ROGERS — Looking up before gassing up is not a bad idea.

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FAYETTEVILLE — The cleanup could take months and when it’s all said and done, more than a million cubic yards of debris will be cleared from streets and yards, said Fayetteville city officials.

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FAYETTEVILLE — Students at Haas Hall Academy will move next weekend from what is affectionately called “the dairy barn” in rural Farmington to new digs in what was once a bowling alley called Power Lanes.

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FAYETTEVILLE — McDonald’s Corporation has amended a motion to dismiss a lawsuit over nude pictures that found their way to the Internet.

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FAYETTEVILLE — A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a jogger killed by a drunken driver has been settled and dismissed.

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FAYETTEVILLE — The winter weather delayed Friday the scheduled court appearances of a man charged with negligent homicide involving a crash on Interstate 540 and a man accused of shooting at a University of Arkansas fraternity house.

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The AP’s Andrew Demillo joins The Great Pay Raise Debate of ‘09 in this sharp analysis piece. Last week, lawmakers passed a 3.85 percent pay raise for state officials, which Gov. Mike Beebe duly signed into law before cleverly—and sanctimoniously—announcing that he would forego his raise. What a guy! I said here and here that it [...]

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I’m in the French Quarter with a few thousand other marathoners getting ready for tomorrow morning’s Mardi Gras Marathon. There are a dozen other Texarkana runners down here — I’ll post a picture or two here after supper.

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New Yorker critic David Denby and New York Times critic A.O. Scott discuss the recent Oscar nominations with Charlie Rose.

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I’m three days late in seeing this blog post from Steve Coll over at The New Yorker (Thumbs Up: Andrew Sullivan). He writes in response to the op-ed by David Swensen and Michael Schmidt that appeared in The New York Times. Mr. Coll observes, “It has been very painful to watch papers like the Post offer [...]

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