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White Hall graduate earns UALR scholarship
Area Digest Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 7:21pmAbigail Rogne, a 2013 White Hall High School graduate, has been awarded the Academic Achievement Scholarship from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
The scholarship awards $16,000...
Family Community Development Corp. to meet Thursday
Area Digest Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 4:40pmFamily Community Development Corp., 1001 N. Palm St., will have its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Mayor Debe Hollingsworth will be the guest. The meeting is open to the public...
S.O.S.S. to hold graduation picnic Monday
Area Digest Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 4:37pmSave Our Students and Society will hold a graduation picnic from noon to 7 p.m. Monday at Esau Pickett Park in Dumas.
There will be food and games. Details: (870) 377-0301, (870) 377-2550 or...
White Hall native makes Harding dean’s list
Area Digest Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 4:17pmChristopher Jackson, a junior youth and family ministry major from White Hall, was among more than 1,000 Harding University students on the dean’s list for the spring semester.
To be...
Bradley, Desha, Drew counties under tornado watch through 10 p.m.
Region Comments Updated: May 21, 2013 6:29pmBradley, Desha and Drew counties remain under a tornado watch through 10 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
The watch has expired for other counties in Southeast Arkansas.
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Amended public nuisance measure passes
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 10:42pmA proposed ordinance providing a penalty for failure to abate a property declared by the city as a public nuisance was approved in a split vote Monday night after being amended by the Pine Bluff...
Council OKs revamped parks commission
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 10:43pmThe Pine Bluff Parks and Recreation Commission was expanded from five to nine members in a unanimous decision by the city council Monday night.
The realignment ordinance was introduced at...
Formal charges filed in March shooting death
Local Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 8:39pmFormal charges have been filed against a teenager in the March shooting death of a 21-year-old man.
Prosecuting Attorney S. Kyle Hunter charged Curtis Ladd Jr., 16, as an adult with first-...
Oklahoma City suburb devastated by tornado
Region Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 10:00pmRescue workers clawed through mountains of rubble in a frantic search for survivors — including dozens of missing children — as the death toll mounted after a mile-wide tornado flattened an...
Calls for Shoffner’s resignation mount
State Comments Updated: May 20, 2013 9:32pmLITTLE ROCK — Gov. Mike Beebe led a chorus of officials from both sides of the political aisle Monday in calling for embattled state Treasurer Martha Shoffner to resign in the face of federal...