FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact Patricia Minor at 877.264.2826 or patricia.minor@arkansas.gov WORLD AIDS DAY AWARENESS AND EVENTS SLATED FOR DECEMBER 1 World AIDS Day will be commemorated on December 1 with a variety of awareness and testing events scheduled, the Arkansas Minority Health Commission’s (AMHC) HIV/AIDS Prevention Coalition has announced. The Coaliti…

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Blogging machine Jason Tolbert has a good post over at The Tolbert Report touching on Republican Senate hopeful Conrad Reynolds’ plans for financing his 2010 campaign. Reynolds, like many of the Republican hopefuls, has been slow off the mark in raising money for the race. As of the last reporting period, Reynolds had some $43,000 [...]

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…is the air escaping from the rapidly deflating balloon of Mike Huckabee’s future political aspirations. Post from: The Arkansas Project

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The Atlantic rounds up what no doubt will be a growing list of commentaries on Mike Huckabee’s role in commuting the lengthy prison sentence of Maurice Clemmons, a suspect in four police slayings Sunday in Washington. It’s mixed. Some sympathy; some criticism. The early going is marked by confusion. The Atlantic says a parole board had to [...]

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Jason Craven of Cabot has for the past several years had a spectacular Christmas show of lights and music. This year he has volunteered to ask spectators to donate to Open Arms Shelter during the display.

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The opening of the construction bids for the new Lonoke County jail located in Lonoke behind the hotels will happen on Dec. 8 at 10 a.m. in the CSEPP Emergency Conference Room.

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This week’s garbage schedule will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday on scheduled service days. Thursday there will be no service in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Answering to the question of “When Is the Right Time to Honor Our Military Heroes?” meant more than $5,000 in awards to the 60-plus Cabot students in the annual Patriot’s Pen essay contest sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. District Commander Don Reynolds and Jacksonville Post 4548 Commander Ashley Little on Monday visited Cabot’s [...]

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Balloons, cake, popcorn, laughter, presents for the kids and playtime—Sunday’s celebration at Cohen’s Park of adoptive and foster families was like any birthday party. This party, however, marked November’s emphasis as National Adoption Awareness Month, and was organized by Lonoke County Children of Arkansas Loved for a Lifetime (The CALL), and the Lonoke County office [...]

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Three-year trends in a study of pedestrian and bicycle fatal accidents show the developed areas of the Central Arkansas region to be the most dangerous. The minority areas of Little Rock showed a greater rate than other areas, according to a report released last week to the Metroplan board of directors at its monthly meeting.

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