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Too much bigger to fail

Updated: May 12, 2013 8:10pm

I try not to write about things I don’t know much about, and I’ll be the first to admit I understand little about high finance. But I do know this: If something is too big to fail, then it’s too...

Vols Batter Arkansas Staff In Game One Win

May 11, 2013 5:01pm

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas’ pitching staff has been dominant in 2013, carrying the nation’s top earned run average into its final home series of the regular season.

There has been one way for...

Wal-Mart tops Fortune 500 list, windstream joins ranks

May 11, 2013 1:00am

Wal-Mart has been ranked No. 1 on the 2013 Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue. The Bentonville-based retail giant reclaimed the top spot from ExxonMobil. In fiscal year...

Mother’s Day is perfect for memory sorting and organizing

May 11, 2013 1:00am

This year, I will spend Mother’s Day sifting through boxes and bags of miscellany that have been stored in an attic for the better part of a decade. After finally signing a contract for the sale...

Hefty largemouth bass like this 6.27-pound lunker make the lower Arkansas River a goal for anglers. David Shopher of McGehee caught this fish in the Coal Pile area near Pendleton. (Joe Mosby photo)

‘Best’ bass lakes debatable

May 11, 2013 1:00am

It’s a topic for coffee shop conversations or maybe waiting out a rain on a boat dock. What is the best bass lake in Arkansas? Or, what is the best bass lake in the United States?

The...

Top-notch college golf available

May 11, 2013 1:00am

LITTLE ROCK — Two golf shots struck by Sebastian Cappelen deep in the final round of the Southeastern Conference tournament say plenty about his skill level and even more about what’s between his...

Mark Buffalo / Arkansas News Bureau

Meeting Helped Hogs Crawl Out Of ‘Tough Spot’

Updated: May 10, 2013 11:13am

FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn doesn’t know exactly how long the team meeting lasted. It may have been an hour. It felt like more.

But sitting down to work through his team’s...

From left, Pearl Shadwick, Joolee Jefferson and Kelly Bennett of the women’s choir of Southeast Arkansas Community Correction Center in Pine Bluff sing at the state Capitol during an event Friday organized by Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind. (John Lyon photo)

Event seeks to raise awareness of mothers, children separated by incarceration

Updated: May 10, 2013 4:02pm

LITTLE ROCK — About 26,000 Arkansas children have an incarcerated parent, according to Dee Ann Newell, executive director of Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind.

The group held its...

Audit raises questions about documentation of care in Medicaid program

Updated: May 10, 2013 2:58pm

LITTLE ROCK — An audit of state programs that receive federal funding found documentation inadequate to support about $1.3 million in Medicaid billings.

State Department of Human Services...

Welsh reassures Womack that 188th Wing will get its drone mission

Updated: May 09, 2013 4:43pm

WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s top leader said Thursday that the drone mission planned for Fort Smith’s 188th Fighter Wing remains on schedule to begin operating in 2016.

“The intent is to...