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Flames engulf house near North Little Rock

No one was injured in a fire that destroyed a house outside North Little Rock on Friday morning. Oak Grove Fire Department Chief Randy Pogue said the residence at 7508 Reed Road appeared to be abandoned and no one was inside when crews arrived about 6:45 a.m., finding half of th...

U.S. OKs state’s health-exchange partnership plan

Arkansas’ plan to partner with the federal government on its insurance exchange received a green light Thursday from the federal g...

U.S. payrolls climb 155,000 in December; jobless rate still ...

Employers added workers in December at about the same pace as the previous month, and the unemployment rate matched a four-year lo...

Cable-service loss still felt in LR region

Now that power has been all but restored in the wake of the Christmas Day snowstorm, area residents are directing their ire at ano...
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Kent State discovers it’s hard to beat Keith

Spencer Keith has been the starting quarterback at Kent State for so long it seems like he should have ...

PHILIP MARTIN

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Favorite people’s favorite movies

For the past decade or so, I’ve asked a few friends who have a particular interest in the movies ...

RICHARD DAVENPORT

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Collins gets All-Star push

Fayetteville quarterback Austin Allen, an Arkansas commitment, has had a good week of preparation for today’s Semper Fidelis All-American ...

Trojans roll past Toppers

UALR’s men’s basketball team picked up a muchneeded victory against an unlikely opponent.

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LR’s Skippy plant in sale to Hormel for $700 million

Hormel Foods, which makes Spam and other cured, smoked and delicatessen meats, said Thursday that it has agreed to buy Unilever’s Skippy peanut butter division for $700 million.

Fracking fracture

I am not one of those critics who routinely supply quotes for movie publicists for advertising purposes. But I also have a problem disappointing people, so if a publicist asks me for my opinion of a film I don’t generally tell them they’ll have to wait for my published review.

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Not Fade Away: A sloppy Valentine to misspent youth

Not Fade Away Grade: 85 Cast: John Magaro, Jack Huston, Dominique McElligott, James Gandolfini, Will Brill Director: David Chase ...

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Of the four most often mentioned coaches to take over the Arkansas Razorbacks football program, three won bowl games. ...

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Asa’s fateful words: volunteer, armed, schools

The man who probably — tragically — is going to be our governor after Mike Beebe has been propped ...

County asphalt-theft case assigned to Maggio’s court

The theft of-property case of Faulkner County Administrator Jeff Johnston has been assigned to Circuit Judge Michael Maggio.

Google settles FTC’s patent, search probe

Google is pledging to license hundreds of key patents to mobile computing rivals under more reasonable terms and to curb the use of snippets from other websites in Internet search results in a settlement that ends a highprofile antitrust investigation.

Fracking fracture

I am not one of those critics who routinely supply quotes for movie publicists for advertising purposes. But I also have a problem disappointing people, so if a publicist asks me for my opinion of a film I don’t generally tell them they’ll have to wait for my published review.

Obama 1st since 1956 to top 51% twice

Eight weeks after the Nov. 6 presidential election, a revised vote count in New York shows that Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the vote twice.

Steve Bryles was like that

WE CAN’T confirm the story that Steve Bryles held a placard begging KIPP’s top brass to put a KIPP school in Blytheville all those years ago. We can confirm that he went to San Francisco to KIPP’s national headquarters to get its attention. And did. Because eventually he got the school he wanted in his town.

Trojans roll past Toppers

UALR’s men’s basketball team picked up a muchneeded victory against an unlikely opponent.

US economy adds 155K jobs, rate stays at 7.8 pct.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during the tense negotiations to resolve the fiscal cliff.

This Week in the Civil War

This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Jan. 6: Fighting in Arkansas.

Berlin elephants feast on tasty Christmas trees

BERLIN (AP) — Elephants at the Berlin Zoo finally got a chance to tuck into their Christmas dinner: A feast of donated pine trees.

US economy adds 155K jobs, rate stays at 7.8 pct.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers added 155,000 jobs in December, a steady gain that shows hiring held up during the tense negotiations to resolve the fiscal cliff.

Congress to vote on Superstorm Sandy flood aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — At last, the storm-racked Northeast is getting a House floor vote on billions in disaster relief aid for victims of October's Superstorm Sandy, but only after a host of East Coast Republican lawmakers threatened a near mutiny against GOP Speaker John Boehner.

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