Arkansas Times
Today in Arkansas: Another mass killing
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- Today in Arkansas: Another mass killing
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- 5:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News on Monday, Nov. 6 includes response to the mass shooting in Texas. Another study finds tax bill favors wealthy. UA Board to take up Athletic Department. Court asked to stop execution. Earle Schools taken over by state. LR cop hurt in hit and run. Tom Cotton hits the New Yorker. Sarah Sanders hits SNL.
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- Today in Arkansas: Execution barriers fall
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- 5:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News on Friday, Nov. 3: The governor and a judge decline to stop Jack Greene's execution next week. State official warns about 'bathroom bill' damage to tourism. Trump goes on a tear against Hillary. Kids' health insurance up in air. State waits on Medicaid waivers. Bill and Hillary coming. New group faults LR leadership. How fast can a UA alum strip out of a wetsuit?
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- Today in Arkansas: Tax cut time
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- 7:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The news on Thursday, Nov. 2: Republicans roll out a tax bill but important details remain to be filled in. State income lagging. ACtion in two courts as execution nears. More allegations over slave labor in NWA. Motive developed in Sheridan teen murder case. Plight of a homeless family. Tysons give $1.5 million for UA archive of TV footage. Supreme Court bars testimony about lap dance from rape trial. ABC chair departs from Trump administration.
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- Today in Arkansas: Tax bill tangles
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- 6:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Disputed details delay a tax cut bill in Washington. Also: Hearing on abortion ban; Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a bad day; UA law prof enmeshed in Trump judicial nominee fight; signup time for health marketplace; Tyson gift to UA TV archives; Jim Hendren ends unpaid labor deal; Cotton uses terror attack for politics against immigrants; Scribd finds Arkansas best-seller.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trick or treat with Trump
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- 5:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- No new indictments but plenty of fallout from Trump-Russia probe on Tuesday, Oct. 31. John Kelley disgraces himself. Arkansas congressmen stand mute. One-year anniversary of infamous New York Times fail. Big security investment at Arkansas prison. Story on Sen. Jim Hendren use of unpaid labor grows. Nobody wants Albert Pike statue. Asa off to Asia. What's the candy at your house?
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- Today in Arkansas: Indictments and a plea bargain for 3 on Trump team
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- 6:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The indictment of Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort was big news, but maybe bigger was disclosure of a plea bargain with a former Trump campaigner who has admitted dealing with Russian interests on things such as hacked email. Also: Transgender troops safe for time being; Arkansas speed limits going up; lawsuits over opioid addiction; senator touched by slave labor suits; lawsuit targets senator's tax break; Entergy goes solar; Democrat announces for 4th District: a nonstop from LIT to D.C.; a way out of LR parking tickets.
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- Today in Arkansas: Crime in Little Rock
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- 5:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News from Arkansas on Friday, Oct. 27: A felony drug/gun bust nets a city-backed community youth worker; lessons for LR from Amazon; debate on UA tenure policy grows; attorney general opens NW Ark. office; Arkansas landlord/tenant law unhealthy; NLR School Board screws up; French HIll deep in Russian document story; Jason Rapert v. the Friendly Atheist; LR Pride Fest.
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- Today in Arkansas: Tuxedo Tom backs banks over consumers
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- 4:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News in Arkansas on Wednesday, Oct. 25 includes Tom Cotton's appearance in tuxedo to approve anti-consumer legislation that helps credit card companies. Also: Leslie Rutledge loses bid to block teen's abortion; right-winger Jan Morgan build staff to run against Asa; new bike trail in Hot Springs; another homicide in SWLR; mercy sought for Jack Greene; speed limits going up; Midwest catches up to Arkansas with realignment of uneducated white voters.
