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Stories by Nikki Wentling
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LR host of 27th sunrise service
The sun had already risen behind a blanket of clouds Sunday when a combination of four choirs sang the first hymn at the Little Rock Community Easter Sunrise S…
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Veterans, colleges talk support for education
Representatives from nearly two dozen Arkansas colleges learned at a workshop Friday about the challenges facing student veterans and military service members …
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Grocer takes down man in taco theft
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Foes of HB1228 gather in LR
About 700 people gathered in Little Rock on Sunday opposing an Arkansas bill they say would allow businesses to refuse service to gays and transgender people.
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Hurt GI rouses, signs up for trials
Arkansas National Guard Spc. Samuel Scudder returned from a deployment in Afghanistan last year with a knee injury, nerve damage and hearing loss.
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U.S. OKs shifting 30 acres to state for home for vets
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has approved transferring approximately 30 acres to the state to build a new veterans nursing hom…
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Military families' fund law changed
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed legislation Tuesday that takes away limitations on who can receive aid from the state's Military Family Relief Trust Fund, which was…
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Veterans home growing 'victory garden'
Theresa Moore always kept a garden at her home on Park Street in Fayetteville, where she lived with her husband for decades. As she got older, she switched fro…
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For Run for Fallen, each mile is a salute
From memory, Chief Master Sgt. Bubba Beason can list off each of the 143 Arkansas service members honored in the state's annual Run for the Fallen, each mile o…
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State VA to start hunt for new deputy leader
The newly appointed director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for a new deputy director after Charles Johnson, who held the position f…
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Vets-event organizer drops plans for parade
DannaKay Duggar remembers watching the evening news with her father, a longstanding nightly ritual, when American troops returned home from the Vietnam War in …
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Richard Bell
Richard "Dick" Bell, the state's first agriculture secretary and a past president and chief executive officer of Riceland Foods Inc., died Friday in Stuttgart …
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Police: Man spit in officer's mouth
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Air Force to combine recruit offices
A new type of Air Force recruiting center that will consolidate existing offices into one regional facility will open in central Arkansas in fiscal 2016, accor…
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Education notebook
Online readiness tests start off well
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Women held after crash outside club
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Air Force outlines missions
Four commanders from Little Rock Air Force Base gave an overview of their current missions and outlined the base's transition to more modern aircraft during th…
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2013 murder suspect captured, sent to LR
A suspect wanted for nearly two years in the slaying of a man at a Little Rock trailer park was arrested in San Diego and extradited to Little Rock on Monday, …
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LR man, 19, struck by bullet at party
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Will fix pay flubs, say VA hospitals
Two Veterans Affairs health care systems serving Arkansas veterans will work to correct mistakes discovered during a recent inspection of how they pay emergenc…
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Parolee accused of hunting at night
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Yoga teachers praise new law on schools
Cindee Joslin, the owner of a school in Bentonville that teaches yoga instructors, was preparing for her first training session when she received a letter from…
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VA report: 48 claims' dates in LR altered
A surprise inspection of the Little Rock veterans benefits center revealed staff members were marking overlooked claims -- many almost 2 years old -- to make t…
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Vets-home low bid of $19.1M fits budget
A Little Rock-based construction company has submitted the apparent low bid of approximately $19 million to build the state's second veterans nursing home.
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VA director for Ozarks system to retire
The head of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs health care system that serves Northwest Arkansas and parts of Missouri and Oklahoma is retiring next month…
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Grammy-winning Jazz Age musician
Clark Terry, a pioneering jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and jazz educator who relocated to Pine Bluff late in life, died Saturday at age 94.
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Man hospitalized with bullet to back Police are investigating after a man was shot in the back early Sunday at a Little Rock home.
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After 64 years, Clinton buries GI back from war
Geraldean Johnson, 87, stared at the flag-draped casket holding the remains of Cpl. C.G. Bolden, her former husband, as a U.S. Army honor guard fired a 12-gun …
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Vets' groups share ideas for state
Representatives from approximately 30 military and veterans organizations gathered at the state Capitol on Thursday to share their individual goals with lawmak…
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MLK's niece gives view in LR
Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and a civil-rights and anti-abortion activist, called on people at a Little Rock church on Wednesday to stand …
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NLR man accused of stabbing rival
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Arctic air hits state; officials urge caution
Arctic air moved into Arkansas on Sunday, setting up conditions for a winter storm of freezing rain, sleet and snow in much of the state Sunday night and most …
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2 killed, 4 injured in highway wrecks
One person was killed and three others were injured Saturday when an SUV hit a stopped car on Interstate 30, according to Arkansas State Police.
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LR man charged in school-lot shooting
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C-130s, facility in budget plan, Guard says
Arkansas Air National Guard officials confirmed Wednesday that the state's Air Guard units would receive additional aircraft and funding for a new facility und…
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For Smith facility in budget plan, Guard says
LITTLE ROCK -- Arkansas Air National Guard officials confirmed Wednesday the state's Air Guard units would receive additional aircraft and money for a new faci…
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LR man, 38, held in relative's rape
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Liaison, 'champion of veterans,' retires
While serving as U.S. Sen. John Boozman's military and veterans liaison, retired Lt. Col. Steve Gray presented more than 800 Arkansas veterans or their familie…
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State military chief takes control
Maj. Gen. Mark Berry formally assumed command as the state's adjutant general Saturday when Gov. Asa Hutchinson handed him the Arkansas National Guard flag.
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Missing since '68, soldier led home
Hundreds of people are expected to gather Saturday to honor a Hope soldier who was killed during the Vietnam War and will soon be returning home.
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Court ruling in meth case starts push to alter law
The Arkansas Court of Appeals decision to uphold the conviction and imprisonment of a De Queen woman who used methamphetamine while pregnant has some wanting t…
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Police say 8 drugs found inside SUV
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Court: Infant got meth via umbilical cord
In an opinion issued Wednesday, the Arkansas Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of a De Queen woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after her son w…
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Volunteers hit street for biennial count of homeless
Twenty University of Arkansas at Little Rock students, clipboards in hand, gathered under the Broadway Bridge after sunset Tuesday to count the homeless.
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Jacksonville man dies in truck wreck
A Jacksonville man who died in a car wreck Sunday is accused of attempting to steal a trailer shortly before the crash, according to the Pulaski County Sheriff…
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State agency for vets tables name change
Officials at the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs are rethinking whether to seek legislation to change the agency's name this session, a plan that was i…
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France honors 2 for WWII service
On D-Day more than 70 years ago, U.S. Army Sgt. Tommy Gooch stormed Utah Beach in Normandy, France. Just off the coast, John Arnold worked in the boiler room a…
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VA to open bidding for vets-home project
The $24 million project to build a new veterans nursing home in North Little Rock will start the bidding process next week, Arkansas Department of Veterans Aff…
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Men attacked with chair leg near club
