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Kibbe-Patterson win tourney
Charles Kibbe and Colin Patterson hauled in a five-fish limit totaling 15.71 pounds to win the Batesville Bassmasters March 23 tournament on Lake Norfork, said club officer Brian Johnson, who released the results. Bryan Harmon, fishing by himself, won second place with a stringer weighing …
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Trees offered for joining group
Nebraska City, NEB. — National Arbor Day is April 26, and the Arbor Day Foundation is offering 10 free shade trees to anyone who joins the foundation in April. The trees are red oak, sugar maple, weeping willow, bald cypress, thornless honeylocust, pin oak, river …
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Deadline to be extended for filing
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the extension of the voluntary claims process for Hispanic and women farmers and ranchers who allege discrimination by the United States Department of Agriculture in past decades. All claims must now be filed by the first of …
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Veteran recalls service with Elvis Presley
PARIS, Ark. (AP) — Years before Elvis Presley left the building a final time, an area man captured a unique side of the King of Rock and Roll. Robert Mainer served alongside Presley in the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1958. …
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Gov. Beebe: U.S. govt. will help with private insurance
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Gov. Mike Beebe’s office says it has received a letter from the federal government expressing “conceptual support” for his plan to use Medicaid dollars to buy private health insurance for the state’s poorer residents. According to Beebe, the Health and Human …
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One arrested in Mtn. Home death
MOUNTAIN HOME (AP) — Baxter County authorities say they’ve arrested a woman for the death of a Mountain Home man. Sheriff John Montgomery said in a news release that the woman was arrested Tuesday after taking the body of 24-year-old Raul Segura Turrieta to a …
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Fire breaks out at Oaklawn barn
HOT SPRINGS (AP) — Oaklawn Park says no people or horses were injured when a fire broke out Tuesday in a barn at the racetrack. Oaklawn officials say the fire broke out Tuesday morning in one of the upstairs sleeping rooms of a barn. Assistant …
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Cop involved in fatal shooting
BRYANT (AP) — Arkansas State Police say a Bryant police officer shot and killed a man while investigating a burglary alarm. State police say two officers responded to the burglary call late Tuesday at Fred’s Store on Arkansas 5 in Bryant. Authorities say gunfire erupted …
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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. …
