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Police arrive at Occupy site, arrest 4

2:42 p.m. update Dozens of police officers moved into the Occupy Little Rock camp site Wednesday afternoon, arresting four members who refused to leave the area. The protesters had been camped out since October, but were informed last month that their permit to do so on a cit...

Delta Blues officer sentenced to 16 months

Another officer involved in Operation Delta Blues was sentenced on Wednesday afternoon. Herman Eaton, one of the officers who e...

Teenager drowns in western Arkansas lake

Benton County authorities say searchers have found the body of a Rogers teenager who drowned at Beaver Lake. Sheriff's Capt. Hunt...
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JOHN BRUMMETT

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OPINION

Let’s get ready to rumble

The rest of you can go all right-wing if you want. And you certainly seem to want. Those of ...

PAUL GREENBERG

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EDITORIAL

The $2-billion lesson

Anybody need still another argument for reviving the old Glass-Steagall Act (1933-99 ), with its salutary separation between commercial ...

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SPORTS

Forget World Peace, give Fisher a chance

It would be deeply gratifying, with a nice sense of irony, if Derek Fisher picked up his sixth NBA ...

Razorbacks to play in Las Vegas Invitational

Arkansas will play in the Las Vegas Invitational this upcoming season, according to multiple reports.

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Housing starts rose to 717K in April

U.S. builders began work on more homes last month, evidence that the battered housing market is slowly healing.

East Arkansas offers joyful noise

Music fans who have been praying for a free festival of major proportions will see their prayers answered this weekend in Helena-West Helena, with the return of the annual Arkansas Delta Family Gospel Festival, to be held downtown, Jack W. Hill writes in Thursday’s Arkansas Weekend section.

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Governor appoints veterans director

Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday appointed retired Arkansas Army National Guard Col. Alecia “Cissy” Rucker to head the beleaguered state Department of Veterans Affairs.

Greek talks collapse, forcing new elections

Greece headed into a month of political uncertainty after power-sharing talks collapsed Tuesday, triggering new elections that could determine whether the country retains its tenuous position in Europe’s currency.

Icy margarita pie saves ripe berries

I wanted to make strawberry ice cream, but as usual, I had forgotten to put the canister of my ice cream maker in the freezer to chill for the requisite 24 hours. And the berries would not keep another day. I had already culled far too many — the super ripe Arkansas berries, though tasty, were quite fragile and were quickly bruising under their own weight.

JPMorgan’s Dimon retains board title

The chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase survived a shareholder push Tuesday to strip him of the title of chairman of the board, five days after he disclosed a $2 billion trading loss by the bank.

Jim Crow in Little Rock

BACK IN the bad old days, the complex rules that governed our strange racial caste system in these latitudes had to be changed regularly to keep one step ahead of simple justice. Once the Constitution and courts, not to mention the result of The War, had recognized black citizens as, well, citizens, all kinds of tricks were used to evade that political (and moral) imperative. Given the lure of that old devil the Race Issue, not to mention the generally fallen nature of man, there was no shortage of devious ways to get around the law. And conscience.

Booster club foots more of bill for ASU coaches

Arkansas State heralded its hiring of Gus Malzahn in December as a big step in overhauling a modest football program into an elite midmajor one.

RFK Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, found dead in NY

BEDFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, was found dead in her home Wednesday.

Crews try to stop AZ blaze from crossing fire line

CROWN KING, Ariz. (AP) — An evacuation order for a historic mining town made sense to Taryn Denyce earlier this week when a wildfire sparked, sending flames through the trees and smoke swirling in the air.

Greece gets caretaker PM until new vote in June

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.

J.C. Penney's shares in free-fall after 1Q loss

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street doesn't seem to like J.C. Penney's new everyday low pricing any better than Main Street does.

No sure thing for GOP: a tight battle for Senate

WASHINGTON (AP) — Divisive Republican primaries, an out-of-nowhere GOP retirement in Maine and an unexpectedly competitive race in North Dakota add up to an unpredictable battle for control of the Senate this fall, confounding early forecasts that an era of Democratic rule was inevitably coming to an end.

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LIKE IT IS: Forget World Peace, give Fisher a chance

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FRONT BURNER: Icy margarita pie saves ripe berries

Jennifer Hansen:

HEART & SOUL: A door closes as another opens up

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