The North Little Rock School District has issued a statement to reassure everyone following the reported rape of a female student by a male West Campus high school student this week while they were alone in an office. Deundre Womack, 17, has been charged with the attack. It’s a tough situation for the district. Realistically, [...]

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A tough column this week by Steve Barnes on the case of Andrew Rhew, the trooper who resigned after a DWI in Missouri last weekend. He’d been fired earlier as a result of a fatal crash while on duty, but reinstated by the State Police Commission at the instigation of Wallace Fowler, the powerful and [...]

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Can’t link it because it’s behind a pay wall, but the Hot Spring Sentinel Record carried an interesting report today on remarks by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. He told county officials that changes in the state Freedom of Information Act might be in order. Why? Because free access to public records could serve as a deterrent [...]

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I’d like to see a count of the number of times trucks have failed to pass under this railroad bridge on Broadway in North Little Rock. This is a Channel 11 photo of the latest, currently blocking traffic on Broadway. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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A 10-day flotilla trip to promote economic development along the Arkansas River will include an overnight stay in Van Buren/Fort Smith.

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As part of the Oct. 8 Civil War Tour, Joe Hamilton of Mountainburg will stroll the grounds of the Crawford County Courthouse in Van Buren.

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Martha E. Howell and the late Dr. Clarence R. Williams will be inducted into the Van Buren High School Hall of Honor on Saturday, Oct. 8.

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Representatives from the state, county and local cities attended the Crawford County Volunteers for Literacy open house Thursday.

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Cedarville School Board approved final projects that will be paid for with money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act at its meeting Sept. 22.

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Five of six individuals implicated in a recent drug sting by the Van Buren Police Department have pleaded not guilty to selling methamphetamines in Van Buren.

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