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Police searching for missing razorback statue
posted: 05/21/2013 7:13 a.m. Discuss
TEXARKANA — Authorities in Texarkana are searching for a 300-pound, cast-iron statue of a razorback that was swiped from a couple's fenced backyard.
Storm blamed for Springdale death; more severe weather possible Tuesday
updated: 05/21/2013 6:52 a.m. Discuss
Officials say one person was killed in Springdale Monday night when a storm packing winds of nearly 70 mph threw a street sign into the victim's vehicle.
Three QBs Competing To Be ‘The One’
posted: 05/21/2013 5 a.m. Discuss
Terry Mounce wants to be a more accurate passer, and the possibility exists that he can be a starter as well.
Spring Football Notebook: Little Excited For Future
posted: 05/21/2013 5 a.m. Discuss
The Pioneers return seven starters on both sides of the ball, and construction has begun on a $3.5 million indoor practice facility.
Weather Puts Stop To Tigers’ Spring Game
posted: 05/21/2013 5 a.m. Discuss
Bentonville’s spring football game just wasn’t meant to take place, no matter what the Tigers tried.
Pea Ridge Rebuilds Team, Stadium
posted: 05/21/2013 5 a.m. Discuss
Pea Ridge is building a new football stadium, and the Blackhawks are rebuilding their football team after losing 21 of 22 starting positions to graduation.
Oklahoma stricken
posted: 05/21/2013 4:59 a.m.
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MOORE, Okla. — A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 200 mph. At least 51 people were killed, including at least 20 children, and officials said the death toll was expected to rise.
Slow tornado season suddenly on a streak
posted: 05/21/2013 4:56 a.m. Discuss
TULSA — Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in middle America over the past week, including Monday’s twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, contradict what had been a relatively quiet start of the 2013 tornado season.
Role of Hezbollah in civil war growing
posted: 05/21/2013 4:54 a.m. Discuss
BEIRUT — Hezbollah was pulled more deeply into Syria’s civil war as 28 guerrillas from the Lebanese Shiite militant group were killed and dozens more wounded while fighting rebels, Syria activists said Monday.
Post-collision commutes slow
posted: 05/21/2013 4:39 a.m. Discuss
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Commuters rode a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut’s shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities investigated the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled railways.
Uganda silences paper after story
posted: 05/21/2013 4:38 a.m. Discuss
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police disabled an independent newspaper’s printing press after forcibly entering to look for evidence against an army general who recently questioned the president’s purported plan to have his son succeed him, witnesses said Monday.
Visa overstays get panel’s look
posted: 05/21/2013 4:37 a.m. Discuss
WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee adopted two proposals intended to keep foreign citizens from staying in the U.S. on expired visas, in an effort to build Republican support for a revision of immigration policy.
No arrests in Spokane ricin case
posted: 05/21/2013 4:37 a.m. Discuss
SPOKANE, Wash. — The FBI said Monday that no one has been arrested after last week’s discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin in Spokane, but the agency remained tight-lipped about the investigation and a weekend raid at a downtown apartment building.
U.S. races to beef up diplomats’ protection
posted: 05/21/2013 4:36 a.m. Discuss
WASHINGTON — By late this summer, the U.S. State Department plans to send dozens of additional diplomatic security agents to high-threat embassies, install millions of dollars’ worth of advanced fire-survival gear and surveillance cameras in those diplomatic posts, and improve training for employees headed to the riskiest missions.
The criminal complaint against Shoffner
posted: 05/21/2013 4:35 a.m. Discuss
The following is a summary of the criminal complaint fi led Monday against Arkansas State Treasurer Martha Shoffner. Shoffner, 68, is accused of accepting cash payments from a bond broker in exchange for transfering a large portion of the State’s investment activity to the broker.
Informant says $6,700 in cash given to Shoffner campaign
posted: 05/21/2013 4:34 a.m. Discuss
In the criminal complaint filed Monday against state Treasurer Martha Shoffner, a confidential informant told federal investigators that one of two cash campaign contributions “he or she” made to Shoffner’s 2010 re-election campaign was $4,700 to be used to cover the cost of a campaign watch party.
Audit: Office buys put 1 broker ahead of rest
posted: 05/21/2013 4:33 a.m. Discuss
Steele Vincent Stephens, an investment broker who has sold bonds to Arkansas’ treasurer’s office, has had one major client in the past five years — the state of Arkansas — the head of the state’s Securities Department said Monday.
Three NY University researchers accused of secret work with China
posted: 05/21/2013 4:33 a.m. Discuss
NEW YORK — Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Twister path followed ’99 Oklahoma storm
posted: 05/21/2013 4:32 a.m. Discuss
NEW YORK — Monday’s powerful tornado in suburban Oklahoma City loosely followed the path of a killer twister that slammed the region in May 1999.
Deadliest storms
posted: 05/21/2013 4:31 a.m. Discuss
A list of the 10 deadliest tornadoes in the United States since 1900: 695 deaths, March 18, 1925, in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
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