Governor Mike Beebe recently signed House Bill 1842 into law, which creates special “Gold Star Family” license plates for the parents and spouses of service members killed while serving in our nation’s Armed Forces. It is an honorable way to pay tribute to the families of our state and our nation’s fallen heroes.

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LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe will not sign a bill on his desk that would add fees to wholesale milk sales, a spokesman said Monday.

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Sessions Help Keep Kids Safe Two upcoming Healthy Woman events will focus on “Keeping Your Little Athlete Safe.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — The excitement of March Madness inevitably provokes the debate: Just how much slacking is OK on the job?

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Special To The Morning News I never thought that I would join one of the popular social-networking Web sites, like Facebook. In my case, I had to join. I was losing touch with my daughters, ages 20 and 24, who are at universities far from home. Another dad — a friend who frequents Facebook — [...]

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Like ballet, there are names for the “dance steps” performed by the “World Famous” Lipizzaner Stallions.

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An open line.

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A couple of weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of watching Will Ferrell’s one-man Broadway show, You’re Welcome, America: A Final Night with George W. Bush. It was absolutely wonderful. Delightfully and unexpectedly raunchy, Ferrell retired his beloved caricature by unloading every bad thought or misstep that one who hated Bush as sincerely as Ferrell [...]

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The Citizens First Congress tells me that last week’s word on the death of a proposed ethics bill was no longer operative. There will be another try tomorrow to make it impermissible — with small financial penalties for violations – for a member of a state board or commission to knowingly vote on an issue in which [...]

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SPRINGDALE — One of the nation’s largest beef packers, Cargill Meat Solutions Inc., announced Monday that it has begun implementing a third-party, round-the-clock video auditing program at its U.S. beef slaughter plants to promote animal welfare.

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