Nancy Cole
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Recent Stories
$1 million given to Mount St. Mary
posted: 08/21/2009 6:08 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock couple has donated $1 million to Mount St. Mary Academy, a Catholic secondary school for girls in the city's Hillcrest neighborhood.
Rules left unaltered on turtles
posted: 08/21/2009 5:07 a.m. Comment 1
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission voted unanimously Thursday to leave unchanged state regulations governing the commercial harvest of wild, aquatic turtles but to investigate concerns about contaminants in turtles and the impact of harvests.
Snyder: No big fan of public option
posted: 08/19/2009 5:01 a.m. Comments 11
The presence or absence of a government-run insurance option in proposed health-care legislation is not a personal "deal breaker," U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder told a crowd of more than 1,100 people Tuesday at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
Clock ticking on reappraisals
posted: 08/14/2009 5:45 a.m. Discuss
Pulaski County homeowners who believe the assessor's office incorrectly valued their real estate have until Monday to file an appeal of their reappraised values.
Tree-planting firm in contempt again
posted: 08/06/2009 3:15 a.m. Discuss
An Arkansas-based tree-planting company has been held in contempt for a third time by a federal judge in Columbia, Tenn.
State ranked 47th in children's well-being
posted: 07/29/2009 2:55 a.m. Discuss
Arkansas lags behind all but three states, ranking 47th in children's health, education and economic well-being, according to a report released Tuesday by a national child-advocacy group.
Charter schools, state stir LR flap
posted: 07/24/2009 4:32 a.m. Discuss
An attorney for the Little Rock School District says the state has undermined the 1989 settlement agreement in the Pulaski County school desegregation case by approving open enrollment charter schools to operate in the county without addressing their impact on desegregation.
LR School Board OKs plan to spend stimulus funding
posted: 07/24/2009 4:09 a.m. Discuss
The Little Rock School Board voted unanimously Thursday in favor of plans for spending a little more than one-third of the $36 million in federal stimulus money that has been allocated to the state's largest school district over the next two years.
Faulkner County debates historic courthouse's future
posted: 07/22/2009 3:09 a.m. Discuss
Representatives from a historic preservation group met Tuesday with members of the Faulkner County Quorum Court's courthouse task force to discuss the future of the county's 1936 vintage courthouse at 801 Locust St.
Counties look for help as aquifer levels fall
posted: 07/18/2009 6:23 a.m. Discuss
Several northeast Arkansas conservation-district boards have asked the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission to designate the western portions of their counties as a "critical groundwater area." Clay, Craighead, Cross, Greene and Poinsett counties have submitted formal petitions, and St. Francis County plans to do so, said Crystal Phelps, an attorney with the commission.
