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Ark. House panel OKs tax cut
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — An Arkansas House panel has endorsed a proposal to cut taxes on manufacturers in the state. The House Revenue and Taxation Committee on Tuesday voted to approve the measure, sending it to the full House for consideration. The bill would reduce …
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Feds send corrective order to Exxon after oil leak
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Federal pipeline safety officials on Tuesday issued a corrective action order to ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. after one of its pipelines ruptured last week in central Arkansas. The order from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration comes after ExxonMobil’s Pegasus pipeline …
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USDA taking applications grants
ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking applications for $3 million worth of health care projects for communities of up to 50,000 people in the eight-state Delta region. Undersecretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager says the Delta Health Care Services Grant …
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As Facebook matures, is it losing its edge?
NEW YORK — To see what Facebook has become, look no further than the Hutzler 571 Banana Slicer. Sometime last year, people began sharing tongue-in-cheek online reviews of the banana-shaped piece of yellow plastic with their Facebook friends. Then those friends shared with their friends. …
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Billingsley tells students to dream big
MOUNT PLEASANT — Take away the crown, the sequined six-inch platform heels and title of Miss Arkansas USA 2013 and Hannah Billingsley is still a Mount Pleasant Bluebird and Melbourne High School Bearkat — a 22-year-old college student who grew up on a farm in …
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Attempted abduction reported at Southside
Two Southside schoolchildren, as well as their mother, got a scare when a strange man reportedly approached the children as they got off the bus near their home Monday afternoon. Independence County Sheriff’s Deputy James Wood said he was dispatched to the 500 block of …
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Circus coming to Batesville
The Kiwanis Club of Batesville is presenting the Kelly Miller Circus for the exhibition of an all-new 2013 show, according to a news release from Kiwanis member Brian Berry. The circus will roll into town on April 17. “Everyone is invited to come out and …
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Celtic Concert kicks off Arkansas Scottish Festival
The second annual Celtic Concert will kick off the 34th Arkansas Scottish Festival at 7:30 p.m. April 12. The concert will be in Brown Chapel on the Lyon College campus. The Lyon College Pipe Band will perform. Special guests include alternative bluegrass band The Fox …
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UACCB hires events coordinator
Mark Cartwright was hired in February as events coordinator for the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville. A 1998 graduate of Southside High School, he earned an associate’s degree in business administration from UACCB in 2000 and transferred to Lyon College where he obtained …
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Murder trial ends with plea
MOUNTAIN HOME (AP) — The capital murder trial for a man charged in the 2006 killing of a Mountain Home doctor ended abruptly when the defendant pleaded no contest to first-degree murder. Gary Wayne Parks entered the plea Monday in what would have been the …
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Weather delays street work
Street repair on Eagle Mountain Boulevard will not begin Wednesday as previously scheduled, Mayor Rick Elumbaugh has announced. Due to weather, the project will now start next Monday. Work will begin just after 8 a.m. and continue until the job is completed. Officials ask that …
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Martial arts studio opens in Cave City
CAVE CITY — When Abbey Masoner was 6 years old she watched a Chuck Norris movie and told her father, “I want to do that.” Now, years later, the family is opening its sixth school, Kicks Martial Arts located at 416 Main St. in Cave …