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- Today in Arkansas: Corker v. Trump
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- 4:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A Twitter war between Donald Trump and Bob Corker continues the high-level discourse in Washington. Also: Trump disrespects military widow and a GOP candidate says same-sex marriage is worse than slavery. Crime and policing in the news in Little Rock. A debate on tenure policy change at University of Arkansas. Governor catches flak on Dental Board appointment. Trent Ganer comes up with anti-gay demagoguery. Layoffs announced at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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- Today in Arkansas:: Sexual predators on notice
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- 4:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Is there a Weinstein effect, a rising tide against sexual harassment and abuse. Stories about other offenders suggest as much. Also on Monday, Oct. 23: Potlatch acquires Deltic; Arkansas ranks low on gay rights; freeway phobia spreads to Texas; was Auburn Bret Bielema's last straw; money and the race for LR mayor; a gambler goes down; DearLittleRock.org, an answer to city PR gimmick.
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- Today in Arkansas: A budget for the rich
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- 5:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The Senate moved last night toward a budget that will slash spending on Medicare and Medicaid, increase the deficit, but give a windfall to the wealthy. An unseemly debate over proper respect for war dead obscures real question. Unemployment rate stays low. Debate on executing the mentally ill. Another killing on Col. Glenn. FOI suit seeks accountability of Love Little Rock campaign. Leslie Rutledge now goes to Texas to block legal abortion.
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- Today in Arkansas: Little Rock rejects Amazon
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- 6:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Little Rock decides to shun a pitch to Amazon for a new HQ, opting instead for a Love Little Rock PR campaign. Supreme Court ends birth certificate discrimination against same-sex parents. George W. Bush makes a lot of sense, including on race relations, a local topic as well. UA gets more sports money for classrooms. What if Tom Cotton goes to CIA? Arrest in mass club shooting. Feisty April Ryan in LR to speak tonight.
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- Today in Arkansas: Health coverage? Who knows?
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- 5:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A change of course by Donald Trump only adds further to confusion over future of Obamacare and its progeny in Arkansas. Also on Wednesday, Oct. 18: Houston Nutt settles with Ole Miss; environmental group complains of agri pollution of drinking water; state offers cash for computer course excellence; LR prepares pitch for Amazon's HQ2; if Mississippi can remove Confederate name from schools, how about LR?; The Me, Too movement hits legislatures. What about Arkansas?
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- Today in Arkansas: Asa tells highway lobby hands off general revenue
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- 4:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Gov. Asa Hutchinson declared state general revenues are off-limits for highway construction money. Too much harm to other services, tax cut plans. James Lee Witt corrects Trump on disaster grade. Election Integrity commissioner dies in LR. Business lobby gears up to pass damage lawsuit limits. Applications aplenty to grow and sell medical marijuana. Wendell Griffen calls out cop on Black LIves Matter. Judge order state testimony on anti-LGBT law.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trumpcare troubles
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- 7:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Insurance premiums are skyrocketing because of Donald Trump. What next? Also in the news Monday, Oct. 16: Tom Cotton mentioned for CIA; bad as Trump is, Pence might be worse; French Hill's idea of compassion; gangnam LR; gun permit rules out; UALR studies football; Yellville keeps terrorizing turkeys; another Fort Smith lawmaker getting fat on tax money; a bar with a view coming to downtown.
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- Today in Arkansas: Court puts hold on anti-abortion law
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- 7:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A new anti-abortion law won't take effect in Arkansas while Planned Parenthood appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. Also on Friday, Oct. 13; Trumpcare revealed; Puerto Rico still suffers; Little Rock officials go ballistic over rap show; threat closes Dover schools; lawsuit in real estate agent's death; taxpayer subsidy of business lobby revealed; if we're going to blame Hillary for everything else, why not the Hogs, too?
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- Today in Arkansas: Tales of Trump and neo-Nazis
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- 6:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- More moronic news from Washington on Thursday, Oct. 12, including Trump's health care directive and the tragedy in Puerto Rico. Also, white supremacists in Arkansas on arrest blotters; a once-confessed murderer goes free; LR mayor gets cover from city attorney; Walmart runs into a homestate hangup on recruiting trail; Houston Nutt back in court; State Fair opens; Rush Limbaugh gets something right.
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- Today in Arkansas: Slave labor and a white supremacist bust
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- 5:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Wednesday, Oct. 11 is National Coming Out Day. It gets better, even if the run of the news doesn't. Slave labor in chicken industry alleged in lawsuit. Trump's junk science on birth control. To stand or not to stand? Big gun/drug bust nabs white supremacists. PSC chair raps Perry's coal plan. Boy Scouts welcome girls.
