The Southern Baptist Convention apparently was the target of an elaborate hoax — complete with phony news releases, a fake website and phones answered by impostors — to make it appear that the denomination had reversed itself and supported gay rights. The SBC is upset. Imagine, suggesting that they might follow the golden rule in all [...]

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Welcome to the Twilight Zone of Arkansas environmental regulation. The Department of Environmental Quality held a hearing last night for a wastewater discharge permit for a coal-fired power plant, SWEPCO’s Turk Plant, that’s probably at the billion-dollar-construction mark already. ADEQ surely will roll over on this anyway. But the Sierra Club was there, arguing that the [...]

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Gov. Mike Beebe has sent out an e-mail call (through the state Democratic Party) for support for Democratic nominee Hudson Hallum in the special election July 12 for House District 54 from Crittenden County. His work is important because this is a strange election. There’s a former Democrat running as an independent, D’James Rogers, who’s tried [...]

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Early polling means not a lot. But this is still amusing. A sample of Texas voters shows President Obama over Gov. Rick Perry. Romney, Bachmann and Pawlenty all lead Obama, though not by much, in presidential matchups in this poll. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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SEARCY — The president of an elementary school Parent Teacher Organization in Searcy has been charged with stealing from the group.

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FORT SMITH — A judge on Tuesday ordered Fort Smith City Clerk Sherri Gard to give petitioners seeking a special election on a 1 percent food tax 10 days to “correct or amend” a deficiency in their petition related to an “insufficient number of verified signatures.”

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FORT SMITH — Rep. Mike Ross on Tuesday asked U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe for a "detailed accounting" of the process involved in closing post offices after his office received documents that reported three Arkansas postal facilities were closing, letters the Postal Service now says were sent in error.

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CONWAY — Though it comes down to about an extra 25 cents per drink, a new tax hike on alcoholic drink is not sitting well with Conway business owners.

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An ongoing neighborhood dispute has landed a Van Buren man in the Crawford County Detention Center facing a charge of aggravated assault.

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Officials from Van Buren, Crawford County and the state have come together to help build a bridge much needed by county residents.

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