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Soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard’s 39th Infantry Brigade begin returning home from Iraq Tuesday night, signaling the end of the unit’s second deployment to Iraq.
Arkansas’ unemployment rate in October rose a half-percentage point to 5.4 percent compared with September, still well below the national average, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.
A custody hearing for 20 children taken from parents who attend the Tony Alamo operation likely will draw lawyers from across Arkansas into a Miller County courtroom today.
Raising the speed limit to 65 mph on state highways would increase fatal accidents and fuel consumption, according to a study presented to legislators Friday recommending leaving the speed limit at 55 mph.
Arkansas and Alabama are the only states that still require annual rabies vaccinations for dogs and cats, but that could change in the 2009 session.
The Fayetteville campus of the University of Arkansas needs more than $200 million worth of infrastructure improvements, Chancellor David Gearhart told university trustees Friday.
Voters in two of Arkansas’ largest cities, Pine Bluff and Jonesboro, will elect mayors Tuesday after votes in the general election forced runoffs. Tomorrow is election day statewide for all the runoffs.
A clinical psychologist testified in Criaghead Circuit Court that Jessie Miskelly, convicted in the 1993 killings of three West Memphis children, was not competent to stand trial. Miskellly contends that he did not have effective counsel at his first trial and deserves another trial.
The Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission cited Circuit Judge L.T. Simes of Helena-West Helena for failing to perform his duties as judge while hearing a lawsuit alleging irregularities and voter fraud in St. Francis County in a 2006 election involving state Sen. Jack Crumbly of Widener.
Little Rock Circuit Judge Mary McGowan was reprimanded by the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commisisons for failure to act in a timely fashion on several cases, for failure to make required reports to the state Supreme Court on cases pending more than 90 days, and for lapses in demeanor — a failure to be courteous and patient with people on court.
The University of Central Arkansas Emergency Notification Committee has been given until 10 a.m. today to present interim UCA president Tom Courtway with a report for a campus emergency notification system. A campu-wide test is expected before the end of this term.
Mike Duke to succeed Lee Scott at Wal Mart as president and CEO effective Feb. 1.
A disabled man who had run-ins with a small-town Arkansas police chief ended up being saved by the same lawman. Kibler Police Chief Roger Green pulled James Katzfey out of his home after smoke inhalation left the man unconscious in his wheelchair Friday afternoon.
A Mc-Donald’s restaurant in Fayetteville and others face a lawsuit after employees allegedly posted nude photographs on the Internet off a cellular phone lost there.
Arkansas State kept its composure and put Florida Atlantic away to stay in the hunt for the Sun Belt Conference title and a bowl bid with a 28-14 victory Saturday afternoon at ASU Stadium. Mississippi State snaped a 9-game losing streak beating Arkansas 31-28.
Nolan Richardson is the newest member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Jeff Long and Frank Broyles were among Arkansans to make the trip to Kansas City for the ceremony.
Dillard’s is cutting about 500 employees in a “strategic staff reduction.” About 60 of the workers are in Little Rock.
A strucutural analysis of roofs in two Pulaski County Special School District schools is now complete. Work at Crystal Hills and Clinton Elementary will take four to six weeks.
Kerry Rendall Wilson is facing 24 years in prison, half the possible maximum, for killing a North Little Rock mother of four, Henrietta Jones. Wilson , who was braiding his hair at the time. Wilson will be eligible for parole in six years.
Join me and Bill Vickery for the WEDNESDAY WAKE-UP around 6:45 every Wednesday morning on KARK TV Channel 4. We pick winners and losers from the past week and comment on the day's top news. Sometimes we play rough, but it is always a million laughs.
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