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Following a recent Supreme Court ruling regarding the Defense of Marriage Act, two lawsuits are underway in Arkansas. KUAR's Karen Tricot Steward has more.
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Meredith Martin Moats begins a book review series on Arkansas books, written in not so recent years.
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The Fort Smith office of the Arkansas Workers' Compensation Commission is slated for closure sometime in the next year. Entergy has announced plans to lay off hundreds of workers across the country, and some of those layoffs will occur at Arkansas Nuclear One in Russellville. State economic development officials meet with representatives of the Quapaw Tribe regarding archaeological artifacts at the site of the Big River Steel construction site in Osceola.
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A sizable grant from the Walmart Foundation will help the NWA Children's Shelter continue to provide essential services for the area's children. The Benton County assessor's and collector's office in Gravette will soon move. The City of Fayetteville installs a charging station for electric vehicles, only the fifth in NWA. And a religious scholar weighs in on Pope Francis's recent comments in Brazil regarding homosexuals.
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Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, why hundreds of people will be in Rogers this weekend to trade frags, or sections of coral. Plus, we speak to the former First Minister of Scotland about contemporary education.
The Fort Smith Convention and Visitors Bureau recently honored the recipients of the organization's GRIT Awards.
The laser has been a part of our lives for just over fifty years.
Becca Martin Brown has What’s Up with musical acts for the next few days.
“Down in the Valley” by The Head & The Heart, and at end of show: "Feel the Love" by GRiZ
The week's headlines were filled with stories of one senator's emergency heart surgery, and with several lawsuits at the state level.
P3 Waste Consulting has helped develop a program for Mercy Hospital in Rogers to recycle blue wrap used to keep surgical instruments sterile.