Newton County, Arkansas

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I’m thinking we’re on the edge of full-blown hysteria about swine flu. It might be justified. I don’t have a clue. But more stories like this — about 12 "probable" cases in Benton County (that does not mean confirmed by any lab test, best I can tell) — and it won’t be long before everyone [...]

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FAYETTEVILLE — Men’s basketball coach John Pelphrey has addressed Arkansas fans in a personal way this spring, putting his signature on a two-page letter distributed to basketball season-ticket holders.

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Food King at 1101 W. 16th Ave. and Sav-U-Mor at 310 S. Blake St. will soon close, the stores’ general manager said Wednesday.

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The Pine Bluff metropolitan statistical area had an unemployment rate of 8.3 percent in March, down from 8.8 percent in February, according to data made available Wednesday by the Department of Workforce Services.

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The state Department of Education and IBM on Tuesday announced a partnership to track funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

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Today’s Commercial features the Unity, Growth, Progress edition with stories and photographs on a variety of projects in Pine Bluff and Southeast Arkansas.

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WOODLAWN — One person was killed and another injured Tuesday in a two-vehicle accident two miles north of Woodlawn in Cleveland County.

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A customer at a convenience store on the west side of Pine Bluff apparently frightened a man trying to drive away from the store after robbing it by firing shots in the air, causing the unknown man to abandon his vehicle and flee on foot Tuesday.

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Police vice and narcotics officers found more than 20 grams of marijuana Tuesday after serving a search warrant on a car in the 3400 block of Old Warren Road.

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