Fort Smith

Tiger is sorry

Tiger Woods made this big speech today about how he is the only one to blame for having extramarital sex with all those women and strippers and whores, and that…

Franklin County groups focus on ‘actionable’ items

story information submitted by officials with the Arkansas Tech University-Ozark campus Approximately 42 people met Feb. 12 in the Conference Center at Arkansas Tech University’s Ozark Campus to collaborate with…

Generation mix

The new boss is NOT necessarily the same as the old boss.

‘Dearly Beloved’ opens 2010 Fort Smith Little Theatre season

The small town drama set in Fayro, Texas, includes glamour nails, deviled eggs and wedding-day craziness.

Chaffee provides more land for Greenwood schools

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] The Fort Chaffee Redevelopment Authority voted Thursday (Feb. 18) to set aside another 28 acres for Greenwood Public Schools. The FCRA recently donated 22 acres…

Arkansas Supreme Court rules against Jeff Barrows

The nasty and public feud between former Fort Smith police officer Jeff Barrows and Fort Smith Police Chief Kevin Lindsey and the city of Fort Smith may be at a…

Adam & Eats: A House Divided — Part two

Be prepared for zeppelins in a fog, shingles with a shimmy and two restaurants that Adam says are true gems.

Area fire departments get federal funds

Federal funds totaling more than $164,000 will soon flow to area fire departments from a grant from the Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) program. Arkansas fire…

DeLay delays 3rd District announcement

Gunner DeLay says he will issue a press advisory Monday (Feb. 22) about the possibility of his entry into the GOP primary race for the 3rd Congressional District. DeLay, a…

United Way Golf Tournament hosted by Arvest Bank

Registration deadline is May 3rd. Location: Fianna Hills Country Club Type: Four-person scramble format Time: Noon- Lunch with 1 p.m. Shotgun Start Entry Fee: $400 per team ( Entry fee…

Fort Smith enplanements up in January

So far, so good. Maybe. January enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport totaled 5,496, up 0.8% over January 2009. However, comparisons with 2009 should come with a caveat that…

Regional bankruptcies and incorporations

Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher….

Hurst joins Barron Mortgage

Jennifer Hurst has joined the Fort Smith office of Barron Mortgage as a loan officer. Hurst has more than 12 years of banking and mortgage origination experience. She has served…

Legal folks = bad drivers

A new study says lawyers and judges are accident prone.

Wal-Mart reports income boost, but holiday sales falter

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported Thursday morning (Feb. 18) that its fiscal year 2009 net income was up 6.9% over the 2008 period, but the company said fiscal first quarter 2010…

The Wolfman is Michael J. Fox on steroids

Peter pans Wolfman because the movie fails to maintain the suspenseful element of fear — unlike the IRS.

Scene by Carson: News flash!: Green means go, red means stop

This will be shocking to some, but rearview mirrors are for the safe use of a vehicle and not for grooming.

I-49 section gets $5 million; far less than requested

Folks at the Arkansas Highway & Transportation Department are a little puzzled as to what to do with $5 million they received from the feds for a section of Interstate…

3rd District race tempting for Green and his belief in the system

story by Marla Cantrell [email protected] Rep. Rick Green, R-Van Buren, is still considering a run for the 3rd Congressional District. Green has thought about politics for many years. When he…

HMA exec: Health care reform likely to be incremental

A corporate boss over Summit Medical hospital in Van Buren and Sparks Health System in Fort Smith says national health care reform is likely to come in incremental changes rather…