Lt. Gov. Bill Halter went to China. He brought back a letter.

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The cornerstone has been inscribed, and now Cedarville library staff and supporters are trying to live up to the set-in-stone deadline by moving into the new library before 2010 dawns.

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Van Buren Chamber of Commerce members received tips on how the new chamber Web site could help grow each businesses’ visibility during a training session Thursday morning at Sleep Inn.

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Van Buren Chamber of Commerce members received tips on how the new chamber Web site could help grow each businesses’ visibility during a training session Thursday morning at Sleep Inn.

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The following pleas were heard Wednesday by Judge Gary R. Cottrell in Crawford County Circuit Court:

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Three men accused of trying to break into a Mulberry service station by ramming a vehicle into its glass doors pleaded not guilty on Wednesday in Crawford County Circuit Court.

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More inside baseball played out today on a couple Senate candidate campaigns but that could have long term impacts. Earlier this morning, Communication Director for Tom Cox for Senate, Stefani Buhajla abruptly resigned, apparently over a dispute regarding some comments Cox made over the weekend. Cox downplayed the significance of this development calling me to respond [...]

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I’m in Little Rock today for some legislative business and a meeting at the State Chamber. I drove out to west Little Rock for today’s meeting of the Little Rock Touchdown Club. Coach Petrino was the speaker, and the governor also spoke. Today’s meeting drew a huge crowd — probably 650 or [...]

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State Rep. Allen Kerr wants an attorney general’s opinion on the position of state retirement systems that the names of beneficiaries and amounts powed are secret. I’ve never understood how a benefit based at least in part on public dollars could be secret. If public, the information would make personal the burgeoning controversy over double [...]

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The Carlisle Public School year kicked off Aug. 19 when students traded summertime fun for classroom studies.

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