Students selected as royalty for Purdy High School's homecoming on Friday are shown above.

Madison said in the Huntsville Forum:

As a 'Blue Dog' Democrat, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas has often sided with Republicans. But that's left Democrats grumbling and the GOP thinking she's an easy target in the 2010 elections. By Suzi Parker Correspondent February 5, 2010 Little Rock, Ark. By all accounts, Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas is one of the most endangered Senate Democrats facing reelection – so much so that Republicans are lining up to challenge her. On Saturday, US Rep. John Boozman jumps into the crowded GOP primary field – the 10th candidate – in hopes of defeating Senator Lincoln in November. In some polls, Representative Boozman already leads Lincoln by double digits. Even lesser-known candidates have large leads against her. A poll this week shows Lincoln with a 27 percent approval rating – bad news for an incumbent. “Lincoln continues to trail most of the GOP candidates and her job numbers remain anemic,” says Jennifer Duffy, a senior analyst at The Cook Political Report. “She was forced to push back on rumors about two weeks ago that she would retire because her poll numbers are so weak.” During her two Senate terms, Lincoln has strived to be a fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrat. She hails from a state that has a Democratic statehouse and congressional delegation, but that historically votes Republican in presidential elections. In the 2008 presidential race, Barack Obama lost Arkansas to Republican John McCain by 20 percentage points. Interest groups on the Democratic side continue to target her on myriad fronts – the environment, healthcare reform, the Employee Free Choice Act, gay and lesbian issues. Even local farmers want her to be more supportive of them rather than big agriculture. Earlier this week, Lincoln danced on a political high wire at the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Issues Conference in Washington when she urged President Obama “to push back on ideological extremes at both ends of the political spectrum,” according to Lincoln’s news release. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0205/Sen.-Blanche-Lincoln-fights-for-her-political-life

Like a good host, Thomas Holloway welcomed his visitors at the Huntsville Museum of Art.

Huntsville Memorial Hospital welcomed its first baby of 2010 on Monday at 3:12 p.m. when Traiton Broussard was born to parents Courtney Franklin and Lester Broussard of Huntsville.

The Huntsville School District has announced that there will be no classes again on Wednesday in either Huntsville or St.

Community Blood Center of the Ozarks will host several area blood drives this week.

The Arkansas State Board of Education recently recognized Fayetteville High School and nine other high schools in Northwest Arkansas for student performance on the 2009 ACT exam.

After 42 years on the job at Huntsville Memorial Hospital, LVN Verna Philio is hanging up her nursing shoes.A As a graduate of the first class of the Joe G. Davis School of Vocational Nursing at Huntsville Memorial, Philio has seen her share of new faces arrive in this community.A "I started working for Huntsville Memorial Hospital on Labor Day ...

Madison said in the Huntsville Forum:

Scam Helped Illegal Aliens Take Jobs from American Workers Posted on Sunday, December 13 @ 01:17:43 EST Topic: Illegal Immigration News in the US Arkansas-based poultry processor George's, Inc. recently broke up a scam within its human resources department at one of its plants in Columbia Furnace, Va. Plant employees were using documents submitted by legal applicants to help illegal aliens get jobs at the plant. Topics: Illegal Immigration, employment scam, illegal workers, George's Inc., human resources department, sold documents December 11, 2009 NumbersUSA Three employees from within the plant's human resources department copied documents from applicants who were told that there were no jobs at the plant. The employees then sold the documents to illegal workers who were required to forfeit up to $100 per pay period to the human resource employees. The human resource employees were fired along with the illegal workers, but police were not involved. The break-up was handled by George's, Inc. The scheme likely violated federal labor laws, but without the company's cooperation, federal investigators are at a dead end.

Trista Jane Keck and Colby Ryan Spongberg, both of Rogers, plan to marry at 6 p.m. June 5, 2010, at Grace Point Church of Northwest Arkansas in Bentonville.

From two dimensions to three. George Dombek, the Goshen artist known for his crisp paintings of rocks, flowers and trees, will create a bronze sculpture based on his bicycle-tree paintings for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Alice Walton's project in Bentonville.

A 2009 graduate of Huntsville High School has been arrested for attempting to make the drug MDMA , commonly referred to as ecstasy.

Two artists with Ozark connections will create new sculptures for the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Two artists with Ozark connections will create new sculptures for the grounds of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

This month's popular First Thursday Fayetteville event is hosted in part by the 540 Film Festival which kicks off this evening.

The Arkansas Activities Association Board of Directors released the conference alignments for the 2010-11 school years recently.

People under the age of 18 will no longer be allowed to loiter around Huntsville city streets, alleys or other public places between 11:30 p.m. and 5 a.m. following the City Council's passing of an ordinance at Monday's regular monthly meeting.

Errors in the government's latest effort to track the effectiveness of the $787 billion stimulus plan are showing that funds were used not just to create or save jobs, but to fund raises or benefits for existing employees.

Madison said in the Huntsville Forum:

This was a news story on one of the local TV station. http://www.4029tv.com/video/21504489/index.HTML Illegal immigration as we all know has been a hot button issue for several years now. With the economic trouble in the country now,and jobs hard to come by I think it's time something more was done to stop the trafficking of illegal aliens into our country. Why is it that our local law enforcement officers do not have the proper training,and the authority to arrest these illegal aliens when they find them? Some say this will only lead to racial profiling.I feel that's one of the biggest excuses the liberal media wants you to believe.It goes right along with "they're doing jobs American citizens won't do",or "they're only here for a better life". Well their better life is coming at a high cost to the tax paying citizens of this country. Another point I'd like to touch on here is the automatic citizenship for the children born to illegal aliens. That is not why the 14th Amendment was added to our constitution. The abuse of it has gotten way out of line with how it is was intended to be used. There isn't another nation in the world that I know of that even allows the children to be given citizenship if at least one parent is not a legal citizen of said country. Now I've had my say,so I'd like to get your opinions on this matter.

Class 4A Shiloh Christian, as expected, was too much for Huntsville on Friday night, shutting out the Eagles, 38-0. The loss dropped HHS to 3-6 on the season and 2-4 in 1-4A Conference play.