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Firefighters respond to a blaze at Dover Baptist Church in Smith County, Texas, on Monday. This fire is the latest in a rash of East Texas church fires, most of which have been ruled arson.

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Firefighters respond to a blaze at Dover Baptist Church in Smith County, Texas, on Monday. This fire is the latest in a rash of East Texas church fires, most of which have been ruled arson.

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Haiti raises earthquake’s death toll to 230,000

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 4:39 p.m.

Haiti’s government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.
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Condemned killer asks parole board for mercy

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 4:32 p.m.

An inmate who faces execution next month told members of the state parole board that he has to live with the guilt every day for killing a Bald Knob woman and attacking her young daughter.
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Mariners' Lee has minor foot surgery

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 3:39 p.m.

Cliff Lee’s first spring training with the Seattle Mariners is off to a slow start already.
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Arkansas officials warn of ice forming overnight

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 3:34 p.m.

The most dangerous moments in Arkansas’ wintry weather may come Wednesday morning, when motorists try to drive on roads with fresh ice from Tuesday’s snow melt.
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Kerrigan family disputes autopsy report on father

By By Denise Lavoie, The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 3:33 p.m.

The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan insisted Tuesday that they do “not blame anyone” for her father’s death and criticized a medical examiner’s finding that Daniel Kerrigan died of a heart rhythm problem after a fight with his son.
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Marathon organizers anticipate sellout


Posted: February 9, 2010 3:15 p.m.

A total of 200 registrations ar left forthe full Little Rock Marathon, while 400 are left in the half-marathon, race officials announced Tuesday.
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Nigerian vice president now acting president

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 3:14 p.m.

Nigeria’s vice president is telling the nation he has assumed the presidency as the West African nation’s leader remains hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.
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ATF blames Texas church fires on serial arsonist

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 2:55 p.m.

Recent fires that destroyed or damaged several churches in eastern Texas were likely set by an individual or a group of people, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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City attorney begins 90-day suspension

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 2:34 p.m.

Van Buren’s elected city attorney has started serving a 90-day law license suspension.
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Entergy Arkansas down to 1,400 power failures

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 1:20 p.m.

Entergy Arkansas says about 1,400 customers, mainly in the Little Rock and Hot Springs, areas remain without electricity.
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Beebe moves away from reserve fund plan

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 1:19 p.m.

A spokesman says Gov. Mike Beebe is moving away from his plan to create a $34.5 million balanced budget reserve fund Beebe would control in favor of a proposal giving lawmakers more direction over the money.
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Panel OKs looking into lottery scholarships

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 1:08 p.m.

A legislative panel supports having lawmakers consider the amounts of lottery-funded college scholarships during Arkansas’ first-ever fiscal session.
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Another major storm headed to snowy Mid-Atlantic

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 1:02 p.m.

Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday and headed for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices have been closed since last week and utility workers struggled to restore power already knocked out by a weekend blizzard.
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Obama pleads anew for bipartisanship in Washington

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 12:38 p.m.

President Barack Obama says it’s time for Democrats and Republicans to work hard because the American people “expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics.”
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Court sets hearing on SWEPCO plant

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 12:05 p.m.

The Arkansas Supreme Court is to hear oral arguments on April 15 in a utility’s appeal of a ruling that voided its permit to operate a $1.6 billion coal-fired electric generation plant in southwest Arkansas.
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Warned regulators on Toyota, State Farm says


Posted: February 9, 2010 12:01 p.m.

The nation’s largest auto insurer said Tuesday that it alerted federal safety regulators in late 2007 about a rise in reports of unexpected acceleration in Toyota vehicles, the latest warning sign to emerge about the massive recall.
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Arkansas, Mid-Atlantic feeling effects of winter storms

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 11:26 a.m.

Arkansans felt the effects today of Monday’s winter storm that took the state by surprise.
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Iran accelerates nuclear program

By The Associated Press
Posted: February 9, 2010 11:19 a.m.

Iran began enriching uranium to a higher level on Tuesday over the objections of the United States and its allies who fear the process could eventually be used to give the Islamic republic nuclear weapons.
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At long last, central Arkansas kids revel in real snow

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Posted: February 9, 2010 11:08 a.m.

With apologies to those nursing crumpled fenders (or worse) as a result of the slippery, sleety, snowy precipitation, Wednesday’s Family section joins central Arkansas’ children in a hearty hooray for long-awaited snow days.
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Romantic breakfast ideal way to start off Valentine's Day

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Posted: February 9, 2010 11:07 a.m.

One of the kindest things you can do for a person is to make her breakfast, writes Kelly Brant in Wednesday's Food section.
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