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The Smoking Gun website has the rather dirty dirt on a Fort Smith employment agency robbery that was reported to police last Friday. Along with taking electronics, hand tools and blank payroll checks, the perp left obscene messages scrawled around the office, including one written in red lipstick on the female owner's desk. The content of at least one of those messages , if the act descri...
Arkansas Daily Blog - Wed 11:12 p.m. - 2 clicks 
Big news is breaking tonight. But there's no bigger news than the state's failure to look after children. We've been tussling for weeks to get the so-called Arkansas Human Services Department to provide more information about the four deaths of children in the state's custody this year. DHS has been stonewalling and Gov. Mike Beebe, the putative leader of the state, has shown little interest in g...
Arkansas Daily Blog - Wed 5:20 p.m.
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families provides the sobering bottom line on new Census data: Arkansans earn less today, on average, than they did at the beginning of the decade, after incomes are adjusted for inflation. And fewer have health insurance. (Not to worry about the top 1 percent. Bush's tax cuts have poured down on them like a mighty river, even if not even a trick...
Arkansas Daily Blog - Wed 8:57 a.m. - 5 clicks
The slow-motion collapse of the U.S. banking industry continues, and the little guys -- as always -- are the ones getting shafted. Case in point: a class-action lawsuit filed yesterday by employees of ANB Financial in Fayetteville, who saw their retirement plans evaporate after the bank closed May 9. Plantiffs estimate their losses at $56.3 million. Roby Brock's talkbusiness.net...
Arkansas Daily Blog - Wed 8:57 a.m. - 3 clicks
