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Bullet-torn vehicles hold lessons for 21

Bullet-torn vehicles hold lessons for 21

Law enforcement officers from across Arkansas surrounded a dark green, bullet-riddled Mercury Villager minivan Thursday morning in the middle of the Pulaski County Shooting Range just southwest of Little Rock. They held cameras, notepads, and bright pink rods used to mark bullet...
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Fayetteville three aim to stay together

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Mike in the middle

U. S. Rep. Mike Ross returned my call Tuesday as he was on his way back to Washington from ...

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Razorbacks coach taking to social media

It didn’t take long for John L. Smith to prove age is just a number.

Beebe pledges to reimburse veterans fees

Gov. Mike Beebe pledged this week to pull money from one of his discretionary funds, if needed, to pay back veterans and their families the more than $560,000 they were charged in illegal fees over the past three years by the state-run Little Rock Veterans Home.

Hogs hammer Vols from start

There was no need to sweat the small stuff.

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2 allege retailer stalling in probe

Two Democratic House leaders said Thursday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is not cooperating with their investigation into allegations that the company used bribes to gain market share in Mexico.

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1970s disco queen, Grammy winner Donna Summer, one of the most influential singers of the disco era, died Thursday. She was 63.

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Beebe pledges to reimburse veterans fees

Gov. Mike Beebe pledged this week to pull money from one of his discretionary funds, if needed, to pay back veterans and their families the more than $560,000 they were charged in illegal fees over the past three years by the state-run Little Rock Veterans Home.

2 allege retailer stalling in probe

Two Democratic House leaders said Thursday that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is not cooperating with their investigation into allegations that the company used bribes to gain market share in Mexico.

The Grating Dictator

The wonderful thing that has arisen from the Arab Spring is that people in the region can now ridicule tyrants like Moammar Gadhafi and Hosni Mubarak instead of quaking at the mention of their names.

U.S. sets new rules to stem prison rape

The Justice Department on Thursday issued the first comprehensive federal rules aimed at “zero tolerance” for sexual assaults against inmates in prisons, jails and other houses of detention.

Let’s save it

“If those fisheries shut down, trout fishing in Arkansas would end. All trout in Arkansas originate in these two hatcheries.” —Mike Armstrong, deputy director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.

Hogs hammer Vols from start

There was no need to sweat the small stuff.

Global leaders seek to corral Europe crisis

WASHINGTON (AP) — The leaders of eight of the world's biggest economies meet this weekend outside Washington, seeking to keep Europe's debt crisis from spiraling out of control and jeopardizing fledgling recoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Suspect arrested in deadly Miss. highway shootings

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi say they've arrested a suspect in two fatal highway shootings that happened late at night along desolate stretches.

China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term

BEIJING (AP) — The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight.

World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries

BANGKOK (AP) — World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country euro currency union.

House showdown looms over indefinite detention

WASHINGTON (AP) — A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders.

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