John Brummett
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November 21 2009
So you know that Halter has very little to do as lieutenant governor, but is a bona fide go-getter with political ambition. He’s what you call a self-starter.
LITTLE ROCK — A North Little Rock alderman resigned today after being implicated this week in the federal indictment of a Cabot man accused of attempted bid-rigging on North Little Rock city contracts.
LITTLE ROCK — Cutting the $1 million slated for school defibrillators from the state budget has apparently left an unfunded mandate, a state lawmaker said Friday.
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ unemployment rate rose five-tenths of a percentage point in October to 7.6 percent, labor statistics released today show.
21 November 2009
LITTLE ROCK — What a waste, recording the TV broadcast of Alabama-Mississippi State to get a handle on the Bulldogs’ offense.
20 November 2009
LITTLE ROCK — Deer hunting was opened Friday in a section along the lower White River by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at its meeting in Stuttgart Friday.
20 November 2009
OZARK — Officials in Ozark say the FBI has dispatched investigators to their small Arkansas town to look into last week's use of a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.
20 November 2009
As his M1 Abrams tank, nicknamed Bonecrusher, rolled through Fallujah, Iraq, Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch thought about the trail of dead insurgents left in its wake: “Fight and you die. Run and you die. Hide and you die. Hey, this works for me.”
20 November 2009
FAYETTEVILLE — A University of Arkansas fraternity chapter is under investigation after a pledge was hospitalized last week when he consumed too much alcohol at a house party.
19 November 2009
LITTLE ROCK — The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Thursday approved beer and small-farm wine permits for a Walmart Neighborhood Market and a Walmart Supercenter in Fayetteville, the first grocery stores in the city to be approved for alcohol sales.
November 21 2009
So you know that Halter has very little to do as lieutenant governor, but is a bona fide go-getter with political ambition. He’s what you call a self-starter.
November 21 2009
LITTLE ROCK — What a waste, recording the TV broadcast of Alabama-Mississippi State to get a handle on the Bulldogs’ offense.
Added on 08 May 2009
LITTLE ROCK — Jacksonville-native Kris Allen, 23, won American Idol Wednesday night following a world-record 100 million votes for the season’s finale. Nearly 40 million votes came from Arkansas alone. Allen, who is a student at the University of Central Arkansas and leads worship at New Life Church in Conway, performed three songs at the River Market amphitheater in downtown Little Rock on Friday, May 8, 2009.
