Content Tagged 'Arkansas'

Seniors Randall Fant and Matt Vinson made their last regular season start at Baum Stadium a memorable one on Sunday as the two seniors led No. 14 Arkansas to a series-clinching 10-2 win over Tennessee at Baum Stadium.

Communities across the state plan special events as part of their local celebrations.

Signs blasting ExxonMobil and trumpeting clean energy were held high as speakers called for unity during a rally to mark the one-month anniversary of an oil spill that rocked the Mayflower community.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- It's been four weeks since oil began flowing from a ruptured pipeline in Mayflower. Since then, much of the focus has been on the Northwoods subdivision where the spill originated.

CONWAY, AR_ Toad Suck Days wrapped up on Sunday.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR_North Little Rock School District says farewell to superintendent.

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- A controversial issue involving the drinking supply for nearly a half million Central Arkansans came to a vote Tuesday evening. Pulaski County Quorum Court passed new restrictions on landowners living in the Lake Maumelle watershed.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- An official with Central Arkansas Water spoke Monday on the agency's worries about the proximity of an oil pipeline to one of the most important resources in the region.

The oil spill in Mayflower has water managers and local politicians worried about one of Central Arkansas's most important resources.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- For two and a half weeks, crews have been working day and night to deal with the oil spill that soiled a Mayflower neighborhood.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- The head of a powerful congressional committee visited Mayflower Sunday to get a look at the community where a pipeline burst March 29th spilling thousands of barrels of crude oil.

University of Arkansas women’s basketball coach Tom Collen announced the signing of Jessica Jackson to a National Letter of Intent to join the Razorbacks in the fall.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- Crews operating a backhoe on Saturday worked to scoop up trees and brush, loading the oil-ruined vegetation into a giant chipper to be reduced to mulch and sent away to a landfill.

LITTLE ROCK,AR- Arkansans celebrated the Tenth Annual Earth Day for the Natural State. At the event, participants learned how to go green.

The editor of a local publication is retracting a move she called an exercise of free speech.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- Exxon Mobil documents released by the federal agency investigating the spill of an estimated 5,000 gallons of oil into a residential neighborhood here spell out a litany of dangerous compounds associated that particular type of crude.

For the first time Sunday, journalists were allowed inside the Mayflower neighborhood where an estimated 2,000 barrels of crude oil rushed from a ruptured pipeline. Even after more than 48 hours of around-the-clock work, much of the neighborhood remained a gooey mess.

Bipartisan national political magazine, Campaigns & Elections, has completed a list of 500 influential political insiders and the names of several Arkansas Republican and Democratic consultants and politicos made the cut.

The unemployment rate in Arkansas saw a slight increase in January.

Inside the Northwoods subdivision crews continued work Monday to clean up roads and driveways that were blanketed in oil when a 20 inch pipeline carrying heavy crude ruptured Friday afternoon.

Ten death row inmates, led by convicted killer Jack Harold Jones, have not been executed all because of wording in a state statute.

A picture of an alleged giant 45 pound rattlesnake has been circulating around the internet and on our newscasts. Some call it a hoax. Some say it's legit.

The Natural State's former first daughter will be honored for her contributions to the performing arts at Ballet Arkansas' Spring Gala in April.

It's not the best two seconds in your life, but getting the flu shot protects you from feeling much worse. It may keep you alive!

The final numbers for 2012 show 131 positive cases compared to just 60 in 2011.

"It's a major inconvenience," said John Doherty of the road block he encounters every time he leaves his home off Durham Road road in Mayflower. "I can wait 20 or 30 minutes to get through the line."

Frustration boiled over Tuesday evening during a private meeting attended by residents of the Northwood subdivision and representatives of ExxonMobil.

The diamond-themed banner made its debut in 1913.

MAYFLOWER, AR -- Since the very first day of the oil cleanup effort here, there has been a lot of concern about oil traveling north from marshes near Lake Conway into the open waters of the popular fishing lake.

A rainy, cold morning didn't stop Santa's elves from making a delivery, dropping off bicycles to the bright-eyed Egeston boys.

For the fourth year in a row, Arkansas Freethinkers are showcasing their beliefs on the south side of the state Capitol.

The Arkansas-Kentucky game has been terminated due to weather conditions.

A judge in central Arkansas has ordered votes to not be counted or certified for a former state lawmaker who resigned this year after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit election fraud.

Two small earthquakes have been reported in central Arkansas.

The study puts the patient-to-doctor ratio at 169 residents to one doctor per 100,000 people.

The state's largest insurance program, known as Medicaid, is at a tipping point -- on the brink of collapse -- if there's no additional money to fund it.

The National Transportation Safety Board says pilot error led to a fatal plane crash in northern Arkansas that killed two men in 2010.

Monday night, the Arkansas Republican Party announced it will no longer financially contribute the campaigns of three candidates running for the state legislature.

The number of Arkansas public school students taking Advanced Placement exams rose in 2012 and the scores improved — according to a report by the College Board released by the state Department of Education.

A Louisiana deputy sheriff who was shot and killed in the line of duty was a former student at Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia.

The unemployment rate in Arkansas has dropped to 7.1%, according to the Department of Workforce Services.

University of Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson has been named one of 15 finalists for the 2012 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, it was announced Thursday.

For years, the Med Center in Memphis served as the closest trauma hospital. That long trip cost many lives.

Wednesday, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department announced Arkansas' highways will soon have nearly four-hundred miles of new cable median barriers, in part, to prevent deadly crossover accidents.

Arkansas GOP chairman elected to unprecedented third consecutive term.

Arkansas' top Democrats are trying to prevent a Republican takeover of the state by alleging that the GOP wants to nationalize this year's election and make the state Legislature as gridlocked as Congress.

State Rep. Jon Hubbard wrote a book in which he says that slavery: "may actually have been a blessing in disguise."

Connor Shaw threw for two touchdowns and ran for another score as No. 12 South Carolina beat Arkansas 38-20 on Saturday.

Not even a week after President Obama issued that challenge to kick off his second term, people in twenty-two states -- including Arkansas -- have launched petitions to withdraw from the United States and form a new government.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has won Arkansas' six electoral votes.