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At the pearly gates, one possible answer

Things were going so well for my dad. His first child was a sweet, intelligent, thoughtful girl, someone he could reason with, who responded to logic and kne...

It's Thursday and another chance to fire off a few up or down thumbs about some of news developments in our neck of the woods and elsewhere.

Why is the Legislature a barrier to protection?

It looks like a couple of new additions are coming to the cool kids' table, otherwise known as the Southeastern Conference.

How one measures up depends a lot on what yardstick one uses.

It's been a long while since I've watched the Olympics.

Doug White, president and general manager of the Arkansas Livestock Show Association, shakes his head as he describes his decision to cancel that great tradi...

Gov. Asa Hutchinson and the state's epidemiologist got shouted at Monday at a covid town-hall meeting in Mountain Home.

Quorum Court members decline aid to businesses

A huge test of congressional credibility began this week with the convening of the select committee on the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Surely by now, everyone has noticed those in today's America who seek to further divide us to enhance their own political power and erase our constitutional ...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders explained to Fox News the other day that more people would get vaccinated against covid if the Democrats would kneel before her cult l...

On Aug. 6, 1945, a single B-29 dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, a city of 400,000. Moments later the entire city, three miles across, lay in ruins. On A...

Confession: I'm in favor of "voter suppression." Not by the government, but by the weather.