by - August 20, 2012 11:26 pm
The Fort Smith Housing Authority (FSHA) faced a small but hostile audience Monday night (Aug. 20) at the Bluff Avenue Baptist Church. The controversy: FSHA wishes to add 36 units…
by - August 20, 2012 5:53 pm
EUREKA SPRINGS — Jazz trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis, a member of the famous New Orleans family of jazz musicians with the same name, will prove his place in the family lineage when…
by - August 20, 2012 5:47 pm
Most of the damage inflicted on the U.S. labor market by the recession is reversible, according to Federal Reserve research, leaving open the possibility that additional stimulus will be effective…
by - August 20, 2012 5:35 pm
About 1 in 2 doctors are burned out, showing signs of emotional exhaustion and little interest in work as patient loads increase, U.S. researchers found. Doctors working in emergency, family…
by - August 20, 2012 5:16 pm
Cash-strapped customers who rely on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. low prices year round are getting a little extra help from the retail giant this Christmas as the company’s layaway program has…
by - August 20, 2012 5:09 pm
With classes starting this week at Arkansas Tech University-Ozark Campus, two newly appointed program chairs will be at the helm of the campus’ two nursing programs. Theresa Fontaine of Alma…
by - August 20, 2012 3:49 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Pat Benatar is a hard-rocking vocal powerhouse whose songs served as anthems for angsty teenagers in the 1980s. Those youngsters are all grown up, and other generations have…
by - August 20, 2012 3:15 pm
The deadline for additional signatures for a November campaign to raise the state’s severance tax will pass and the effort will come to an end for now. Sheffield Nelson said…
by - August 20, 2012 1:44 pm
Augusta National Golf Club admitted former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Darla Moore, a partner at private investment firm Rainwater Inc., as its first female members. “We are…
by - August 20, 2012 1:20 pm
A few years ago, Donna Feyen read a book that had a decent plot, but there was so much offensive material woven throughout the text that she had a hard…
by - August 20, 2012 12:50 pm
The temperatures were up in July, but not so much for enplanements out of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) and the Fort Smith Regional Airport. However, Fort Smith numbers…
by - August 20, 2012 11:13 am
Despite a relative slowdown during June, regional hospitality tax collections remain positive, with January-June collections up more than 8% in Fort Smith and up almost 6% in Van Buren. Employment…
by - August 19, 2012 7:47 pm
FORT SMITH — The second annual Fest of Ale was held Friday night (Aug. 17) to benefit the Girls Inc. Fort Smith. Guests gathered at the Holiday Inn ballroom were…
by - August 19, 2012 7:06 pm
Let’s travel once more into the most dangerous ground in today’s political environment, which would be the damn-near abandoned beautiful valley of calm in which compromise, moderation and careful deliberation…
by - August 19, 2012 6:45 pm
Television anchor Daren Bobb pulled an old saying attributed to a college professor – “Look to your left. Look to your right, because one of you won’t be here next…
by - August 19, 2012 4:40 pm
Record-high corn prices should be sending a clear message to policy makers in Washington: Requiring people to put corn-based fuel in their gas tanks is a bad idea. Since 2005,…
by - August 18, 2012 10:04 pm
A large crowd gathered Saturday night (Aug. 18) at the Fort Smith home of Jenny and Josh Kilgore to raise awareness and funds for the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of…
by - August 18, 2012 4:27 pm
An unidentified farm in southwestern Indiana is withdrawing cantaloupe from the marketplace following a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 141 people and killed two in 20 U.S. states, federal regulators…
by - August 17, 2012 5:31 pm
U.S. feedlots bought 10% fewer young cattle in July as feed costs climbed after the most-severe drought in 56 years scorched grain crops. Feedlots bought 1.922 million head of cattle…
by - August 17, 2012 3:27 pm
VAN BUREN — It was a food extravaganza at Van Buren High School on Thursday (Aug. 16), as hundreds gathered for the 13th annual Taste of Crawford County benefiting Court Appointed…