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- Today in Arkansas: Real Housewives of D.C.
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- 7:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Tabloid-style Trump tiffs, from dueling wives to demeaning nicknames, continue to mount up, but his damaging designs on health coverage and Russian election meddling are the big news. Also: A gun nut Republican announces potential challenged of Asa Hutchinson; details on man killed in LR cop confrontation; Supreme court to get case on gay discrimination law; Comcast ramps up LR Internet service; Arkansas embarrassed again, this time by favorite Halloween candy. Also: Some resistance ideas.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump TV
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- 5:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The reality show presidency dominates news on Monday, Oct. 9 -- Korea, pollution, immigration, Iran. Tom Cotton loves it. Also: a Pence national anthem publicity stunt; two officer-involved deaths in Arkansas; judge probes other officials in lawsuit; a big lottery winner; the sad state of Hog football.
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- Today in Arkansas: Court gives taxpayers a win
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- 6:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Arkansas news on Thursday, Oct. 5: Ark. Supreme Court invalidates legislative pork barrel scheme. Parole Board refuses clemency for Jack Greene. Ex-judge plea bargains fraud case. Tom Cotton spoils for military action against Iran. House votes break for rich, pain for poor. French Hill is the NRA favorite in the House as gun control suddenly gets a high profile. A county judge rethinks vacation in county vehicle. Arkies win record bed bug judgment.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump trips up in Puerto Rico
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- 5:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A tone-deaf Donald Trump visited Puerto Rico today. Other news on Tuesday, Oct. 3: GOP plans to save children's health insurance at cost to older people; deficits are now OK, Repubs say; search still on for motives in Vegas massacre; Fayetteville readies corporate welfare for TV show; state revenue flat; plea change set in ex-judge's federal case; LR City Board hypocrites on campaign ordinance.
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- Today in Arkansas: 58 dead in Las Vegas mass shooting
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- 6:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Arkansas politicians have little to offer beyond the usual "thoughts and prayers" to news of the 58 killed and hundreds injured by a mass shooting in Las Vegas. Certainly not gun control. The human tragedy in Puerto Rico lingers, to Donald Trump's discomfort. NFL players booed even when they stand for the National Anthem. Clemency hearing set for condemned Jack Greene. Russ Racop promises to shake up LR City Board race. Arkansas is an outlier on drop in teen pregnancy rate. Could an absence of sex ed have something to do with it?
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- Today in Arkansas: Tax plan pivot after defeat of Obamacare repeal
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- 7:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News in Arkansas on Wednesday, Sept. 27. Gov. Asa Hutchinson sad about failure of Obamacare repeal, but not thousands of beneficiaries. Trump pivots to tax plan while Puerto Rico suffers. Alabama nominates a wackjob for Senate. Judge strikes down Arkansas anti-panhandling law. Georgia profs sue over campus carry. 60 years from Satchmo to Kaepernick shows continuing white discomfort with outspoken black people.
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- Today in Arkansas: Another health bill defeat
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- 7:13
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Opposition beats back another Obamacare repeal bill. Also in the news on Tuesday, Sept. 26: Trump turns to tax cutting, if he ever gets over the NFL. Jerry Jones finds a third way on Anthem protests. Central High counter-punches. Little Rock mayoral politics. Voter ID laws do work to suppress minority votes. News on the Trader Joe/Costco front in Little Rock.
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- Today in Arkansas:: Civil rights, Central High and the NFL
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- 6:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- News in Arkansas on Monday, Sept. 25 includes a program on the 60th anniversary of the Central High desegregation crisis. The heroes have cautionary words. Race reverberates through the Trump-NFL dispute and a white supremacist meeting at a Conway coffee shop. Elsewhere: The fight to repeal Obamacare; why Hillary might be right about women's vote; a North Little Rock develpment; tighter security at the airport; Internet sleuthing targets Arkie in Charlottesville violence.
