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BPA’s Operation Skyhook lands in PB again

Updated: May 23, 2013 9:19pm

Pine Bluff’s Grider Field Municipal Airport is again hosting the Black Pilots of America’s annual Operation Skyhook Friday through Sunday.

The 17th annual Memorial Day weekend fly-in event...

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Fire chief to disuss new ISO rating at town hall meeting

Updated: May 11, 2013 5:27pm

A discussion on the Pine Bluff Fire and Emergency Services Department’s recent upgrade to a Class 2 ISO rating and what it means for residents will be led by Fire Chief Shauwn Howell at Mayor Debe...

<p>Mac Bellingrath gives the commencement address during Southeast Arkansas College’s Spring 2013 Commencement Program on Friday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. (Special to the Commercial/William Harvey)</p>

SEARK College graduates held to high ideals

Updated: May 13, 2013 2:19pm

The powerful ideals forever enshrined in the United States Declaration of Independence served as the inspiration for words of encouragement as well as admonitions of personal responsibility during...

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Father arrested in infant son’s death

Updated: May 10, 2013 5:02pm

The death of an infant early Thursday morning is being called a homicide and Pine Bluff police have arrested the child’s father in connection with the incident.

Ivory Jones, 23, was taken...

<p>Valedictorian Zoheb Yunus leads the procession of graduates during the commencement program for the St. Joseph High School Class of 2013 on Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church. (Special to the Commercial/William Harvey)</p>

Final graduation is bittersweet for St. Joseph

Updated: May 10, 2013 9:52pm

Organ music filled the cathedral as St. Joseph Catholic High School’s graduating class of 2013 walked down the aisle toward their future on Friday night.

The five seniors who received their...

Review committee fires PB officer

Updated: May 10, 2013 6:11pm

A city appeals panel on Friday fired a Pine Bluff police officer accused of sexually harassing a female officer.

Officer Chris Powell originally was suspended for 20 days by Interim Police...

Upgraded fire protection could mean lower insurance bills for property owners

Updated: May 10, 2013 7:46pm

A lot of hard work from the Pine Bluff Fire and Emergency Services Department, and the passage of a sales tax increase to fund new equipment, has paid off with an upgrade of the city’s Fire...

White Hall, Watson Chapel voters head to polls Tuesday

Updated: May 14, 2013 2:18pm

Tuesday is election day for the city of White Hall. with voters asked to approve a bond issue to finance a proposed community center and aquatics park, and for the Watson Chapel School District,...

Conference to target minority tobacco use

Updated: May 10, 2013 6:12pm

An annual gathering for advocates fighting minority tobacco use will celebrate its 10th anniversary in Pine Bluff on May 16 when the Clearing the Air in Communities of Color conference opens its...

Sheriff’s Department preparing for recycling program

Updated: May 10, 2013 5:14pm

A resolution approving a working agreement between the county’s recycling department and the sheriff’s Clean Team is expected to be approved by the Jefferson County Quorum Court on Monday, and the...

<p>Laurell and Willie Hall, whose daughter Cleashindra Hall has been missing since May 9, 1994, watch a video about Cleashindra’s disappearance during a service Thursday at St. Peter’s Rock Baptist Church in Pine Bluff. (Special to the Commercial/William Harvey)</p>

FAITH SUSTAINS HOPE Cleashindra Hall is celebrated in church service

Updated: May 09, 2013 10:29pm

Although her whereabouts have been unknown for nearly two decades, a Thursday night “service of hope” at St Peter’s Rock Baptist Church here provided ample evidence that Cleashindra Hall is alive...

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