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Osama Bin Laden is dead, dead, dead

Osama Bin Laden, the head of al-Qaida and the organizer of 9-11 is dead. A U.S. Navy Seal team, led by the CIA, found and killed Bin Laden on Sunday…

Artists from three states gather in Fort Smith

5×5 Artisans Squared gala helps support Van Buren’s Center For Art & Education.

Fort Smith terrorist?

Jack Moseley is searched in Ireland for explosives.

There they were, talking core leadership principles like being proactive, seeking first to understand, the importance of responsibility and accountability, being gracious in winning and losing and establishing and then…

Beebe seeks federal help for storm damage

Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has sent a letter to President Obama requesting a major disaster declaration for 57 Arkansas counties impacted by severe storms, tornadoes and floods beginning April 14,…

Charleston Cruisers Car Show part of city’s first Springfest

The 52 car entries helped raise money for Charleston High School’s Project Graduation 2011.

Citizens Bank preps for 125th anniversary

During the same month the first Coca-Cola — laced with cocaine — was served in Atlanta, B.J. Brown opened a bank in the 700 block of Main Street in Van…

Arkansas banks expand, announce earnings, dividends

Editor’s note: Roby Brock, with our content partner Talk Business, wrote this report. He can be reached at [email protected] There was a variety of banking news reported on Friday afternoon…

Circuit Clerk Ken Blevins target of harassment, retaliation allegations

Complaints against Sebastian County Circuit Clerk Ken Blevins of alleged sexual harassment and retaliation are detailed in reports and grievance filings by some employees of the Circuit Clerk’s office. The…

Questions raised with new Arkansas House video, audio rules

Editor’s note: The following story is a collaborative effort among Roby Brock (Talk Business), Matt Campbell (Blue Hog Report), Michael Tilley (The City Wire), and Jason Tolbert (The Tolbert Report)….

Adam & Eats: Mr. Shark

“Mama Linda” does it right, from the food quality and variety, to the customer service.

Fort Smith mail processing to move to Fayetteville

The U.S. Postal Service announced late Thursday (April 28) its decision to consolidate mail processing operations from Fort Smith to the Northwest Arkansas Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC) in Fayetteville….

Louisiana Crawfish Boil

Prepared and cooked by Jennifer and Tom Kelly. All proceeds benefit Girls Inc . For more information or to purchase tickets call Girls Inc at 479-782-0375. $35.00 per family or…

Fest of Ale

Girls Inc is having a fun summer fund raiser at the Holiday Inn Ballroom July 8th . Beer from all over the world will be sampled much like a…

Montemayor captures Texas press awards

Candise Montemayor of Fort Smith, who works as a public information technician in the Public Relations Office at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, has won two awards in…

Mulberry in May delivers stars and madness

by Connie Las Schneider May is a perfect month to explore the Mulberry River area in Franklin County. The water is cool and inviting, the scenery alive with growth and…

Fite loses another Supreme Court ruling

Thursday’s (April 28) Arkansas Supreme Court ruling is likely the end of the legal road in Tom Fite’s challenge of a legal decision that tossed him off the ballot in…

Fort Smith board members comment on petition decision

A majority of the Fort Smith Board of Directors support the decision of Fort Smith City Clerk Sherri Gard to find insufficient the petitions calling for an election on enactment…

ABF faces ‘messy’ road to profitability in 2011

One of the bigger stories this week in the national trucking industry centered on the surprising poor first quarter earnings report released Monday (April 25) by Fort Smith-based Arkansas Best…