Sunday, November 22, 2009 10:17 a.m.

John Krupa

Clinton: Promote study of sciences

Tech fields key in U.S., he says

By John Krupa
Posted: November 20, 2009 5:15 a.m.

Encouraging the nation’s brightest students to pursue careers in mathematics and the sciences is pivotal to America’s future, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.
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Police: Son held mom hostage over $500

By John Krupa
Posted: November 17, 2009 5:08 a.m.

Authorities charged a Jonesboro man with four felonies Monday — including kidnapping — after police say he held his mother hostage for $500.
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Nov. 21 free clinic seeks doctors

It needs more nurses, too; volunteer total now tops 800

By John Krupa
Posted: November 13, 2009 5:09 a.m.

More than 800 people have volunteered to staff Little Rock’s free medical clinic for the uninsured later this month, officials said Thursday.
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Former Bates home restored as museum

By John Krupa
Posted: November 12, 2009 4:49 a.m.

The former home of L.C. and Daisy Bates was ground zero of Little Rock’s civil rights struggle in the late 1950s.
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WWII fighter gets honorary diploma

He left school at 16 to help family

By John Krupa
Posted: November 11, 2009 4:42 a.m.

Elmer Squires never earned his high school diploma.
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Rose City teacher wins excellence prize

By John Krupa
Posted: November 11, 2009 4:38 a.m.

Marquvise Curruth called it the minute Gov. Mike Beebe announced that an unnamed Rose City Middle School teacher would receive a prestigious national teaching award — and the $25,000 prize that comes with it.
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$10 million to lift job-training push

State launches career-planning site

By John Krupa
Posted: November 10, 2009 3:36 a.m.

The state is rolling out a $10 million expansion of the Arkansas Works program, an initiative aimed at linking Arkansans with career training and educational opportunities, Gov. Mike Beebe said Monday.
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Felsenthal watching water rise

Town already half underwater; Ouachita River to crest next week

By John Krupa
Posted: November 7, 2009 5:24 a.m.

Mike Nash has spent the past week watching the water rise.
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Ex-official urges higher GI levels

1st intelligence director argues manpower key in Afghan war

By John Krupa
Posted: November 4, 2009 4:42 a.m.

President Barack Obama should approve the request of the top commander in Afghanistan for more than 40,000 new troops to put down the insurgency, the nation’s former director of national intelligence said in Little Rock on Tuesday.
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Stolen hygiene items found

Trailer with tampons, other products located in Mississippi

By John Krupa
Posted: November 4, 2009 4:25 a.m.

Police have recovered some of the $474,000 in feminine hygiene and baby-care products stolen in Faulkner County last month.
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