Powerball gets lottery panel's number
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 04:05 a.m.
The Arkansas lottery will participate in the multistate Powerball game, which offers an average jackpot of about $136 million, the Arkansas Lottery Commission decided Wednesday.
Proposals roll in for charter schools in state
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 04:00 a.m.
KIPP Delta Inc., the sponsor of a high-performing charter school system in Helena-West Helena, is one of 12 organizations taking preliminary steps to open charter schools across Arkansas in 2010.
UPDATE: Slaying an afterthought to LR robbery, police say
Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 04:07 a.m.
All that the four teenage boys wanted to do, Little Rock police say, was rob the old man and scare him a little.


