State News
Beebe: State Democratic Party chair recommended LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Gov. Mike Beebe has offered his recommendation as to who should lead the state Democratic Party after last month's shooting death of Chairman Bill Gwatney. Former Arkansas band director sentenced OXFORD, Miss. - A former Arkansas band director has been sentenced to four years in prison for possession of more than 197 pictures of child pornography. Ark. St. tries to avoid letdown in home opener LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas State still has 11 games remaining in the regular season. The sooner everyone realizes that, the happier coach Steve Roberts will be. Ark. Supreme Court passes on Throneberry case LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas Supreme Court declined Thursday to review an appeals court decision allowing a woman sentenced in the bludgeoning death of her husband to serve less prison time. Judge sentences Jonesboro shooter to 4 years FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Mitchell Johnson, who as a teen helped shoot and kill five people in a schoolyard ambush in Jonesboro, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison on an unrelated federal weapons charge. Ark. Supreme Court declines to hear execution suit LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas Supreme Court justices declined Thursday to speed up a lawsuit over the state's lethal injection procedures, halting an execution scheduled for next week. Workers restoring power after Gustav leaves Ark. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Utility crews hustled to restore electricity across Arkansas on Thursday, reconnecting homes and businesses that lost power when the remnants of Hurricane Gustav lashed the state with high winds and nearly a foot of rain. Wal-Mart acting on shifts in consumer spending ROGERS, Ark. - If the mood on Wall Street is grim, then consumers must be feeling even more bleak, right? Louisiana-Monroe has Arkansas' attention LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino probably won't have to worry about his team's focus this weekend. Longtime Blytheville salesman still going strong BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. - Many things have changed in Blytheville in the past 55 years. Leon Jones is not one of them. Game 1 to Travelers in all-Arkansas series NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wil Ortiz hit a two-run single, part of an eighth-inning rally that sent the Arkansas Travelers to a 4-1 win over the Northwest Arkansas Naturals in Game 1 of their playoff series Thursday night. Friday's Scores Bald Knob 32, Bauxite 16 Ark. AG's office to reopen after fire LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas attorney general's office will reopen Friday after it was shut down this week because of an electrical fire. Tennessee lottery numbers NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Here are the winning numbers selected Thursday in the Tennessee state lottery: Ark. Children's Hospital cheers $115M expansion LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A $115 million expansion that will allow for the care of thousands more patients is coming to Arkansas Children's Hospital. Trial date set in elderly couple's slaying NASHVILLE, Ark. - A man charged with capital murder for the slaying of an elderly couple in Howard County is to go to trial Dec. 10.
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