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Earlier this month, just a few days before Rick Stockdell retired from his post as professor, Lemke Journalism Schools director of Undergraduate Studies and head of the broadcast sequence at the University of Arkansas, a few lone boxes stood stacked up in one corner.

Earlier this month, just a few days before Rick Stockdell retired from his post as professor, Lemke Journalism Schools director of Undergraduate Studies and head of the broadcast sequence at the University of Arkansas, a few lone boxes stood stacked up in one corner.

Earlier this month, just a few days before Rick Stockdell retired from his post as professor, Lemke Journalism Schools director of Undergraduate Studies and head of the broadcast sequence at the University of Arkansas, a few lone boxes stood stacked up in one corner.

Year after year, the organizers and performers of the Northwest Arkansas Gridiron Show come together to poke fun at the stranger-than-fiction events covered in the news.

Four Arkansas voting laws formally struck down as illegal this week should be allowed to go into effect until the state Supreme Court can decide whether the measures pass constitutional muster, government lawyers argued Thursday.

The legal challenge to four new state voter laws saw its first day in court Tuesday, with the League of Women Voters and other plaintiffs claiming the laws deliberately make voting harder -- and sometimes impossible -- for voters that are poor, minorities or have certain health problems.

The legal challenge to four new state voter laws saw its first day in court Tuesday, with the League of Women Voters and other plaintiffs claiming the laws deliberately make voting harder -- and sometimes impossible -- for voters that are poor, minorities or have certain health problems.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday denied claims -- at least for the moment -- that the state is lawsuit-proof in a ruling over litigation by the League of Women Voters, immigrant advocates and some voters that challenges the legality of new voter laws.

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday denied claims -- at least for the moment -- that the state is lawsuit-proof in a ruling over litigation by the League of Women Voters, immigrant advocates and some voters that challenges the legality of new voter laws.

A remarkably preserved civil war-era estate in Fayeteville’s historic district serves as headquarters for the Washington County Historical Society.