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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...

Players and coaches honored at LRTD Club banquet

Various coaches and players from around the state were honored at the Little Rock Touchdown Club's end-of-the-year banquet, held a...

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.

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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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MOVIESTYLE

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.

Players and coaches honored at LRTD Club banquet

Various coaches and players from around the state were honored at the Little Rock Touchdown Club's end-of-the-year banquet, held at The Peabody Hotel.

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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) — Seeking to influence other states and Washington, 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.

Student charged in Utah school bomb plot

ROY, Utah (AP) — Authorities have charged an 18-year-old man with possession of a weapon of mass destruction after they say he and another teenager planned to bomb a Utah high school.

Islamists, protesters scuffle at at Egypt rally

CAIRO (AP) — Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as their political differences boiled over at a rally by tens of thousands marking an anniversary in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.

Dow slips after US economic growth disappoints

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing mostly lower on news that the U.S. grew at a slower pace than expected in the fourth quarter.

Obama urges Congress to act in election year

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats for an election-year fight, urging them to work with Republicans if they show some willingness to put politics aside but telling the rank and file to call them out if they stand in the way.

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