After tasting the national housing-market slump and finding it bitter, local observers predict the Fort Smith area has a sweeter deal coming in 2011.

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Brummett takes the high road and notes the irony in a legislature that is reluctant to take on the responsibility of running the lottery, highway and game and fish commissions while assuring folks that they’re completely safe behind the wheel of a car going 110 mph. I find it hard to believe that the state Constitution [...]

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The people of Jasper are truly grateful, I expect, to be informed on the health of the shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico, cited by their senator as an excuse for his taxpayer-paid trip to a conference in Newfoundland, Canada. Sen. Randy Laverty’s explanation for his need to attend the Energy Council meeting was among [...]

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LITTLE ROCK – An ethics bill expected to be filed this week contains ideas that have failed in the past, but lawmakers who helped craft the new legislation say they are confident of success this year,

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After 30 years of fighting fires in Fort Smith, Capt. Rande McTyre will officially retire from the Fire Department on Monday.

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A local man was killed on the shoulder of a highway Friday night when a car crashed into him and his teenage daughter.

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POTEAU – The Carl Albert State College Student Government Association wants a smoke-free campus, association officers told CASC regents last week.

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I don’t care much for winter. It’s too cold for my taste.

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They’re cute, loving and soft, and they require more work than many people realize.

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By Robbie Neiswanger Arkansas News Bureau • rneiswanger@arkansasnews.com FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas wide receiver Lance Ray was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance after a marijuana cigarette was found in his dorm room on campus late Saturday night. Ray was arrested after the University of Arkansas Police Department responded to a complaint call from a residence [...]

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