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Police: 16 kilograms of cocaine seized at UN

Police: 16 kilograms of cocaine seized at UN

A shipment containing 16 kilograms of cocaine was seized last week at the U.N.'s mail intake center, a New York Police Department spokesman said Thursday. Paul Browne, NYPD's chief spokesman, said the drug was in a white bag evidently masquerading as a diplomatic pouch that rais...

Connecticut home invasion killer sentenced to death

A Connecticut man expressed regret but steadfastly blamed his accomplice as he was sentenced to die Friday for a deadly home invas...

Higher Education Board approves funding for ASU construction

The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board has approved funding for construction projects requested by Arkansas State Univer...
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UA takes cautious approach with prospect

If it had been anyone but Dennis Dodd, it might be suspicious.

RICHARD DAVENPORT

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Arkansas coaches lure linebacker in for visit

Arkansas’ aggressive approach to recruiting highly sought linebacker Otha Peters of Covington, La., has paid off for the Razorbacks.

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The few signal films of director Alex Cox

Sid & Nancy (1986) was released on Blu-ray last month (suggested retail $24.99), and I’ve been meaning to get ...

Department of Education names finance leader

The Arkansas Department of Education has hired the superintendent of the Lavaca district in Sebastian County as its new assistant commissioner for the Division of Fiscal and Administrative Services.

Missing FTs hamper Hogs

Arkansas’ best free-throw shooters among its eight healthy scholarship players are sophomore guard Mardracus Wade, junior guard Julysses Nobles and freshman guards BJ Young and Ky Madden.

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Candidates down to 3 to head ASU-Jonesboro

Arkansas State University System President Charles Welch chose two candidates from Texas and one from California on Thursday as finalists for the ASU-Jonesboro chancellor’s position.

State falls off in sales of homes; in U.S., new ones selling slower

Arkansas home sales fell 6 percent in December compared with December 2010, and 2011 was the worst year since the Arkansas Realtors Association began releasing statistics in 2004.

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New this week The Grey 82 R Liam Neeson leads an unruly group of oil-rig roughnecks whose plane has crashed into a remote Alaskan wilderness, where they must battle not only mortal injuries and merciless weather, but a vicious pack of rogue wolves. With Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, Joe Anderson; directed by Joe Carnahan.

Debate reheats Romney-Gingrich dueling

Picking up where their last debate left off, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich resumed battling Thursday night over personal integrity and the tenor of their respective campaigns, each accusing the other of unfair character attacks.

Nothing off the table

ombs away” should not be the first “B military response from the United States if Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz, but respond we must. Closing international waters is a blockade—essentially an act of war against other states.

Missing FTs hamper Hogs

Arkansas’ best free-throw shooters among its eight healthy scholarship players are sophomore guard Mardracus Wade, junior guard Julysses Nobles and freshman guards BJ Young and Ky Madden.

California passes new auto emission rules

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California air regulators passed sweeping auto emission standards Friday that include a mandate to have 1.4 million electric and hybrid vehicles on state roads by 2025.

AP Interview: End of prison oversight not certain

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The court-appointed receiver overseeing California's prison health care system said Friday the state must keep its promise to spend more than $2 billion for new medical facilities before the federal courts can end an oversight role that has lasted six years.

Suicide bomber kills 33 at Shiite funeral in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck a Shiite funeral procession Friday, killing 33 people as suspected al-Qaida militants stepped up apparent efforts to provoke a counterattack by Shiite militias on Sunnis that could pave the way toward open sectarian warfare now that U.S. troops have left Iraq.

China Ex-Im Bank lends $41M for Bahamas project

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — China's state-owned Export-Import Bank has agreed to finance a new port and a bridge in the Bahamas, the second major infrastructure project backed in recent months by the Chinese in the island nation.

Obama urges Congress to act in election year

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama told House Democrats Friday to be ready to work with Republicans if they show a willingness to put politics aside even "for just a nanosecond," but to stay firm and push back if the GOP stands in the way.

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