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In the six years Buck James has lead the Bryant football program, there's no team his Hornets have faced more than North Little Rock.

MOUNTAIN PINE 50, RECTOR 18

MOUNTAIN PINE 70, CUTTER MORNING STAR 6

To say Little Rock Southwest has had a rough go of things since playing its first varsity game last season would be underplaying the struggles the team really has endured.

Townsend, a Little Rock singer-songwriter with a new single due out later this month, performs a free show from 7-10 pm. Friday at Skinny J's.

Townsend, a Little Rock singer-songwriter with a new single due out later this month, performs a free show from 7-10 pm. Friday at Skinny J's.

Cliff (Prowse) & Susan (Erwin Prowse) are a married couple based in Little Rock who stay busy touring, farming, running their own businesses and holding regular jobs while entertaining audiences with a repertoire of 1,000 songs.

Data reported Tuesday by the Arkansas Department of Health continued to indicate a slowdown in the spread of the coronavirus even as the number of virus patients on ventilators rose to a new high for the third day in a row.

To raise others up, busy host Bobby Bones goes to great heights. Paula Hendrickson Growing up poor in Mountain Pine, Arkansas, taught Bobby Bones a lot about life. "My stepdad worked at the sawmill, and he hated his job," he recalls. "I never wanted to be someone who hates going to work." Thats good, considering he juggles several jobs. In addition to his Nashville-based syndicated radio show and podcast, hes a published author, American Idol mentor and past winner of Dancing with the Stars....

OPINION | REX NELSON: A history of hospitality by Rex Nelson | Today at 1:47 a.m. By the 1930s, the era known as the Big Cut--which had begun in the 1880s as northern-owned companies moved into Arkansas to harvest virgin timber--was ending. In the pine-covered hills of southwest Arkansas, that meant a loss of jobs. Montgomery County had a population of 12,455 in the 1910 census. By the 1960 census, that number had dropped to 5,370. The closure of sawmills and the onset of the Great Depression l...