WALMART COMING: To former Harvest Foods site. The deed was done Monday on Walmart Realty taking over the lease and mortgage to the former Harvest Foods store in the Razorback Square shopping center at Cantrell and Riverdale. A 65,000-square-foot Neighborhood Market is planned. Its footprint is shown at the very end of this 133-page lease assignment document [...]

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The Fort Smith Regional Chamber of Commerce has created and filled a new position and reconfigured how it will handle economic development, Chamber President and CEO Paul Harvel confirmed Wednesday.

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Chester will have its first Farmer’s Market and Poultry Swap on Saturday and continuing through October.

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According to a news release from the Fort Smith Police Department, emergency 911 abilities are currently not available via cell phones.

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COME TOGETHER: Romney, Huckabee. I’m not saying you should rush home and program your Tivo, but note that Mike Huckabee has scheduled an interview with Mitt Romney on his Fox talk show this weekend. Huckabee and Romney had a less-than-cordial relationship during the 2008 campaign, some of it rooted in the old friction between Southern Baptists [...]

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By Robbie Neiswanger Arkansas News Bureau • rneiswanger@arkansasnews.com FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas’ goal was to play defensive end Trey Flowers 10 to 12 snaps last week, letting the true freshman ease into his first taste of Southeastern Conference football. But when Arkansas defensive end Tenarius Wright fell awkwardly to the turf on Alabama’s first series and grabbed his left [...]

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SALLISAW — Sequoyah County rural volunteer firefighters learned Wednesday they have a new hurdle to jump if they want certain grant funding.

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A Sebastian County jury has awarded the former head of cardiology for Sparks Health System more than $1.3 million in damages in a breach-of-contract case against his former employer.

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Most of the discussion of an Animal Services Task Force meeting Wednesday centered around issues of confining and restraining dogs.

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An Oklahoma man who robbed a Fort Smith pharmacy was sentenced to 11 years in prison Wednesday after he pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery in Sebastian County Circuit Court.

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