LITTLE ROCK — A North Little Rock alderman resigned today after being implicated this week in the federal indictment of a Cabot man accused of attempted bid-rigging on North Little Rock city contracts.

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LITTLE ROCK — Deer hunting was opened Friday in a section along the lower White River by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at its meeting in Stuttgart Friday.

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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.

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OZARK — Officials in Ozark say the FBI has dispatched investigators to their small Arkansas town to look into last week's use of a Taser on a 10-year-old girl who refused to take a shower.

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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ unemployment rate rose five-tenths of a percentage point in October to 7.6 percent, labor statistics released today show.

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As his M1 Abrams tank, nicknamed Bonecrusher, rolled through Fallujah, Iraq, Gunnery Sgt. Nick Popaditch thought about the trail of dead insurgents left in its wake: “Fight and you die. Run and you die. Hide and you die. Hey, this works for me.”

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FAYETTEVILLE — A University of Arkansas fraternity chapter is under investigation after a pledge was hospitalized last week when he consumed too much alcohol at a house party.

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LITTLE ROCK — The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Thursday approved beer and small-farm wine permits for a Walmart Neighborhood Market and a Walmart Supercenter in Fayetteville, the first grocery stores in the city to be approved for alcohol sales.

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LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Blanche Lincoln and other congressional Democrats in Arkansas will have difficulty getting re-elected next year because they will have a hard time separating themselves from the national Democratic agenda, political strategist Dick Morris said today.

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LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Parole Board announced today it would recommend parole for a 54-year-old convicted rapist imprisoned since 1976.

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