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The annual Memorial Day Ceremony is scheduled for Monday morning at 11 at the Mountain Home Plaza 2000 across from the Baxter County Courthouse. The North

The Scholarship Committee of Mid-South Engineering Co. recently selected Nancy Coffman and Julia Jett to each receive a $6,000 scholarship from the Roy and Betty Murphy Family Endowment Fund.

Change is scary and exciting for all concerned.

Saturday saw the second of three event-filled days of fellowship and flight at the Pine Bluff Regional Airport-Grider Field. Despite inclement weather filling the skies across the country, intrepid aviators winged their way to Pine Bluff, dodging storms from as far away as Seattle.

You can learn a lot from a movie or a television show. For instance, "All The Presidents Men" taught us to "follow the money" to get to the bottom of political corruption. HBOs cult classic, "The Wire," added "all the pieces matter" to the previous maxim. In recent weeks, Pine Bluff has witnessed several seemingly unrelated events: the conclusion of the Rodrick Morris trial, an ethics violation finding from the Arkansas State Ethics Commission, and the tab...

Go Forward Pine Bluff spent $103,000 on its two attempts to extend the sales tax that helps fund its initiatives, while the Pine Bluff chapter of the NAACP -- the only organized opposition to the tax plan -- spent less than $11,000 on the two campaigns, a greater than 9-to-1 spending disparity.

It was 1990, and the states first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton had an idea. Ron Hart, a brilliant scientist at the National Center for Toxicological Research near Pine Bluff, had told her about residential high schools such as the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.

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For the second-straight year, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff high jumper Caleb Snowden will compete at nationals.