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NEWPORT - Dozens of Mildred Dean Elementary parents crowded a meeting Tuesday to convince the school district to not close the school.

Numerous members of the Arkansas State Athletic Department will be making the rounds at local golf courses beginning today when the summer golf tour gets underway in Osceola with the first of four Scarlet Scrambles.

Last spring, the Twin Lakes Area experienced heavy rain and record floods, driving both Bull Shoals and Norfork lakes to record levels.

The Hobbs State Park-Conservation Area, east of Rogers, will celebrate the grand opening of its visitor center at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Arkansas Razorback men's track and field head coach Chris Bucknam announced the addition of two student-athletes for the sprints/hurdles/relays events for the 2009-10 season on Friday.

Where Elvis Presley walked, adoring fans follow, even more than 30 years after his death - if they just know where to go.

The towering rice mills and a handful of stores are all that most motorists see as they pass through this Poinsett County town on U.S. 49.

Former Tennessee offensive tackle Leslie Ratliffe, a two-year starter for the Volunteers, has died.

The meeting will launch Moving Jackson County Forward, a cooperative project of the Jackson County School District and the Newport Special School District.

Gunner is scheduled to graduate in May 2009 from Tuckerman High School. His major will be in computer information systems.

A style of rock 'n' roll mixed with rowdy country music that had its heyday along U.S. 67 in northeastern Arkansas 50 years ago is making an encore performance.

LaVerne Morgan Long Stone, 75, of Newport, Ark., died March 29, 2009, at her home surrounded by her husband, daughters and granddaughters.

ABF Freight System, Inc. , announces the appointment of William David Evans to vice president of industrial relations effective June 1, 2009.

Danny Nunemaker remembers when it began. He watched the White River wash over the plains towards his house.

A stretch of U.S. 67 that Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash used to travel is a-comin' closer to becoming Arkansas' 'Rock 'n' Roll Highway.' The Senate Transportation, Technology and Legislative Affairs ...

On Thursday morning slushy ice on Highway 63 caused at least two cars to slide off the road and those drivers are not alone.

Anthony Patterson, 32, isn't a board member of the Trumann Chamber of Commerce because he enjoys any prestige it might bring.

Circling the track at a fitness center Sunday, I noticed ahead a red shirt with black lettering touting the Red Wolves.

Kara Jo Benson Kayla Davis of Black Rock and Taylor Benson of Powhatan announce the birth of a daughter on Feb.

Northern Arkansas is in a world of hurt. Thousands of customers are still without power.