FORT SMITH — Mayor Ray Baker has been released from the hospital after being admitted Dec. 17 with an infection.

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Law enforcement authorities made a second arrest Tuesday, sewing up their investigation into the Dec. 22 robbery and shooting at a Washburn man’s home, Sgt. Hobe Runion of the Sebastian County Sheriff

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Fort Smith police have identified Karl McKenry, 54, as the pedestrian struck Sunday by a vehicle on North Greenwood Avenue.

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LITTLE ROCK — A Mega Millions ticket bought at a convenience store in North Little Rock is worth $1 million, lottery officials said today.

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Merchants in Paris are joining their counterparts nationwide in smiling about the results of the recently-ended Christmas shopping season.

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Receipt of property and sales taxes dropped this year, which prompted county officials to predict more of the same in 2011.

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Jon Eubanks of Paris has spent the weeks since the November election preparing to represent Logan and part of Franklin County in the House of Representatives.

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New Year’s Day is Saturday and, as expected, some will celebrate with a little too much cheer.

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Nine counts ranging from felony intent to manufacture drug charges to weapons charges to hunting from a moving vehicle have been filed against two Magazine men in connection with a Nov. 27 incident.

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Holiday closures are announced Saturday is New Year’s Day. Because of the holiday, state, county and city offices will be closed on Friday.

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