News
Karzai vows war on crooks
2 from U.S. die in suicide attack
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:15 a.m.President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated Thursday for a second term, pledging that Afghanistan will prosecute corrupt officials and control its own security within five years.
GRIDLOCK GURU: Car counts are routine procedure
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:14 a.m.Whiskey-swilling cowboys surely were hired in the Old West to count wagons that rolled past, so Dodge City’s engineers could decide if trails should be widened from two ruts to four.
Lawyer draws ire of judge in lawsuit over poultry litter
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:13 a.m.U.S. District Judge Greg Frizzell on Thursday chastised an attorney representing the state of Oklahoma for overloading the ongoing poultry litter case with paperwork.
Plans call for Beaver Lake watershed partnership
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:12 a.m.Doing nothing about Beaver Lake’s water quality is acceptable only if the lake can’t be improved, a consultant told a group gathered Thursday to plan the creation of a Beaver Watershed Partnership.
Sisters - age 61 and 70 - admit scheme
Women on run since 2004
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:11 a.m.Two sisters who had been on the run from federal authorities for nearly five years when they were arrested in June in Texas have pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the IRS.
Plea for outside aid cites fairness
State police help sought in Ozark
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:10 a.m.The prosecutor for Ozark has requested the Arkansas State Police conduct a criminal investigation into a police officer’s use of a Taser on a 10-year-old girl.
Northwest Arkansas deaths
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:09 a.m.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette publishes, at no charge, death notices of reasonable length for residents of Benton, Carroll, Washington and Madison counties submitted by funeral homes.
The state/region in brief
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:08 a.m.Plea deal struck in spouse slaying A Lone Pine woman charged in the shooting death of her husband has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
NW Arkansas today
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:07 a.m.QUOTE OF THE DAY “Beaver water is the liquid gold for Northwest Arkansas.” George Graen, who lives on Beaver Lake, while a proposal to create a Beaver Watershed Partnership was being discussed Article, 1B
FAA glitch slows air travel
Area airports see few delays from computer failure
Posted: November 20, 2009 6:06 a.m.Air travelers nationwide scrambled to revise their plans Thursday after an FAA computer glitch caused widespread cancellations and delays for the second time in 15 months.
Bill seen as deficit easer
Senate health-care measure’s backers hail report
Posted: November 20, 2009 5:54 a.m.Congressional budget crunchers said Thursday that the Democrats’ latest health-care plan would hold down federal red ink for at least 20 years, an assessment that gave supporters hope as the Senate moved toward a historic debate.
Pakistan bombings kill 21 in two days
8 militant attacks in region in 2 weeks
Posted: November 20, 2009 5:47 a.m.A blast early today killed two police officers a day after a suicide bomber killed 19 people outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan in the latest attacks by Islamist militants retaliating against an army offensive near the Afghan border.
Judge confirmed over GOP objections
Posted: November 20, 2009 5:32 a.m.The Senate confirmed U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton of Indiana to a federal appeals court vacancy, overcoming objections from Republicans who said he embraced a “liberal activist” judicial philosophy.
31 years later, Guyana unveils memorial for Jonestown
Posted: November 20, 2009 5:30 a.m.It has taken more than 30 years, but the government of Guyana has erected a memorial plaque at the site of the Jonestown cult massacre, a dark episode the South American country had long sought to downplay.
Tokyo tops Paris in Michelin Guide’s restaurant rankings
Posted: November 20, 2009 5:28 a.m.The Epicurean king who oversees the Michelin Guide fears he may be banished from France.