SALLISAW — An OSBI agent testified Tuesday that a murder defendant said he was responsible for the death of Shannon Southern.

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GREENWOOD — The city of Greenwood is close to putting a sewer project to Bell Park and Bell Addition out for bid, according to Greg Cross, city’s director of water and wastewater.

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Times Record Staff The Sebastian County Spring cleanup campaign will take place on Saturdays from this weekend through May 8.

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Bill Requires OKC Bombing Lessons OKLAHOMA CITY — The state Senate has passed legislation to include lessons about the Oklahoma City bombing in state history books.

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LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas National Guard's 39th Infantry Brigade is being told to prepare for possible deployment to Afghanistan in 2012.

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TEXARKANA — Convicted evangelist Tony Alamo has had his telephone privileges suspended for more than 400 days for violating Federal Bureau of Prisons policy.

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Timber that fell during the January 2009 ice storm is now causing problems for state forestry officials who fight wildfires.from Channel 7

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They’re coming. Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter, NBC’s Chuck Todd, MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe, The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and David Maraniss, the New York Times’ Jodi Kantor and two New Yorker writers — editor David Remnick and Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza all have books in the works. These books follow “Game Change,” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, [...]

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Karl Rove acolyte Tim Griffin (he once told Rove he’d thought of naming his child for him), his political skills honed as an attack dog for the Bush White House, flocks with similar birds. He’s bringing Republican pit bull Rep. Eric Cantor (he of the miracle bullet that fell through a Richmond office window) to Little [...]

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CNN checks in with 2nd district candidate Patrick Kennedy who is using the emerging social media tool Foursquare to try and connect with voters. “I do not have any personal finances so [I] have to be more creative in outreach to communities and constituencies. Social media, if used creatively, can do just as an effective job,” [...]

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