Few answers in base bloodshed

Neighbors, friends say suspect said goodbye days before attack

An Army psychiatrist suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood cleaned out his apartment and left a phone message saying goodbye to a friend in the days before the rampage that left 13 people dead, neighbors said Friday.
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Stymied, 5 leave Holocaust project

Key members of an Austrian Holocaust research center have quit in a dispute with the city’s Jewish community.
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Conway layoffs cut deep

Bus plant part of city since ’33

For weeks, rumors flew down the assembly line at one of the city’s oldest employers — a bus plant that’s been tightly woven into the fabric of Conway since 1933.
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Felsenthal watching water rise

Town already half underwater; Ouachita River to crest next week

Mike Nash has spent the past week watching the water rise.
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Obituaries

OBITUARIES Information for the obituaries and funeral notices below was supplied to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Advertising Department by funeral homes.
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Obituaries

Information for the obituaries and funeral notices below was supplied to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Advertising Department by funeral homes.
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EDITORIALS Two ton of fan mail

That’s what we get, we get two ton of . . .

IS IT just us or have the letter writers been taking their vitamins lately? And not the chewable Flintstone kind, either. But the big-boy, adult vitamins that taste nasty and come with calcium, fish oil and high-octane caffeine.
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COLUMNISTS The myth of ’08 demolished

Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010.
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Bentonville hands Har-Ber 1st defeat, earns No. 1 seed

Bentonville’s defense recorded its fifth shutout of the season, and the Tigers earned the 7AWest’s No. 1 playoff seed with a 17-0 victory over previously undefeated Springdale Har-Ber.
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ARKANSAS VS. SOUTH CAROLINA: Time for November drive

Hogs say game ‘biggest’ of year

Arkansas’ postseason fate might well be riding on the outcome of today’s game against South Carolina.
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Jobless rate rises to 10.2%

Level highest since 1983; climb not expected to stop

The unemployment rate in the U.S. rose to 10.2 percent in October, the Labor Department said Friday.
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Droid sent out to battle iPhone

Verizon’s smart phone employs Google’s Android operating system

In one corner is Apple’s iPhone. Launched in 2007, it revolutionized the smartphone market with its sleek exterior and a collection of applications that seems to grow more extensive by the day.
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Burying treasure

Planting bulbs now will yield spring’s first breaths of color

Nothing is prettier than a field of daffodils blowing in the breeze, or a bed of bright red tulips, or the sweet smell of purple or pink hyacinths. Spring-blooming bulbs are one of the easiest ways to add color to the landscape with very little effort.
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Ask the expert

I promised myself last year that we’d do what we could to our home to make it more comfortable this year. It stayed cold indoors all last winter and we hated it.
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