Assuming financial regulatory reform works it way through both houses of Congress, immigration reform is the next big ticket item that Congress will address. Democrats have posted their proposal online. It’s 26 pages and aims to address the challenges of illegal immigration by making it more difficult to obtain employment. They propose to do this [...]

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Southwestern Energy sees its profits leap on the strength of its Fayetteville Shale production. How much has the natural gas company spent in Arkansas?

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For the fourth month in a row, the trucking sector showed signs of improvement. Is this a leading indicator of an economic recovery?

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2.5 Quake hits Benton County.from Channel 7

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Judge starts proceedings Friday… by clearing the courtroom.from Channel 7

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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) launched a new television ad today as part of a $1 million effort to bolster Lt. Gov. Bill Halter’s candidacy. The ad attacks Sen. Blanche Lincoln’s votes for NAFTA, CAFTA and certain trade deals with China. More importantly, though, is that it underlines a theme the Halter campaign has been [...]

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Journalists love words. It follows then, that we adore our dictionaries. A dictionary is a powerful book. It opens the door to the world of words and contains the seeds for a harvest of vast knowledge.

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This week’s heavy snow that followed forecasters’ prediction of a light dusting brings out the child in us. In some cases that’s good, but in others it isn’t.

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Many Sherwood residents were not yet born when, on April 4, 1968, Trumann native Gerald Jumper, using the stage name Ray Sherman, sat on a stool in front of a camera in the WMC-TV studios in Memphis and announced to the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had just been shot and killed at [...]

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