The Arkansas Attorney General's office says fraud, especially schemes aimed at seniors, continues.
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The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department continues to deal with iced-over highways across the state, while an annual tree-planting event gears up for this year's event set for this weekend.
In its second year, the Sustainable Cities Program of the UA's Applied Sustainability Center expanded to include seven more diverse Arkansas cities.
Here are the references we used in our montage honoring the birthday of Dr. Seuss.
- Seussical the Musical
- Horton Hears a Who
- "Get Together Weather" 5000 fingers of Dr. T
- "Oh the Places You'll Go" read by John Lithgow
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- The Lorax
- The Cat in the Hat
- "Grinch 2000" Busta Rhymes ft. Jim Carey
The state's Private Option saga continues, the state Supreme Court hears arguments in a case involving a major pharmaceutical company, and an Arkansas-based company announces the latest in a string of layoffs. Those stories and more in this morning's Week in Review.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: it has been 60 years since the largest-ever nuclear weapons test by the United States took place on the Marshall Islands' Bikini Atoll. Today, many Marshallese, including several northwest Arkansas residents, are marking the anniversary of the Castle Bravo Blast. Plus, Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers gets us ready for the weekend, Michael Tilley from The City Wire helps us analyze the week's news, and more.
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.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks at Large, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission makes strides towards the purchase of new land in Newton County in hopes of developing more of a presence in that area. Plus, portions of a sizable rewards grant are awarded to schools in perhaps an unlikely district. And we'll speak with members of the regional champion archery team to learn how they mark their anchors and more.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks, an update on HIV services in northwest Arkansas, and a review of the latest release by St. Paul and the Broken Bones.
February numbers show that dollar amounts paid to crime victims in one county add up to nearly 25% of the total paid out in the state. We speak with the director of the Arkansas Crime Reparations Board.
Severe weather is always expected, no matter the season. And hundreds of thousands of volunteer storm spotters are in the field, trained by National Weather Service meteorologists to assist in hazardous weather monitoring. (Photo: SkyWarn workshop in Ozark, Franklin County)
Among many nonprofit events in the region this April will be Butterflies and Blooms benefitting Saving Grace, an organization that helps girls who have aged out of foster care.
"Saving Grace" by Point of Grace
Becca Martin Brown has more on The Addams Family's visit to the River Valley.
at end of show: "Look at Me Fly" by Stoney LaRue
