Dave Baer made the drive from near Ponca to the Carver Center for Public Radio for his first visit to Ozarks at Large. He talks about writing songs and plays a couple as well.
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Becca Martin Brown, with Northwest Arkansas Newspapers, has the plans for Mardi Gras in northwest Arkansas all mapped out.
Arkansas has had high rates of teen pregnancy for decades, but there is reason for some optimism for the future.


Legislators may be getting closer to a compromise on the state's private option, and former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner appears in court for mail fraud charges.



Leslie Yingling with Diversity Affairs at the University of Arkansas has our final story of compassion during Fayetteville's Compassion Month.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, the man who has been intimately connected with the Nobel Peace Prize for the past quarter-century talks about the process for selecting a recipient and some of the controversies associated with the honor.
The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission voted yesterday to plug an underground injection well and declare a permanent moratorium on new ones in Faulkner County, plagued by small earthquakes.
Chris Young, The Imagination Movers, Rick Springfield and the second concert in the KUAF Summer Jazz Concert series coming up at the Walton Arts Center. Jodi Beznoska has the details.
Arkansas has 4200 foster children in state custody. Nearly 300 with emotional or behavioral problems are placed in special therapeutic foster homes to receive intense intervention. But starting this month funding to the program was slashed. (Photo: Brenda and Iesha Watson.)
The Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower can be seen in northwest Arkansas this weekend. For more information, call (479) 789-5000. To download a star map, log on to www.skymaps.com.
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Close to 179 post-offices in Arkansas face a possible shutdown, the Fort Smith Board of Directors meet tomorrow to debate on a proposal to repeal the one percent tax on prepared food and more – on today’s Ozarks at Large Half-Time.