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Audit finds sheriff held cash account
Arkansas Online Stories: Arkansas
Jan 16Lawmakers have referred to a prosecuting attorney an audit of a Greene County sheriff who destroyed invoices and supporting documents for a cash account he held outside of the county treasurer’s control. »
School shows nativity scene amid complaints
Arkansas Online Stories: Arkansas
Dec 14The superintendent of the Greene County Tech school system allowed a counselor to decorate a bulletin board with a scene depicting the birth of Jesus, saying if someone has to be offended, it shouldn’t be the town’s Christian majority. »
Judge moves trial for Trumann officer slaying
NWA Online - News
Dec 13Trial for a man accused of killing a Trumann police officer will be moved from Poinsett County to Greene County. »
Motion: Allow Prempro jurors to discuss trial
Arkansas Online Stories: Arkansas
Oct 26On Tuesday, just five days after a federal jury rejected a Marmaduke woman’s claims that Wyeth Pharmaceuticals failed to issue adequate warnings about the breast-cancer risks associated with Prempro, attorneys sought permission to discuss the trial wit... »
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Greene County Tech defies ACLU on Nativity display
Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog
Dec 30DEFIANT JESUS: Despite the ACLU and school lawyer's counsel, the Nativity scene stayed put. We wrote earlier about the Greene County Tech elementary counselor in Paragould who put up a Nativity scene display in her classroom despite counsel against it ... »
Mike Ross declares war FOR Christmas
Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog
Dec 19Is there a shallower, more opportunistic, more demagoguic public official in Arkansas than U.S. Rep. Mike Ross? Here he declares war against those making war on Christmas. He has a bloody shirt to wave, a House resolution claiming there are those inten... »
Church and state in Arkansas
Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog
Dec 15UNASHAMED — AND NOT ALONE: A group that works for separation of church and state is adding another legislator's church school to its complaint about taxpayer support of religious instruction at Growing God's Kingdom. Is the state of Arkansas ever going... »
Arkansas doesn't seem likely for Romney in GOP primary
Arkansas Times Arkansas Blog
Dec 13WILL HE PLAY IN ARKANSAS? Mitt Romney.Politico writes about the race in the South for the Republican presidential nomination. If the Republican state legislators are any indication, voters here like Rick Perry-style politics. Or at least they did until... »
Brief respite for Burns Park geese: Get out and suggest some alternative solutions: I can't drive to NLR to speak but, if I did, I would probably tell those who want to destroy the geese to 'make peace with nature' and get a real life.
Federal And State Issues In Arkansas
Dec 13ShareSortComments (5) RSSShowing 1-5 of 5Add a commentPeople had planned on that for Christmas dinner. And, the bounty would have been shared with the hungry among us. Not everyone can go to a hunting club, money is kind of tight these days...report 0 ... »