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<p>The Pine Bluff City Council meets Monday night at the civic complex. (Special to The Commercial/William Harvey)</p>

Amended public nuisance measure passes

Updated: May 20, 2013 10:42pm

A 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

Updated: May 20, 2013 10:43pm

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Severe weather possible in SE Arkansas

Updated: May 20, 2013 8:41pm

There is a slight risk of severe weather Tuesday in Southeast Arkansas as a storm system that has rocked Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas continues to grow and move to the east and northeast.

The...

New charter school remains on track despite obstacles

Updated: May 20, 2013 8:01pm

Quest Middle School of Pine Bluff remains on schedule to welcome several hundred fifth- through eighth-graders through its doors as an open enrollment charter school this August thanks to the...

<p>Taylor Standford</p>

White Hall native receives award from OBU

Updated: May 20, 2013 11:31pm

Stacy Beck of Sheridan recently earned Ouachita Baptist University’s highest academic honor as the university’s Overall Academic Achiever.

Beck — a political science, history and French...

<p>Jimmy Hammock</p>

UAPB alumnus receives Alcorn award

Updated: May 20, 2013 7:09pm

Jimmy Hammock, international president of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., was given the President’s Honorarii Alcornite Societatis during Alcorn State University’s commencement in recognition of...

<p>Ruth Jones, pictured with NASA Safety Center Director Alan Phillips, was awarded the Cleveland Federal Executive Board’s Wings of Excellence Award at the 27th Annual Awards Program. (Special to The Commercial)</p>

UAPB alumna receives Cleveland award

Updated: May 20, 2013 6:58pm

Ruth Jones, a 1984 University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff graduate, received the Cleveland Federal Executive Board’s Wings of Excellence Award at the 27th Annual Awards Program for serving as an...

Doctor to present arthritis program

Updated: May 20, 2013 6:45pm

The Barraque Street Missionary Baptist Church Health Ministry will hold its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the fellowship hall.

The topic will be “Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid...

<p>Chapel Jones</p>

WCHS students graduate Tuesday

Updated: May 20, 2013 6:20pm

Watson Chapel High School graduation will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Pine Bluff Convention Center.

Rhett Hunt is the valedictorian. Chapel Jones is the salutatorian.

Housing Authority to meet Wednesday

Updated: May 20, 2013 6:12pm

The Pine Bluff Housing Authority Board of Directors will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Colonial Steakhouse, 111 W. Eighth Ave.

McGehee student awarded scholarship

Updated: May 20, 2013 5:50pm

Matthew Blissitt of McGehee has been awarded a $1,000 college scholarship by the Alex Foundation.

Matthew has been accepted to the University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture.

<p>Students from Jason Scoggins’s fifth-period economics class display examples of their decorative jars. (Special to The Commercial)</p>

WCJH students donate to CASA

Updated: May 20, 2013 7:46pm

Watson Chapel Junior High School students in Jason Scoggins’s economics class and Mrs. Debill’s and Mrs. Golden’s art classes recently presented CASA Women’s Shelter Director Karen Palmer with a...

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