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High school seniors from Pine Bluff and Watson Chapel were honored May 4 by the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Scholarship Program, Delta Omega Omega Chapter.
A jury in the Second Division of 11th West Circuit Court found Rodrick Morris guilty of 79 of 82 counts of accepting city funds from a now-deceased Pine Bluff Urban Renewal Agency executive director for asbestos work he did not perform.
Compassionate Friends set lighting event
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Perhaps city officials were expecting to be handcuffed and led away. Mayor Shirley Washington and Chandra Griffin, head of the city's Urban Renewal Agency, were called to Little Rock recently to answer for some financial irregularities identified in a state legislative audit. The Urban Renewal attorney had said the going could get rough as the two tried to explain what happened back in the Bluff. That turned out to be not the case, but we should not confuse the lack of harsh words with the seriousness of this little get-together.