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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 News briefs Story date: Oct. 27, 2009 Retired teachers meeting The Yell County Retired Teachers association will meet at 9:30 a.m. Nov.

This week's winner Samuel Forest Beavers Which Bobcat player lead in tackles in the Walnut Ridge vs.

Reading the text of The Washington Post 's new guidelines for its staff's use of Facebook, Twitter, and the like, I couldn't help but think of...John Hughes.

I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER ** DIRECTED BY: CHRIS COLUMBUS STARRING: HAYDEN PANETTIERE, PAUL RUST, JACK CARPENTER, LAUREN LONDON THIS decidedly 1980s teen comedy tries, not always convincingly, to retrofit the American Pie-style coming-of-age pic with the waking-nightmare vibe of After Hours.

When I heard director John Hughes had died last week, I found myself feeling preemptively protective of his legacy.

At the seasoned age of 54, Willie Cutler figured he'd never be doing this again -- swinging a hoe to cut weeds in a field of waist-high cotton.

Ready to make some music: Charlie Saxton, left, Tim Jo, Ryan Donowho, Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell and Alyson Michalka in "BandSlam." "BandSlam" is a pleasant, if unintentional, tribute to the legacy of the late John Hughes.

CHICAGO - Walley World? John Hughes came up with that one. Ferris Bueller on the town? Hughes.

CHICAGO - Walley World? John Hughes came up with that one. Ferris Bueller on the town? Hughes.

CHICAGO - Walley World? John Hughes came up with that one. Ferris Bueller on the town? Hughes.

Erin Keane, a pop culture instructor at Bellarmine University, is vacationing in the perfect city to celebrate the memory of John Hughes.

John Hughes moviesa 'the good ones, those five or six gems he wrote and directed in the mid-to-late '80s, before he stopped directing altogether and became a producer and writer of hack comediesa 'persist in the collective memory of a certain demographic as foundational texts of adolescence.

John Hughes, who passed away on Thursday at age 59, graduated Glenbrook North High School in suburban Illinois in the spring of 1968.

CHICAGO - Walley World? John Hughes came up with that one. Ferris Bueller on the town? Hughes.

Thirteen small Arkansas cities and counties have won economic-recovery grants to fix or expand local infrastructure, the state's recovery office announced Thursday.

Work on a four-mile stretch of Highway 1 between Caldwell and Colt will begin later this month, according to officials with the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department.

A man was killed Saturday after allegedly attacking a woman in downtown Hughes. The St.

St. Francis County is one of 37 counties statewide that will receive federal disaster assistance thanks to a disaster declaration signed this week by President Barack Obama.

A St. Francis County deputy says Lawrence Harden Jr. is the fastest man he's ever seen in leg irons.

A 24-hour vigil at Sen. Blanche Lincoln's Little Rock office culminates at 4:30 p.m. today with a march to the Capitol for a rally in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.