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New Orleans-based Phelps Dunbar said Tuesday that it will merge with the smaller Farris Bobango of Memphis, Tennessee next month to form one of the regions largest law firms.

One of the nice things about living in a small state such as Arkansas is that you deal with a lot of the same people through the years. I met Jeff Hankins more than four decades ago when I was sports editor of the Daily Siftings Herald at Arkadelphia. Jeff was a high school student in Pine Bluff and worked part-time in the sports department at the Pine Bluff Commercial.

One of the nice things about living in a small state such as Arkansas is that you deal with a lot of the same people through the years. I met Jeff Hankins more than four decades ago when I was sports editor of the Daily Siftings Herald at Arkadelphia. Jeff was a high school student in Pine Bluff and worked part-time in the sports department at the Pine Bluff Commercial.

The project would not only help preserve and grow the population of the endangered species, it would be a tourism draw for the area.

Arkansas State University is planning to build a conservation and research center for the most critically endangered wolf species.

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