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(Thursday, June 18, 2009)
The $324,000-a-year salary for the Arkansas lottery’s executive director is the third-largest compensation package for chief executives of the nation’s 44 lotteries. » Read story.
(Thursday, June 18, 2009)
The $324,000-a-year salary for the Arkansas lottery’s executive director is the third-largest compensation package for chief executives of the nation’s 44 lotteries. » Read story.
By Cathy Frye
(Wednesday, May 13, 2009)
ATKINS — Five months after a tornado hurled her 200 feet from her home, Doris Vieira informed her family that she had thwarted death long enough. » Read story.
Claim mirrors Kentucky case going to U.S. Supreme Court
by john lynch arkansas democrat-gazette
(Tuesday, May 12, 2009)
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutionality of how municipal bonds are taxed in Kentucky, a Little Rock man claims Arkansas’ system for taxing interest from those bonds is also constitutionally flawed by illegally favoring local bonds. » Read story.
By Douglas E. Abrams
(Wednesday, June 18, 2008)
Thirteen Arkansas high school seniors are among 1,600 high school students nationally to be named semifinalists in the National Achievement Scholarship Program for outstanding black students. » Read story.
She stumbles on Mexican word ‘huapango'
(Tuesday, June 3, 2008)
WASHINGTON - Samia Nawaz breezed through the first three words in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Friday but tripped up on “huapango” - a style of Mexican music and dance - and finished tied for fourth. » Read story.
She stumbles on Mexican word ‘huapango
By Alex Daniels
(Tuesday, June 3, 2008)
WASHINGTON - Samia Nawaz breezed through the first three words in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Friday but tripped up on “huapango” - a style of Mexican music and dance - and finished seventh. » Read story.
by jim brooks arkansas democrat-gazette
(Tuesday, April 8, 2008)
The state Court of Appeals overturned a Pulaski County rape conviction and ordered the case sent back to court after finding that a judge improperly allowed hearsay testimony during the July 2006 trial that ended in the conviction of John Seely. » Read story.
by michelle hillen arkansas democrat-gazette
(Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007)
The four missing crew members of a charter boat found drifting and abandoned Sunday in the Florida Straits were shot and killed by hijackers and their bodies thrown overboard, according to one surviving passenger whose account was outlined in an arrest affidavit filed Wednesday in federal court. » Read story.
By Andy Davis
(Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007)
Police were searching Wednesday for a man accused of fatally shooting two men and wounding a third outside a Jacksonville motel late Tuesday. » Read story.
Machine to be among fastest at all U.S. colleges
By The Associated Press
(Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007)
The National Science Foundation has awarded an $800,000 grant for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville to buy and assemble the state’s second supercomputer. » Read story.
2 dead, 1 injured in shooting at motel
By ArkansasOnline
(Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007)
Authorities are searching for a man accused of shooting two men to death and wounding a third at a Jacksonville motel late Tuesday night. » Read story.
Like NLR, city will pay Faulkner County’s lockup to house nonviolent offenders
By Matthew S.L. Cate
(Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007)
Little Rock will begin to send some criminal suspects to Faulkner County under a deal announced Tuesday. » Read story.
News outlets say restrictions on photos unconstitutional
By Cathy Frye, Brandon Tubbs
(Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007)
Arkansas news organizations are questioning a decision by the Arkansas Activities Association to restrict photographers’ access to postseason sporting events in order to retain control over the sale of pictures and video. » Read story.
By The Associated Press
(Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007)
Little Rock zookeepers announced the birth of three vampire bats. » Read story.
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