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Mayor vetoes police division’s move to former armory

Updated: Jun 18, 2013 8:12pm

Pine Bluff Mayor Debe Hollingsworth on Tuesday vetoed an ordinance directing a move of the police department’s patrol division from its current Commerce Road warehouse location to the old Army...

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Reported county crime down slightly in May compared to 2012

Updated: Jun 14, 2013 5:33pm

Reported crime in the unincorporated areas of Jefferson County dropped slightly in May compared to a year ago, according to the monthly report from the sheriff’s department.

There were 167...

Local pediatrician lauded for expertise, compassion

Updated: Jun 08, 2013 7:26pm

Tom Ed Townsend M.D. of Pine Bluff was said to be a gifted medical professional who also cared deeply for the children that he treated in his pediatric practice at the Children’s Clinic located...

Prison inmate loses appeal on classification status

Updated: Jun 08, 2013 4:37pm

The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of an Arkansas prison inmate who had contended that prison officials refused to restore his inmate classification and he was denied entrance into...

<p>Janice Streeter, Dollarway School District’s director of academic accountability, discusses her views on education during the Arkansas Commission on Closing the Achievement Gap Symposium at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Friday. (Special to The Commercial/William Harvey)</p>

UAPB conference addresses student achievement gap

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:21pm

The struggle by many of the state’s low income, rural school districts to maintain a quality education for their students was the topic of discussion at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff...

<p>Puppies peer through a fence recently at the Pine Bluff Animal Control Department. Special to The Commercial/William Harvey</p>

City animal shelter’s future looking brighter

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 9:36pm

Angie Rutherford is excited about a number of developing changes within the Pine Bluff Animal Control Department.

The supervising animal control officer said Friday that as the agency moves...

Mayor wants party for PB’s 175th anniversary

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 6:37pm

Pine Bluff is nearing the 175th anniversary of its Jan. 8, 1839, incorporation as a city, and Mayor Debe Hollingsworth would like to mark the occasion with a big party — well, actually a citywide...

Clarification

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 10:41pm

George Makris, chairman of the Economic Development Corp. of Jefferson County, which oversees appropriations of revenues generated by a three-eighths cent sales tax approved by voters in 2011 and...

Animal shelter in need of donations; dogs and cats available for adoption

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 10:16pm

Pine Bluff’s Animal Control shelter at 901 N. Haverty St., adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Park, could use a helping hand, and for more than just petting a cat or dog awaiting adoption. The...

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A Bee Surprise

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 8:11pm

The Baxter family got a surprise when a fallen tree limb revealed a bee hive on Wednesday at the their home on U.S. 79 South. Jennifer Baxter said Kirk Howard, who came to remove the bees,...

Appeals Court rejects Martin appeal on robbery, burglary conviction

Updated: Jun 07, 2013 5:06pm

A Pine Bluff man convicted on multiple charges after a home invasion robbery in White Hall in 2010 failed to convince the Arkansas Court of Appeals that his conviction should be thrown out.

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