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- Today in Arkansas: McCain says no
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- 6:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News on Friday, Sept. 22 includes Sen. John McCain's declaration of opposition to the Graham-Cassidy health bill -- good news for Arkansas. ACLU says 60th anniversary of school crisis is no time to 'celebrate.' Prisons still growing. Martha Shoffner out of prison. Police detail officer shooting of unarmed man. Highway 10 traffic plan announced. Fayetteville civil rights ordinance survives hearing. Jobs on the line at UA game in Texas.
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- Today in Arkansas: Dire warnings about health legislation
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- 6:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News in Arkansas on Wednesday, Sept. 20 includes mounting disagreement with Gov. Asa Hutchinson that health legislation he favors won't harm Arkansans. Also: Leslie Rutledge goes missing in bipartisan probe of opioid industry; another legislator heads to the lobby; what Paula Jones could mean to Donald Trump; another suspicious prison death; balance of power struggle at legislature with Game and Fish; a nice piece of news at ASU.
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- Today in Arkansas: Asa joins bandwagon to kill Obamacare
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- 7:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- News in Arkansas on Tuesday, Sept. 19 includes Gov. Asa Hutchinson's endorsement of latest Obamacare repeal legislation, one that most predict would throw millions off health coverage. Also: Trump threatens destruction of North Korea and rejects facts on benefits of immigration; state loses again in suit to disclose execution drug information; Larry Crane announces end of Pulaski clerk tenure; Bank of Ozarks plans big LR HQ; Jason Rapert riles his opponent; tensions break out on 60th observance of school desegregation.
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- Today in Arkansas: Medical marijuana and Trumpcare
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- 5:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Arkansas news on Monday, Sept. 18 includes a rush for medical marijuana business permits and peril for Arkansas in the latest Obamacare repeal effort in the U.S. Senate. Also: Huck TV lands Trump; a 60th anniversary of school crisis poses uncomfortable questions; Doris Wright Radio; dark money in Bentonville school election, arrow hits teen in city park.
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- Arkansas Times Live Stream
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- 0:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Today in Arkansas: Legislature rejects bipartisan effort to study race relations
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Your headlines for September 15, 2017: legislators rejected a bipartisan effort to create a temporary legislative subcommittee to study race relations in the state, Walmart plans to build new HQ in Bentonville, AR unemployment up a tick while still being near a record low, three inmates injured in disturbance at Cummins unit and the State Board of Education approves three more charter schools for Little Rock.
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- Chef Marc cooks for Pig & Swig
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- 7:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Chef Marc Guizol at the Capital Hotel in Little Rock walks us through his flamed pork belly with local black-eyed peas recipe he'll be cooking up for the 2017 Pig & Swig event.
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- Today in Arkansas: Trump's mixed messages on DACA
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- 3:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Headlines for September 14, 2017: Little Rock school activists announce events for 60th anniversary of Central High crisis, mixed messages sent on DACA after Trump meets with top Democrats and an interview with a DACA recipient.
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- Today in Arkansas: Womack on deck for House Budget Committee
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- 4:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Headlines for September 13, 2017: Trump nominates Boozman staffer, Chris Caldwell, for Delta Regional Authority federal co-chair, former Garland Co. Admin. Asst. pleads guilty to making $162K in fraudulent credit card charges, Womack considered favorite for House Budget Committee, Alice Walton creates non-profit to share art between museums and new census data shows Arkansas's rate of uninsured has been cut in half since 2013.
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- Today in Arkansas: The Little Rock mayoral race
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- 3:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Headlines for September 12, 2017: updates on the Little Rock mayoral campaigns, Stodola's attempt to woo Amazon, information on the Pig & Swig event on September 21 and K-Lofts gets revived as Mulberry Flats.
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- Today in Arkansas: LRSD settles racial bias suit
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- 4:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Headlines for September 11, 2017 include: LRSD settles racial bias suit, Lucie's Place ends bid for new shelter, Carter condemns Trump's DACA move and Montel Williams joins the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Association board.
