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Huckabee touts vote results

He says GOP governorship wins show party on rebound

By Alex Daniels
Posted: November 5, 2009 5:11 a.m.

Victories in several of Tuesday’s off-year elections signaled a resurgent Republican Party, according to Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and unsuccessful contender in the 2008 race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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House panel takes up NFL suspensions

By Alex Daniels
Posted: November 4, 2009 5:23 a.m.

A House subcommittee took up the case of Arkansan Kevin Williams on Tuesday to investigate whether the National Football League fairly suspended the Fordyce native and star defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vikings, after he admitted taking StarCaps, a dietary supplement that contained a banned chemical substance.
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Hearing looks at roadside bombs

Report criticizes organization set up to combat them, save lives

By Alex Daniels
Posted: October 30, 2009 6:35 a.m.

They can be attached to the underbelly of a truck, ignited using a radio-controlled device hundreds of yards away or strapped to the body of a suicide bomber. After eight years of war, homemade bombs are still being used by smaller armies and terrorist agents to inflict havoc, injury and death on the larger, betterequipped U.S. military.
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Boozman jobless-veteran bill advances

By Alex Daniels
Posted: October 29, 2009 4:03 a.m.

Veterans who can’t find jobs would be paid moving and lodging expenses while they get trained in new industries, under a bill the House Committee on Veterans Affairs passed Wednesday.
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$2 million grant to map Arkansas’ broadband gap

By Alex Daniels
Posted: October 28, 2009 3:37 a.m.

The U.S. Department of Commerce is setting aside more than $2 million to map how much of Arkansas has access to broadband — the highspeed connections that bring the Internet to life, allowing people to watch movies and send loads of content over their computers.
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Tiny airports’ hopes rise on service pact

Cities cut by airline to see new flights

By Alex Daniels
Posted: October 25, 2009 5:05 a.m.

Judy McCutcheon hopes that the first commercial airplane flight to Harrison in more than a year won’t be empty when it touches down first thing Monday morning.
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WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF: Magazine calls Oden educator conservation hero

By Alex Daniels, Jane Fullerton
Posted: October 25, 2009 4:59 a.m.

An educator from Oden was honored in Washington last week for teaching his students about life outside the classroom.
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Stimulus touted to panel as right Rx for economy

By Alex Daniels
Posted: October 23, 2009 6:04 a.m.

Though a full recovery is being blocked by stubbornly high unemployment rates, Christina Romer, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, told a congressional panel Thursday that the nation’s economy is on the mend.
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Jet-setting pastor fights U.S. inquiry

Didn’t misuse ministry funds, he says

By Alex Daniels
Posted: October 11, 2009 7:18 a.m.

A multimillionaire televangelist who is fighting a federal investigation will preach at Little Rock’s Agape Church today.
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WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF Snyder seat in danger, opines political publication

By Alex Daniels, Jane Fullerton
Posted: October 11, 2009 4:47 a.m.

Rep. Vic Snyder’s seat was listed among the top 20 most likely to switch party control in 2010 in National Journal’s The Hotline, a political trade publication.
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