Reporter, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Northwest Arkansas
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Thousands of glass-plate negatives that belonged to the late Heber Springs photographer Mike Disfarmer are the focus of a lawsuit filed last month in federal court in Little Rock by the special administrator of Disfarmer's estate.
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What Arkansas musician recorded the song Cummins Prison Farm two decades before becoming the first person charged under a 1989 state "drug kingpin law" targeting crime rings? If you know the answer, you might want to take a shot at the EOA's new quizzes. arkansasonline.com/news/2024…
True or false: An Arkansan played three roles in Edwin S. Porter's 1903 silent film "The Great Train Robbery," which is considered a foundational movie for modern filmmaking. If you know the answer, you might want to take a shot at the EOAs new quizzes. arkansasonline.com/news/2024…
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An Arkansan who pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot was released from federal custody on Monday. @billbowden reports. tinyurl.com/4ws67dpf #ARNews #Jan6
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In Marvell, the small Arkansas Delta town where the late Levon Helm of The Band came from, is the scene of an all-day festival Saturday. The Levon Helm Down Home Jubilee opens with the Marvell Drumline from 1:15-1:30 p.m., followed by Detroit Johnny & Carla Robinson from 2-2:35 p.m.; Big T Williams & Carla Robinson from 2:40-3:15 p.m.; Barnes Brothers from 3:30-4:15 p.m.; Collins & Roche from 6:15-6:45 p.m.; and the Levon Helm Family Midnight Ramble Band featuring Amy Helm from 7:30-9 p.m., at 902 Carruth Ave. (870) 338-8327; levonhelmjubilee.com. Admission is free.
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Eureka Springs has one of the largest zombie parades in the world, attracting 20,000 a few years ago. “We probably have more zombies per capita than any other city,” said Jeff Danos, co-founder of the crawl. arkansasonline.com/news/2024… @MorbidPsych
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The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been announced — and one of the winners is from Little Rock. @billbowden reports. arkansasonline.com/news/2024… #ARNews
Little Rock native shares in this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry. arkansasonline.com/news/2024…
The Third Reich seized her grandmother's silver in 1939. On Thursday, a museum curator from Germany traveled to Little Rock to return one of those items — a silver goblet — to a descendant. arkansasonline.com/news/2024…
Canoe rental and shuttle prices on the Buffalo National River are about to go up — WAY up! Unless something changes. arkansasonline.com/news/2024…
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A silver goblet, stolen by the Nazis in 1939, was presented to a woman in Arkansas. It had belonged to her grandmother. For 85 years, the goblet had been at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, Germany. That is, until Matthias Weniger, a museum curator, brought it to Arkansas. Weniger is on a mission to distribute 111 items in the museum’s collection to descendants of Jews who’d had the items confiscated by the Third Reich. @Billbowden reports.
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Ainsley Platt on the big dam ruckus on Bayou Des Arc: arkansasonline.com/news/2024…@?@billbowden @ainsleyplatt
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Yankees catcher Bill Dickey of Arkansas, soon to retire as a player, tutored then-rookie Yogi Berra in fundamentals. Naturally, the Yogi Berra
Museum in Little Falls, New Jersey, included several Bill Dickey artifacts in the museum as a tribute to Mr. Dickey. #ARnews #Arkansas #SABR
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.@maddow — host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC and the MSNBC podcast “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra” — has an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times. The Arkansas Factor? The man she mentions in the first paragraph retired to Eureka Springs, built the Christ of the Ozarks Statue and started the Great Passion Play. nytimes.com/2024/08/19/opini… #ARnews
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@myARDOT honored to help with road closures as the military lands a C-130 on Highway 63 in Bono, Arkansas. They needed practice landing on such a roadway in case of a real emergency.
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Arkansan Bill Dickey is well-represented in the Yankees Museum at Yankee Stadium. Plus, he’s among the honorees in Monument Park behind center field.
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The lineup for this year’s Hot Springs Baseball Weekend is set. It includes a documentary on Yogi Berra; panel discussions with Hall of Famers Robin Yount, Goose Gossage, Ted Simmons and Johnny Bench; a meeting of the Society for American Baseball Research, with Babe Ruth author Frank Amoroso; and a baseball card show.
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Razorback Clyde "Smackover" Scott is known as a great football player, but he was an Olympian in track and field! Scott (left) brought home the silver medal in the 110-meter hurdle race in 1948.
Take a break from watching the 2024 games to learn more at tinyurl.com/3s52neyd
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A federal judge who presided over Richard "Bigo" Barnett's trial has ordered the Probation Office to prepare a revised sentencing guidelines calculation assuming that one of eight charges under which Barnett was convicted is vacated on appeal. @billbowden reports. tinyurl.com/5bpkdee7 #ARNews #ARPX #Jan6th
