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18 hrs ago | WMC-TV Memphis

Body of young woman found in Lawrence County

The Lawrence County Sheriff's Department says the body of a young woman has been found in the Black River but her name is not yet known.

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Related Topix: Suicide

Sat May 18, 2013

Log Cabin Democrat

Adult GED students receive diplomas

More than 80 students with the Conway Adult Education Center's 2013 graduating class received diplomas Saturday night during commencement exercises at the James H. Clark Auditorium on the campus of Conway High School.

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Related Topix: University of Arkansas, Prison

ArkansasBusiness.com

State Treasurer Martha Shoffner Arrested for Extortion by FBI

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

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Related Topix: US Federal Bureau of Investigation, US News, Financial Markets

Arkansas Times

Practicing law with Bro. Rapert

Sen. Jason Rapert, author of the patently unconstitutional bill to ban most abortions in Arkansas at the 12th week of pregnancy, took heart yesterday at Judge Susan Webber Wright's indication that she was inclined to uphold the part of the law that requires women seeking an abortion in the 12th week of pregnancy or later to have an ultrasound and ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Politics, Mark Pryor, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Arkansas Government, ACLU

The Oregonian

After 50 years, a retirement from Southwest Portland's Racquet Club

After taking a hard look at life in his tiny segregated Southern town, Robert Smith left home at 19 -- a man on a journey using only his heart as a compass.

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Related Topix: Wedding, African-American

Arkansas Times

Video blogger Joseph Birdsong teaches you about Arkansas

Arkansas is full of talented people, and we ran across yet another one of them last night: the thoroughly-hilarious writer and video blogger Joseph Birdsong.

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Related Topix: Blog News

The Courier

Nuts and bolts of firefighter training

U.S. Forest Service fire fighter Bradley Taylor explains the various specialty components and attack methods when using a Type 6 engine truck to attendees of this year's ninth annual Arkansas River Valley Fire Academy.

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Related Topix: Fire, Weather, Arkansas Tech University

ArkansasMatters

Arkansans Participate in 'Bike to Work Day'

Several Arkansans pedaled to work on Friday in an effort to help improve air quality.

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ArkansasMatters

Arkansas Natives Bring New Film to Little Rock Film Festival

Shane Bitney Crone never expected to be in Arkansas at the Little Rock Film Festival promoting a film about his life.

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USA Today

Judge grants injunction in Ark. abortion ban case

An Arkansas law banning most abortions 12 weeks into a woman's pregnancy won't take effect while a legal challenge is pending, a federal judge ruled Friday.

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Related Topix: Abortion, Little Rock, AR, Mike Beebe, US Governors, US News, US Supreme Court

Fri May 17, 2013

Arkansas Times

Women's rights in court this morning

Leslie Newell Peacock will be in federal court for us this morning for the preliminary injunction hearing on the lawsuit challenging the new state law prohibiting most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, US News, US Supreme Court, Abortion, US Politics, Mark Pryor, US Senate, Mike Ross, US House of Representatives, Democrat

ArkansasMatters

Web Extra: Arkansas Crappie Fishing Lauded by Fishhound.com

If you can believe a fisherman then here's a tale for you. We'll call them crappie in this story but they're known by many different names in Arkansas and southern Missouri: paper mouths, sacalait, slabs, specks and the large ones are called netters, the medium ones lifters and the small ones are called tater chips.

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Related Topix: Dardanelle, AR

ArkansasMatters

Man Accused of Hoarding Reluctantly Surrenders 23 Dogs to Humane Society

Investigators in Southwest Arkansas say they are facing one of the worst animal hoarding cases they've seen.

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KARD

Arkansas House Speaker Carter Not Entering 2014 Governor's Race

The Arkansas House Speaker is not entering the 2014 Arkansas governor's race. That's according to Talk Business, which reports Rep.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Mike Ross, US House of Representatives, Democrat

Arkansas Times

Davy Carter: 'I don't know if the Republican party in a...

House Speaker Davy Carter is not running for governor, which took a significant amount of sizzle out of his speech at the Political Animals Club today .

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Related Topix: Best of 2007, Mike Beebe, US Governors

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