Arkansas

2 Murder Suspects On The Run After Arkansas Jail Break

Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012

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May 28 (Reuters) - Authorities in southwestern Arkansas have launched a manhunt for two murder suspects who escaped from jail before dawn on Monday ...

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Supreme Court Allows Arkansas Second Shot At Murder Trial

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 05.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Arkansas is not barred by the Constitution's double jeopardy clause from retrying a man for murder even though the first jury had announ...

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Mike Huckabee Grudge Match Heats Up

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.22.2012

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Army reservist Tom Cotton appears positioned to defeat Beth Anne Rankin, an aide to former-Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), in Tuesday's House Republican Prima...

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Pregnant Woman Stabbed To Death By Husband Of One Week

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 05.17.2012

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A newlywed was being held on a murder charge Wednesday after his pregnant wife staggered into a western Arkansas police stat...

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Accused Killer Who Dumped 16-Year-Old's Body In Plastic Barrel Heads To Court

AP | Posted 05.15.2012

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FORT SMITH, Ark. -- An Arkansas man accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online is slated to go on trial this summer after authorities found h...

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Man Allegedly Locked Woman In Camper, Tortured Her With Torch, Stun Gun

AP | Posted 05.09.2012

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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Arkansas authorities say a woman who was allegedly held against her will and tortured before escaping went with her alleged ...

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Obama Presidency Lures Out Dormant Racism

Nicole Glass | Posted 05.03.2012

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The end of a racist nation cannot just come from an integration of races in schools, the workplace and politics. It must come from a very personal change in perception. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed the law, but it's the people that change a culture.

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CAUGHT ON TAPE: Hot Dog Tong Robbery Attempt

Posted 04.18.2012

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He's armed -- and sort of dangerous. An Arkansas man used a pair of hot dog tongs to threaten a convenience store employee and customer during a fa...

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The Future of Higher Education in Rural America

Dr. Stephen Schoonmaker | Posted 04.17.2012

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Despite these challenges don't start writing rural America's epitaph quite yet. New opportunities are emerging in a rural America primed by resurgences in rural higher education.

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Petrino Mistress Placed On Paid Leave

AP | KURT VOIGT | Posted 04.13.2012

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Arkansas says Jessica Dorrell, the 25-year-old football department employee whose affair with former football coach Bobby Petrin...

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Was Petrino Sexting With Mistress?

Posted 04.11.2012

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The extent of the relationship between ex-Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino and 25-year-old female Arkansas employee Jessica Dorrell was further i...

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Details Emerge Of Petrino's Relationship With Mistress

AP | KURT VOIGT | Posted 04.12.2012

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino went out of his way to refer to his relationship with Jessica Dorrell in the past tens...

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'I Have No One To Blame But Myself'

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 04.11.2012

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-- The statement issued Tuesday night by fired Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino: "I was informed in writing today at 5:45 p.m. that I was being...

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New Details Emerge Of College Football Coach's Motorcycle Crash

AP | KURT VOIGT | Posted 04.06.2012

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas put football coach Bobby Petrino on paid leave Thursday after he failed to disclose he had been riding with a fema...

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Supreme Court Takes On Life-Without-Parole Sentence For Teens Convicted Of Murder

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In 2005, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for minors no matter how heinous the crime. In 2010, the justices drew the same line...

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In The Public Interest : States Make Spending More Transparent, but Some Far Ahead of Others

Phineas Baxandall | Posted 05.20.2012

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Transparency in government expenditures promotes fiscal responsibility, checks corruption, and bolsters public confidence in government. We need more of it.

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Rick Steves' Road Trip: Dry And Humid In Arkansas

Rick Steves | Posted 05.20.2012

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had never been in a dry county before. The human craving for alcohol creates interesting challenges here.

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Girl With Autism Fatally Shot 7-Year-Old Brother

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 05.13.2012

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A 9-year-old girl was responsible for the shooting death of her 7-year-old brother at the family's Arkansas apartment while ...

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Rosanne Cash on Johnny Cash Boyhood Home Restoration Project

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.28.2012

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"Jubilant. Such a thrilling project for my whole family and it was quite and emotional high. I didn't want to feel sad on his birthday. Even though there was poignancy, and a sense of missing him, it was celebratory. He would have loved this project."

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Man Pleads Guilty In Death Of Teen Found In Plastic Barrel

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 02.22.2012

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A convicted rapist accused of killing a 16-year-old girl he met online pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder Wednesday,...

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Moshe Safdie's New Crystal Bridges Museum Wows Viewers

Posted 02.06.2012

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For those familiar with the remote and quiet beauty of the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas, the sudden appearance of the Crystal Bridges Museum of Americ...

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Democratic Operative's Cat Slaughtered, 'Liberal' Painted On The Corpse

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 01.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The race for the Arkansas' third congressional district took a gruesome turn on Sunday, when the campaign manager for Democratic challen...

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Police Seek Suspect In Huckabee Relative's Death

AP | Posted 03.24.2012

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ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — Authorities in Arkansas were searching Sunday for a suspect wanted in a homicide and kidnapping case involving a distant rel...

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Q&A with Joe Berlinger, Director of West Memphis Three Documentary (VIDEO)

Joshua Kors | Posted 03.18.2012

"One of the great ironies of this three-film, two-decade mission is that we thought we were making a film about bad children, the inside story of why kids kill."

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National Human Trafficking Awareness Day: Which States Are Doing Most To Stem Slavery?

Posted 01.11.2012

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National Human Trafficking Awareness Day highlights the fact that it's no longer possible to have a "not in my backyard" attitude about modern-day sla...

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