NEW HIGH SCHOOL: LISA Academy recently opened a new high school to accommodate growth. It’s in western Little Rock and part of a charter school with a 31 percent black enrollment and 74 percent full lunch price population, against about 71 percent black and free- and reduced-price lunch in Little Rock district. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial [...]

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U.S. District Court Judge P.K. Holmes III was publicly sworn in as a member of the federal judiciary in Arkansas at a ceremony Friday in Fort Smith.

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First National Bank of Fort Smith has not closed on the purchase of The Bank of Fayetteville or any other bank.

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Improved account pricing led Arkansas Best Corp. and its largest subsidiary to a profitable third quarter despite a reduction in tonnage, company officials announced Friday.

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The purchase of Fort Smith-based OK Industries by a poultry and food producer out of Celaya, Mexico, is good for all concerned, OK’s top officer said Friday.

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On Tuesday, November 8, a special election will be held for an important job-creation project that will decide the future of Arkansas’s interstates. If approved by voters, the 2011 Interstate Rehabilitation Program will authorize our Highway Commission to re-issue $575 million in bonds. These bonds will allow us to continue the work of [...]

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The purchase of Fort Smith-based OK Industries by a poultry and food producer out of Celaya, Mexico, is good for all concerned, OK’s top officer said Friday.

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It is the last weekend to enjoy the haunted happenings in and around Fort Smith as the Halloween season draws to an end.

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This yarn has traveled around the world so many times it will never be supplanted by the facts: But, just for the record, that $16 muffin at a Washington hotel wasn’t — it was the cost of muffin, beverages and service and reflected the cost of rooms provided at no charge for the conference. In a new [...]

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Charles Blow, who writes a weekly column for the New York Times based on polling and other data, hit a favorite topic of mine during election bloviations. Politicians of a certain sort love to talk about American exceptionalism and the United States’ innate if not God-given superiority. But the numbers don’t lie. We sometimes fall [...]

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