Van Buren County students in grades 4-12 are eligible to enter the county Dairy Foods Recipe Contest.

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A Clinton medical practice has been chosen by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to serve in a patient-centered medical home pilot program.

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The South Fork Little Red River Bridge on Highway 65 in Clinton is shown being demolished. The bridge was built in 1931, widened in 1962 and demolished in 2011 as the new bridge opened. The bridge was a 404.8-foot, three-spanned cantilevered deck truss bridge.

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The 2011-12 school year in the Clinton district will begin earlier next year, the School Board decided at its meeting Monday night.

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It was Saturday, March 19, when 50 junior and senior students in Krissi Graham’s classes made up a snow day learning and studying outside in the forest setting of South Fork Nature Center.

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The Van Buren County sheriff’s office continues investigating a March 20 arson that consumed more than 700 acres in the northern part of the county while firefighters remained busy with at least four more fires through the week.

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The Children’s Advocacy Alliance, a partnership between CASA 20th and the Central Arkansans Children’s Advocacy Center, is calling on all citizens in Van Buren County to join with them in taking a stand to say no to child abuse.

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LITTLE ROCK – Lawmakers again failed to form a consensus on a congressional redistricting plan Wednesday, as a second Democrat-sponsored proposal cleared a House committee while two Republican proposa

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Perils of Pauline: A handful of Republican zealots has the insurance industry and a significant chunk of the state budget tied to the railroad tracks. They’ll let the train run over it unless they get their way on removing an appropriation (not spending) of federal money to implement federal health care reform as other states [...]

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Fort Smith Firefighters extinguished a fire at a local plant Wednesday morning before any serious structural damage was done, according to the battalion chief.

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