OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Arkansas scored four fifth-inning runs against a faltering Luke Heimlich and moved a step closer to its first national championship in baseball with a 4-1 win over Oregon State in Game 1 of the College World Series finals Tuesday night. The finals opener, delayed a day because of rain, seemed to […]
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Former Arkansas coach, AD Frank Broyles dies at 92
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Frank Broyles, who guided the University of Arkansas to its lone national football championship and later molded the overall program as its athletic director, died Monday at the age of 92. Broyles died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement from his family. “He passed peacefully in his home […]
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Arkansas conducts nation’s 1st double execution since 2000
VARNER, Ark. (AP) — After going nearly 12 years without executing an inmate, Arkansas now has executed three in a few days — including two in one night. Jack Jones and Marcel Williams received lethal injections on the same gurney Monday night, just about three hours apart. It was the first double execution in the […]
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Arkansas executing the guilty and innocent
Nearly three dozen men sit on death row in Arkansas, where capital punishment has been suspended since 2005. Unless clemency is granted, seven of them, an eighth man was granted a temporary reprieve, will be given lethal injections all within a 10-day period, between April 17 and 27. Why so many? Why the rush? The […]
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Lucille Bailey Welch
1922 – 2016 AUBURN — Lucille Bailey Welch, 94, formerly of Lewiston, passed away peacefully Monday, March 21, at the Hospice House, following a long illness. She was born in Yarmouth on Jan. 18, 1922, the daughter of Charles and Marjorie (Fessenden) Bailey. Lucille was educated in Auburn schools, and graduated from Edward Little High […]
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St. Patrick’s Church bell sold
LEWISTON — The former St. Patrick’s Church no longer has its bell. Workers removed the massive, 128-year-old bronze bell from the church bell tower Friday morning, inching it along a platform before connecting it to a crane and lowering it to a waiting flatbed truck. On the ground, a section of Bates Street was shut […]
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Susan L. Mahar Eads
1948 – 2014 FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Susan Louise Mahar Eads died peacefully in her sleep on Dec. 5, 2014, at her home in Fayetteville, Ark., due to complications of cancer. Susan was born in Lewiston in 1948, the youngest of four girls and two boys.
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Crews search for missing after tornadoes hit Texas, Arkansas
VAN, Texas — Emergency responders searched through wreckage in parts of Texas and Arkansas early Monday after a line of tornadoes battered several small communities, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others. As many as 10 people were still missing at daybreak, raising the possibility that the number of dead could climb. […]
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Herbert E. West
1923 – 2015 FARMINGTON — Herbert E. “Gene” West, 91, of Jay quietly went home late Saturday evening, March 14, at Sandy River Living Center in Farmington. Herbert was born Aug. 20, 1923, a son of Lawrence and Nettie Mae West. He grew up on a farm in Arkansas with his siblings, until he joined the […]
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Was LePage right on Medicaid expansion? Republicans, officials divided
AUGUSTA — Officials in the state of Arkansas are saying “not so fast” to claims being made by leaders in Maine’s Republican Party that an expansion of Arkansas’s Medicaid program has led that state to fiscal crisis and Maine was wise not to expand its low-income health care program. Amy Webb, communications director for the […]