LITTLE ROCK — Cutting the $1 million slated for school defibrillators from the state budget has apparently left an unfunded mandate, a state lawmaker said Friday.
LITTLE ROCK — Cutting the $1 million slated for school defibrillators from the state budget has apparently left an unfunded mandate, a state lawmaker said Friday.
Health care reform is much needed, Arkansas’ senior senator, Blanche Lincoln, said during a visit to Lonoke County on Thursday. But as needed as it is, it may be drawing attention from other driving matters, she said.
LITTLE ROCK — A Cabot man faces weapons and drug charges in a federal indictment unsealed Monday that also includes allegations of attempted bid-rigging on North Little Rock city contracts.
A short agenda on Monday left plenty of time for the mayor and several council members to vent their ire at an announced $2.47 cable service rate increase by Suddenlink Communications.
Reversal of the convictions against a former Lonoke chief of police might be brought back to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Already dealing with the death of their son, the family of Jerry Luker was given a new shock, a hospital bill of nearly $50,000 hospital bill. “We just got it. The county [Lonoke] refused to pay it,” dad Jerry Luker said in a telephone interview Nov. 10.
The annual Cabot Christmas Parade sponsored by Cabot City Beautiful has been set for 3 p.m., Dec. 13, Matt Webber, CCB chairman, announced. “Theme for this year’s parade will be A Red, White and Blue Christmas,” he said.
Running errands with mama turned into a special day for six-year-old Tracey White back in 1985 when a chance encounter with the late Cone Magie, then-publisher of the Cabot Star-Herald, not only put Tracey on the front page but became the start of the popular “All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front [...]
Editor’s note: Mark Buffalo is the sports editor of the Cabot Star-Herald, Carlisle Independent and Lonoke Democrat, which are members of Stephens Media’s Central Arkansas Newspapers. He and his wife, Linda, who is a teacher at Lonoke Middle School, adopted a 2-year-old girl from China, who is now named Mary Elisabeth. This column resumes the [...]
Health care reform is much needed, Arkansas’ senior senator, Blanche Lincoln, said during a visit to Lonoke County on Thursday. But as needed as it is, it may be drawing attention from other driving matters, she said.
