Noel E. Oman

4 post-office branches in state still on closure list

Four Arkansas post-office branches or stations remain targeted for closure by the U.S. Postal Service, which has said it may lose $7.8 billion this year.
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Parking costs set to rise at airport

Added income to fund improvements

The state’s largest airport will boost the rates it charges for parking by as much as 33 percent to help pay for parking improvements worth more than $1 million.
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Airline halts plan to change jets

A plan by American Airlines to add mainline jet service to Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, has been scuttled before it ever got off the ground.
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LR creek natural filter for junk

Trash catchall that helps keep stream clear gets a fall cleaning

Trash from an area of central Little Rock that isn’t properly thrown away can wind up along a half-mile section of Swaggerty Creek in south Little Rock.
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State’s pedestrians face more danger than many

LR, PB highly hazardous for walkers, study says

Pedestrians in Arkansas metropolitan areas need to be extra careful crossing the street, according to a new study that found the state’s cities among the more dangerous places in the nation for pedestrians.
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FEMA unit sales create new doubts

Effect on market, oversight at issue

Auctions last month of mobile homes and travel trailers originally purchased for hurricane survivors but now stored in Hope yielded more than the millions of dollars successful bidders will pay the federal government.
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Hundreds in LR walk to promote tolerance

Hundreds of Arkansans joined in a walk Sunday afternoon in downtown Little Rock for what organizers say was a way to promote tolerance and understanding.
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Police shoot, kill knife-wielder

2 opened fire when LR man threatened grandma, officers say

A man with a history of mental problems used a knife to threaten family members before he was shot dead.
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Damages upheld in Wyeth suit

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a $2.75 million award in compensatory damages for a Little Rock woman who successfully sued drugmakers Wyeth and Upjohn in 2008, saying the companies’ hormone therapy drugs caused her breast cancer.
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Airline goes roomier for LR flights

American Airlines will reintroduce mainline jet service to the state’s largest airport next year after a seven-year hiatus.
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