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- Today in Arkansas: DACA rallies continue
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- 3:26
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Headlines for September 8, 2017: Atheist group asks Arkansas schools not to put up "In God We Trust" signs and gets a response, Hill and Womack team up with Dems to keep Amtrak on the tracks, DACA protests continue, and a former chief justice dishes on court dysfunction.
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- Weather by hand
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- 12:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- If you're a weather nerd and you don't follow the US National Weather Service Little Rock Arkansas, then you're really missing out. The forecasts and analyses they post are intriguing, but what really caught my eye are their hand drawn weather maps. I ventured their way this morning to learn more about these meteorological masterpieces.
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- Today in Arkansas: The art of the deal
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Your headlines for September 7, 2017: Arkansas State Supreme Court hears case on using state funds for local projects, Trump accepts offer from Pelosi and Schumer on debt ceiling, how the Trump tax cuts will affect Arkansas and a $2.1 million grant for University of Arkansas to research electric vehicles.
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- Today in Arkansas: Foster care system sees improvements
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Headlines for September 6, 2017 include a DHS report that shows improvement in the Arkansas foster care system, the Arkansas State Police is being called in to investigate two unrelated prison inmate deaths, Hurricane Irma cancels a football game and a quick plug for Billy Fleming, co-author of The Indivisible Guide.
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- Today in Arkansas: DACA to be phased out
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Your Arkansas headlines for September 5, 2017: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced this morning that DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from the threat of deportation, is being phased out. Also, Cotton's take on DACA, the story of Dick Gregory's arrest in Pine Bluff for eating at a segregated restaurant as well as news of lower-than-expected state tax revenues.
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- Rudy Ray Moore: The kung fu ninja pimp
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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Snoop Dogg once called him, "the greatest of all time," and said, "without him there'd be no rap community. He was through with it before we knew what to do with it." It's Fort Smith native, Rudy Ray Moore.
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- Today in Arkansas: 1500 guardsmen headed to Texas
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Headlines for September 1, 2017 include an update on the "enhanced carry" bill, news of 1500 National Guardsmen leaving tomorrow to help with the relief effort in Texas, and a sparse turnout at the Hogs' game at War Memorial in Little Rock.
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- Today in Arkansas: Harvey winds down
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- 3:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Headlines for August 31, 2017 include a lawsuit filed against LRPD, what remains of Harvey and what it means for Arkansas, Bentonville's new contemporary art facility gets a name, and updates on the Arlington Hotel.
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- Today in Arkansas: Bill Clinton headed to Little Rock
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Headlines for August 30, 2017 include a lawsuit filed against Power Ultra Lounge, the busting up of a Pine Bluff gambling ring, a student-developed app for Central High, and details on an upcoming visit by President Bill Clinton.
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- Today in Arkansas: Water still rising
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- 5:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- News on Tuesday, August 29 includes rising water in Texas and a Trump visit; a big new health alliance in Arkansas; yet another LR shooting; no charges for Fort Smith FOI scofflaws; new highway cameras in Arkansas, and a streaker opens high school football season.
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- Today in Arkansas: The deluge -- Harvey and Trump
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- 6:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Biblical flood disaster in Houston overshadowed a deluge of Donald Trump decisions carrying their own kind of damages. Also: School pulls back a welcome for U.S. Rep. French Hill; a local representative stands up for Arkansas Tech; El Dorado's art district gets national attention; Little Rock violence continues.
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- Today in Arkansas: Life and death from the governor's office
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- 6:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Gov. Asa Hutchinson set one execution date and signaled clemency for another on Death Row today. Also in Arkansas on Friday, Aug. 25: Rep. Mary Bentley's continued vendetta against Arkansas Tech; big crowd to defend LR schools; politics in the 1st District; Arlington Hotel developer faults city resistance; guns on campus; let's go to the movies.
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- Gent v Arkansas: Porno to the people
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- 3:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Put the kids to bed, it's time for Arkansas Times Unmentionables, presented by Cupid's. In this series we talk about the more salacious moments of Arkansas history.
Tonight we discuss Gent Magazine and its fight to be on newsstands in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. There, in 1963, a Dr. William Brown formed a committee meant to seek out and censor pornography, but a single scrappy newsstand refused to remove the magazines…
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