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by catherine dodge bloomberg news
Friday, July 3, 2009
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s health committee released a new healthcare overhaul plan that would cover almost all Americans, in part by assessing fees on companies that don’t offer insurance, and would cost almost $400 billion less than an earlier proposal.
by jason straziuso the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan.
by lara jakes the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
President Barack Obama said Thursday that he’s uneasy about his own proposal to indefinitely imprison some of the most dangerous terror suspects being held now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
by julie hirschfeld davis the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
A top Republican pressed for more information Thursday about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s ties to a Puerto Rican civil-rights group he said took extreme positions on race, as the White House argued that the material was irrelevant to the judge’s nomination.
by ellen nakashima the washington post
Friday, July 3, 2009
The Obama administration will proceed with a Bush-era plan to use National Security Agency assistance in screening government computer traffic on private-sector networks, with AT&T as the likely test site, according to three current and former government officials.
By Michael Wickline
Friday, July 3, 2009
In the fiscal year that ended Tuesday, Arkansas’ general revenue collections dropped $13.8 million below the previous year but were $23 million above the state’s forecast.
By Charlie Frago
Friday, July 3, 2009
A legislative committee Thursday signed off on the newly hired lottery chief’s plan to pay his top deputies more than $200,000 each.
By Jacob Quinn Sanders
Friday, July 3, 2009
A Little Rock district judge denied bail Thursday morning for the fourth teenage boy charged in the Tuesday afternoon killing of a 67-year-old man in his southwest Little Rock home during a robbery.
By Linda Satter
Friday, July 3, 2009
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission won a $7.3 million judgment in a lawsuit it filed to recoup the value of dead and dying timber in Clay, Randolph and Greene counties that it blamed on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ water-management policies.
By John Krupa
Friday, July 3, 2009
A law professor and the former student he sued alleging she defamed him will soon be colleagues at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock’s law school.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Friday, July 3, 2009
Information for the obituaries and funeral notices below was supplied to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Advertising Department by funeral homes.
by john kass chicago tribune
Friday, July 3, 2009
It’s amusing to watch the Washington political establishment feign shock, now that President Barack Obama’s reform administration has used a clay foot to vigorously kick one inspector general and boot another out the door.
by jane musgrave cox newspapers
Friday, July 3, 2009
I’ve long ago forgiven airlines for charging me an extra $15 to satisfy my need to pack my clothes in a suitcase when I travel. While I sometimes miss those free bags of peanuts, these days I just stick my nose in a magazine when flight attendants hawking $7 snack packs squeeze down the aisle.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Friday, July 3, 2009
SOMETIMES things are just meant to be. Or maybe not meant to be. And it seems that Miss Wilburette—great, big, scrumptious-looking thing that she is—just wasn’t meant to be bacon.
the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
Richard Williams refuses to watch his daughters Venus and Serena play each other. He says he simply can’t bear to see it, no matter the setting, no matter the stage.
By Doug Crise
Friday, July 3, 2009
People forget that Peyton Hillis used to be quite the ballplayer.
By Marty Cook
Friday, July 3, 2009
The latest in a series profiling new additions for the Arkansas football team in 2009.
the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
The current edition of Wimbledon is the 23rd Grand Slam tournament since Andy Roddick won his lone major championship at the 2003 U.S. Open.
By Doug Crise
Friday, July 3, 2009
Gary Smith, founder of the Firecracker Fast 5K, likes to joke that he’ll change things up one of these years and make everyone run the course in the opposite direction.
By Matt Harris
Friday, July 3, 2009
Roughly 26,000 acres of crops were damaged by hail from a storm that rolled over Lonoke County on Tuesday, compounding problems for some farmers already struggling to catch up after May rainfall put them far behind schedule.
by bree fowler the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
An attorney for General Motors urged a bankruptcy judge Thursday to approve the automaker’s sale plan, saying that the only other alternative would be a liquidation of the company’s assets that would have “horrific” consequences.
democrat-gazette press services
Friday, July 3, 2009
Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate climbed to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
By Matt Harris
Friday, July 3, 2009
Arkansas wheat led a 49 percent growth in the state’s agricultural exports in 2008 to $3.2 billion, mirroring a national trend in rising shipments of grain abroad, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture figures released this week.
By Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports
Friday, July 3, 2009
The banks want more money, and they’ve found a way to get it: by raising account fees.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Friday, July 3, 2009
The Bountiful Arkansas Day event at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute atop Petit Jean Mountain is designed to give the public an opportunity to taste and learn about produce grown in Arkansas, according to a story in Saturday’s HomeStyle section.
By Philip Martin
Friday, July 3, 2009
All right, it’s summer. And it’s a kids movie. It’s all about cute and cuddly, Happy Meal-ready characters who can be transposed easily in video games and other ancillary merchandise.
by christy lemire the associated press
Friday, July 3, 2009
With Public Enemies, all the pieces would seem to be in place for an epic gangster drama: director Michael Mann, who has an affinity for complicated criminals; stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, who are famous for immersing themselves in their roles; and a thrilling true story of brazen bank robbers on the run.
by a. o. scott the new york times
Friday, July 3, 2009
My problem with Whatever Works, the new movie from Woody Allen, is not that the premise is a wee bit familiar. It’s that the delivery is off.
By Philip Martin
Friday, July 3, 2009
More than 40 years’ worth of movie-watching piles up in your head. Things are forgotten. Other things get manufactured. Memory is an unreliable narrator. I envy friends who have clear recall of movies they saw 20 or 30 or 50 years ago, but my brain doesn’t work that way.
By Richard Davenport
Friday, July 3, 2009
Arkansas basketball Coach John Pelphrey’s interest in finding a big guard is a plus for Conway’s Preston Purifoy.
By Linda Caillouet
Friday, July 3, 2009
FROM THE MOON TO HERE: A heads-up to the young, hip music lovers among us. LAbased pop-rock chart-maker Thriving Ivory (“Angels on the Moon” ) performs for free beginning between 6:30 and 7 p.m. at the Bryant Family Fest today at Mills Park Road. A word to the wise: Get there way early.
By Philip Martin
Friday, July 3, 2009
More than 40 years’ worth of movie-watching piles up in your head. Things are forgotten. Other things get manufactured. Memory is an unreliable narrator. I envy friends who have clear recall of movies they saw 20 or 30 or 50 years ago, but my brain doesn’t work that way.
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