FAYETTEVILLE — One more Arkansas baseball player has been added to the United States collegiate national team’s roster this summer. Arkansas infielder Matt Reynolds is expected to join the squad as early as Saturday. The sophomore was added to a roster already loaded with Razorbacks with infielder Dominic Ficociello and pitchers DJ Baxendale and Ryne Stanek. [...]

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By Robbie Neiswanger Arkansas News Bureau • rneiswanger@arkansasnews.com FAYETTEVILLE — Former Arkansas great Preston Carpenter, who caught a touchdown pass on one of the most famous plays in Razorbacks’ football history, died Thursday. He was 77. Carpenter lettered at Arkansas from 1953-55 and is remembered for teaming with Buddy Bob Benson for a 66-yard touchdown on “The Powder [...]

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A huge political backer of Gov. Mike Beebe, Highway Commissioner John Burkhalter, won a round at the Capitol Zoning District Commission this evening when the commission voted unanimously to put out for public hearing a proposal to change rules governing land use around the Capitol to lift a three-story height limit so Burkhalter can build [...]

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Share prices of nine of 15 Arkansas-based companies fell in the first half of 2011.

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LITTLE ROCK — An Evening Shade woman pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of obstructing an investigation related to the Jan. 14 firebombing of the home of a mixed-race couple in Hardy, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

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LITTLE ROCK — Former gas company executive Sheffield Nelson on Thursday filed a revised version of his ballot proposal to raise the state severance tax with the attorney general’s office.

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Near the end of what turned out to be a rather contentious meeting of the Arkansas Lottery Commission’s legal and audit committee, lottery director Ernie Passailaigue told commissioners that the $98 million the lottery will transfer to the academic scholarship fund will be short of his original goal. Passailaigue said that lottery sales had come [...]

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It’s open. Close-outs: * MICHELLE BACHMAN: Nice roundup of five top gaffes. The list will grown. * REPUBLICAN WITCH HUNT: KUAR followed up on our report yesterday about Republicans’ enormous FOI request to the UALR Law School that the GOP hadn’t even bothered to pick up. It was a fishing expedition to see if librarian Jeff Woodmansee [...]

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LITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe announced 48 appointments to state boards and commissions today.

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WASHINGTON — The Senate will return to work next week, forgoing a weeklong recess, as lawmakers try to reach agreement on raising the debt limit.

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