Judge Leon Holmes rejects former state treasurer Martha Shoffner's guilty plea after being unsatisfied with her testimony regarding activities that led to her indictment. Senator Mark Pryor lashes out with his own ad against negative publicity regarding his voting record on gun control. Governor Mike Beebe lauds the state's Unemployment Insurance Program for bouncing back after running out of money a few years ago. Ozark Regional Transit offers free rides throughout the summer to children aged 17 and under. And Tyson Foods acquires a California-based ethnic food operation.
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Becca Martin Brown of NWA Newspapers tells us about a nationally juried art exhibition that's coming to Fayetteville this week to commemorate women taking flight throughout aviation history.

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Governor Mike Beebe announced his appointee to replace Martha Shoffner as State Treasurer after her resignation last week. The Bentonville city council approves thousands of dollars worth of repair work to a flood-damaged trail. A Rogers elementary school gets a new fitness course through a joint-use grant with the city. And Arkansas' only contestant in the Scripps National Spelling Bee moves forward to the second round of competition today.

Here are the selections for our montage dedicated to the number five:
Apologies to: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Pentagon and Subway restaurants with their five-dollar-footlong jingle.
- "Beethoven's Fifth" as performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- George Brett (#5 for the Kansas City Royals) hits a home run in the 1984 All-Star Game
- The Vogues sing "Five O'clock World"
- How to use the fifth amendment in a congressional hearing
- School House Rock's take on the number five, as sung by native Arkansan Bob Dorough
- A scene from the Britich series MI-5
- The Fifth Dimension sings "One Less Egg to Fry"
- Jach Nicholson orders breakfast his way in Five Easy Pieces
- Lou Bega's dance hig "Mambo No. 5"
- Jack Lord gives his famous line from Hawaii 5-0
Apologies to: Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Brooks Robinson, the chemical element boron, Kurt Vonnegut, the Pentagon and Subway restaurants with their five-dollar-footlong jingle.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Monday, April 14, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, a Pea Ridge family works to bring a family member home, a new trail lets walkers, runners and cyclists see a part of northwest Arkansas that's pretty much been a secret, and the lowdown on voodoo from a guest speaker who visited the University of Arkansas campus late last week.
The 15th annual Komen Ozark Race for the Cure is later this month.
"Taxman" by Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
Gloria Goodwin Raheja is a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota and spoke on the University of Arkansas campus this spring. Her upcoming book is titled Logan County Blues: Frank Hutchison in the Sonic Landscape of the Appalachian Coalfields, which explores the injustices committed by the coal mining companies against coal miners, and how the miners fought against the companies through music.
Tartufi is a trio from San Francisco coming to Nightbird Books in Fayetteville tomorrow night. Their latest CD is “These Factory Days.” As OAL’s Katy Henriksen reports, the trio… made up of Lynne Angel, Brian Gorman and Ben Thorne… doesn’t always do things conventionally.
This week the staff of the Fayetteville Public Library asked customers: what do you want next?
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"Architect" by Trey Anastasio
Christina Thomas visits Timothy Nutt, head of special collections for the University of Arkansas library. Nutt says that the library's collections are directly affected by the death of letter writing.