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‘Looper’ enjoyable, but don’t think too hard about it, reviewer says
Region Comments Updated: Sep 29, 2012 12:00pmA Review
At least “Looper” has the courtesy to tell viewers to turn off their brains.
Twice.
Otherwise, attempting to understand the physics behind a man from the future trying...
Jefferson County residential sales rise, report says
Region Comments Updated: Sep 26, 2012 6:31pmWhile Arkansas home sales were essentially flat in July and down 5.6 percent in August statewide compared to the same month last year, Jefferson County bucked the statistical trend with...
Mistrial declared in Gould mayor’s case
Region Comments Updated: Sep 25, 2012 6:55pmSTAR CITY — Judge Rob Wyatt declared a mistrial late Tuesday morning and dismissed a jury of seven women and five men empaneled one day earlier to hear the trial of Gould Mayor Earnest Nash Jr.,...
Trial begins for Gould mayor
Region Comments Updated: Sep 24, 2012 9:29pmSTAR CITY – A Lincoln County Circuit Court jury of seven women and five men is scheduled to continue hearing testimony at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the state’s prosecution of Gould Mayor Earnest Nash Jr...
Rains beat back drought in Arkansas, foster soybean rust
Region Comments Updated: Sep 20, 2012 10:39pmA series of late summer rains has pushed back the areas of extreme and exceptional drought to 42 percent of Arkansas, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday.
The most...
Judge: Ousted Gould aldermen’s votes stand
Region Comments Updated: Sep 19, 2012 3:37pmCircuit Court Judge Robert H. “Rob” Wyatt Jr. on Tuesday issued rulings on three lingering questions involved in the civil lawsuit brought by a Gould citizens group against two former city...
State Police investigating officer-involved shooting at Warren
Region Comments Updated: Sep 14, 2012 8:58pmWARREN — Warren Police Sgt. Robbie Ashcraft has been placed on administrative leave with pay pending the outcome of a State Police investigation into a Thursday night shooting in which a robbery...
Star City man dies following Sunday shooting
Region Comments Updated: Sep 12, 2012 10:21pmSTAR CITY — John Daryl Finley, 43, of Star City, died Tuesday at Jefferson Regional Medical Center after being shot Sunday. David Nathan Yarberry, 43, of Star City, has been arrested in connection...
McGehee man dies in house fire during mother’s wake, officials say
Region Comments Updated: Sep 12, 2012 7:33pmMCGEHEE — A 61-year-old McGehee man died in a house fire Monday night while his wife was attending his mother’s wake, according to Desha County Deputy Coroner Leroy Emerson.
Emerson said...
SEA library director, wife die in apparent murder-suicide in Warren, police say
Region Comments Updated: Sep 12, 2012 7:23pmWARREN — Kim Patterson, the director of the Southeast Arkansas Regional Library who spearheaded a sales tax increase in Drew County to build a new library, apparently died in a murder-suicide...