Education Notebook
School board OKs settlement The North Little Rock School Board voted 6-0 last week to an $87,500 settlement of costs to the monitors of the district’s desegregation efforts in past years.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “They figured they could sell a $5 print before they could sell a $100 painting.” Tom Young, librarian and assistant registrar at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, on artists’...
View ArticleEx-Huckabee backer in 2008 race indicted
WA S H I N GTO N — A Florida supporter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s failed 2008 presidential bid has been indicted on federal campaignfinance charges, according to a document that was...
View ArticleParole Board OK with commutation
For at least the 16th time, the Arkansas Parole Board has recommended shortening the life sentence of Shirley Danner, a former prostitute who fatally shot a man in West Memphis and later became the...
View ArticleMan sentenced in child’s rape
A Sherwood man was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for repeatedly raping a 9-year-old girl over a four-year period.
View ArticleNestle’s Jonesboro plant to eliminate 70 jobs
Nestle USA officials told employees Friday at the firm’s Jonesboro facility that operations will be curtailed and 70 full-time positions eliminated.
View ArticleLiterary festival draws poets, novelists, eroticist
Richard Ford and Kevin Brockmeier, novelists with Little Rock connections, will join Oprah Winfrey’s literary darling Ayana Mathis, erotica author Sylvia Day and poet C.D. Wright as “headliners” for...
View ArticleRECORDS: January 27
Benton County Sheriff’s Office -Ryan Dwayne Yant, 35, of 1104 N.E. 3rd St. in Bentonville was arrested on Friday in connection with possession of drug paraphernalia and revoke or suspended sentence or...
View ArticlePUBLIC MEETINGS: January 27
Monday 3 p.m. Fayetteville Town and Gown Advisory Committee — AT&T Conference Room, Genesis Technology Incubator, 700 Research Center Blvd.
View ArticleBIRTHS: January 27
Jenny and Matt Sims of Springdale, a girl, Stellaluna Sky Sims, born Jan. 2, 2013, at Willow Creek Women’s Hospital in Johnson.
View ArticleBuilder Eyes Abshier Heights Property
A developer is trying to give one of Fayetteville’s bald spots a combover.
View ArticleHealth Reform Pushing Premiums Higher
The Legislature will decide if the state extends Medicaid to 250,000 uninsured Arkansans.
View ArticleSpring Creek Park Plan Nearing Completion
Downtown creekside parks are moving closer to reality.
View ArticleSoftball Tournament Plays in New Complex
The parking lot of the new Regional Sports Park complex was full by midday Saturday, except for a row of parking spots hugging the outfield fences of the four softball/baseball diamonds.
View ArticleReported Road Rage Leads to Arrests
Police arrested two men who reportedly pulled a knife on a pair of high school students during a road rage incident Friday afternoon.
View ArticlePolice Seize Pot, Pills
An undercover investigation led police to nearly 2 pounds of marijuana, 200 pills and $4,825 on Friday.
View ArticlePolice Link Man to Armed Robbery
A Lincoln man faces felony charges after he reportedly robbed another man at knifepoint on East Rogers Street in Lincoln earlier this week.
View ArticlePolicy Forces Cancellation of Outside After-School Programs
Hundreds of girls enrolled in an after-school program may end up using outside facilities or waiting until 5:30 p.m. to meet because of new, strict enforcement of a district policy regarding facility use.
View ArticlePrevailing Wage Repeal Will Pass, Senator Predicts
A bill to do away with the state’s “prevailing wage” requirement on public works projects will pass, Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, assured the audience at a forum of local lawmakers Saturday.
View ArticleMentors help teens reach their dreams
Leslie Silva, a senior at Har-Ber High School, found encouragement to pursue her dream of attending college, despite challenges that come with being a teen mother and the first in her family to aspire...
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