Debra Hale-Shelton
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Tech reassigns theater director
posted: 02/03/2012 4:22 a.m. Comments 2
Arkansas Tech University announced Thursday that it replaced the director of the school’s theater program, which has come under criticism from the administration.
Conway leaders grilled on tax
posted: 01/27/2012 5:45 a.m. Discuss
Mayor Tab Townsell and five of Conway’s eight aldermen fielded questions Thursday night about the city’s proposed 0.25 percent sales-tax rededication during a meeting of the Faulkner County Tea Party.
UCA sets fund limit, broadens meetings
posted: 01/24/2012 5:05 a.m. Discuss
The University of Central Arkansas board of trustees — meeting for the first time since the appointment of a new president, two new trustees and a new board chairman — voted Monday to put limits on a contentious board fund and to provide for more staff and student input than ever before allowed.
Meadors’ buyout bypassed UCA contract
posted: 01/14/2012 4:18 a.m. Discuss
When the University of Central Arkansas board of trustees bought out Allen Meadors’ contract in September, the trustees had a new severance agreement drafted rather than follow the one in his contract.
Beebe appoints 2 as UCA trustees
posted: 01/14/2012 4:14 a.m. Discuss
Gov. Mike Beebe on Friday appointed two new people to the University of Central Arkansas board of trustees, leaving just three who were on the seven-member board during former UCA President Lu Hardin’s tenure.
Prosecutor: Man spins good tale
posted: 01/13/2012 4:40 a.m. Discuss
A felon who claims to know what happened to John Glasgow — a Little Rock executive who disappeared four years ago — spins a good story but shouldn’t be assumed to be credible, especially given an impending sentencing hearing that could net him a lengthy prison term, Prosecuting Attorney Cody Hiland of the 20th Judicial District said Thursday.
Grandma set fire fatal to 2, officials say
posted: 01/10/2012 6:33 a.m. Discuss
A retired military nurse who was raising her 7-year-old granddaughter stabbed the child and set their house near Lake Conway on fire, killing both of them, Faulkner County authorities said Monday.
Debt recurring plot at Oxford American
posted: 01/08/2012 4:28 a.m. Discuss
The year was 1992. Bill Clinton won the presidential election. Arkansas-born Johnny Cash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Edna Lewis, once the grande dame of Southern cuisine, retired as a New York chef and returned to her native South.
Faulkner County offices spread thinner, and clerks like it
posted: 01/06/2012 4:17 a.m. Discuss
The circuit and county clerks in Faulkner County are entering 2012 in new, more spacious homes.
Bones to be studied for link to missing man
posted: 01/04/2012 4:20 a.m. Discuss
Skeletal remains thought to be those of a Faulkner County man who mysteriously vanished from his rural home in 2006 will be sent to the state Crime Laboratory, the county coroner said Tuesday.
