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☆ No Apparent Motive in Arkansas Shooting, but the Reaction Is ‘So Personal’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But the officers in the town of 3,400 who rushed there and eventually subdued the assailant could not have felt more connected. “They knew everyone personally, from the suspect to the victims on scene,” said Col. Mike Hagar, the director of the Arkansas State Police. Officers arrived at the Mad Butcher grocery store three minutes after the first shot was fired, then took down the gunman five minutes later. An additional person was identified late Saturday as having been injured by the gunman, bringing the total to 10. Of the five people who remained hospitalized, one woman was still in critical condition at a hospital in Little Rock, Mr. Hagar said.

Persons: ”, Mike Hagar, Mad Butcher, Callie Weems, Roy Sturgis, Shirley Taylor, Ellen Shrum, Hagar Organizations: Arkansas State Police, Mad Locations: Fordyce, Ark, Little Rock

☆ 2 Dead and 8 Injured in Shooting at Arkansas Grocery Store
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Jesus Jiménez | More About Jesus Jiménez | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Two people were killed and eight others injured in a shooting on Friday morning at a grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., the police said. A shooter opened fire at the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce in Central Arkansas about 11:30 a.m., the Arkansas State Police said in a statement. The shooter, whose name was not released, was shot by the police and critically injured before being taken into custody, the police said. Eight people, including a law enforcement officer, were injured in the shooting. The officer had injuries that were not life-threatening.

Persons: Mad Butcher Organizations: Mad, Arkansas State Police Locations: Fordyce, Ark, Central Arkansas

☆ Tyson Foods Suspends Executive After Second Alcohol-Related Arrest
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Alexandra E. Petri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A top executive at Tyson Foods who is a fourth-generation member of the Tyson family business was suspended on Thursday after he was charged with driving while intoxicated, the company said in a statement. John Randal Tyson, 34, the company’s chief financial officer and a great-grandson of Tyson’s founder, was arrested in Fayetteville, Ark., by the University of Arkansas Police Department and booked at the Washington County jail at about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, jail records show. It was the second time in less than two years that Mr. Tyson had been charged with an alcohol-related offense. Mr. Tyson, whose father is Tyson’s chairman, was named the company’s chief financial officer in September 2022. He had been in his position just over a month when he was arrested in November 2022, after a woman called the police to report that she had returned to her home in Fayetteville to find him asleep in her bed, The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reported.

Persons: Tyson, John Randal Tyson, Tyson’s Organizations: Tyson Foods, University of Arkansas Police Department, Arkansas Democrat Locations: Fayetteville, Ark, Washington, Arkansas

☆ Hostage rescue operation and Israeli political turmoil sharpen Biden’s damaging dilemma
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —President Joe Biden’s power to engineer a swift abatement of the war between Israel and Hamas just suffered two serious new blows. • The rescue mission also emphasizes the disparity in the death toll between Palestinians and Israelis in the conflict. • The absence of Gantz may also create an even greater obstacle to approval of any peace deal between Israel and Hamas. • The fracturing of the Israeli war cabinet and Gantz’s call for elections could have unpredictable consequences in Israel amid rising protests against Netanyahu. That is tragic.”But the national security adviser’s comments will do nothing to ease Biden’s domestic political exposure over the war.

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☆ Analysis: Another trial, this one of Biden’s son, will deepen the election’s legal entanglement
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Four days after presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump was convicted on 34 counts in his hush money trial in New York, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will be called to answer for federal gun charges in Wilmington, Delaware. But a CBS/YouGov poll released Sunday showed that Americans believe 57% to 43% that the Manhattan jury reached the right verdict. His inflammatory remarks did not reflect the fact that his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and his demagoguery are far more reflective of developing-world banana republics than a fair jury trial. Hunter Biden is entitled to the same presumption of innocence and a trial by a jury of his peers that Trump was. “I’d rather be on President Biden’s side of that contrast than on the extreme MAGA Republican side,” he said.

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☆ We were paid $10,000 to move from Austin to Arkansas. It wasn't perfect, but we have no regrets.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Alisha Mcdarris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewNearly every time I mentioned my impending move to Arkansas, I was asked, "Why there?" It was a curious choice, especially considering I was leaving bustling and lively Austin for Fayetteville, Arkansas, a city known for little more than historical monuments and college football. After all, the cost of living in the Texas city was rapidly rising and we craved more adventure and outdoors than Austin's manicured parks and overcrowded campsites could offer. Related storiesAnd maybe Arkansas wasn't that big of a jump, anyway. In the end, we left Arkansas after 15 months and moved to a small city near the Wasatch Mountains in Utah.

Persons: —, Alisha McDarris, we'd, honked, isn't, Jason Cameron Organizations: Service, Business, Arkansas Council, Arkansas Razorback, Getty Locations: Arkansas, Austin, Fayetteville , Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas, Texas, Atlas, Bentonville, Utah, Our Arkansas

☆ Hunter Biden tries again to delay gun trial two weeks before start date
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Marshall Cohen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Hunter Biden is once again trying to delay his fast-approaching trial on felony gun charges, which is scheduled to begin in two weeks. In addition to the gun case, Biden is facing a federal tax indictment in California. He is also pursuing appeals in that case and trying to delay that trial, which is scheduled to begin in late June after the expected conclusion of the gun trial. The saga put President Biden in an uncomfortable spot, and he publicly acknowledged his granddaughter for the first time last summer. In addition, they want to ask whether potential jurors have ever bought a gun and how they feel about various restrictions on gun possession.

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☆ The South’s hidden gems? Its diverse gas stations, according to this photographer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Kate MedleyThe Obama Gas Station in Columbia, South Carolina, got its name in 2008 following the general election because of the community's support for President Obama's campaign. She visited around 150 gas stations and quick stops in total, finding the unique curation of each space compelling. A gas station in the Mississippi Delta offering an all-you-can-eat-buffet, which Medley visited in 2013. Kate Medley“The closest gas is 30 miles away,” Amanda Simonson, the general manager, told Medley when she walked in, according to Medley’s book. Medley photographed a former gas station in the Arkansas Delta, which had become a modest Baptist church.

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☆ The Meteoric Rise and Spectacular Fall of the Queen of Airbnb
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +18 min

Now, after she made her pitch at the VFW hall, attendees clamored around Widell, eager to have her manage their Airbnb rentals. The reign of the Airbnb Queen of Tulsa was over — and her subjects were left to pick up the pieces. Dominic Bugatto for BIThe "Queen of Airbnb" label, which started off as Widell's Airbnb account name, helped create an aura of omnipotence. According to those familiar with the business, Widell seemed to be shifting her focus away from Airbnb rentals to the house-staging business. Today, her "Tulsa Airbnb Group" on Facebook remains active, with some 1,000 members.

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☆ William Whitworth, Revered Writer and Editor, Is Dead at 87
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Sam Roberts | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

William Whitworth, who wrote revealing profiles in The New Yorker giving voice to his idiomatic subjects and polished the prose of some of the nation’s celebrated writers as its associate editor before transplanting that magazine’s painstaking standards to The Atlantic, where he was editor in chief for 20 years, died on Friday in Conway, Ark., near Little Rock. His daughter, Katherine Whitworth Stewart, announced the death. She said he was being treated after several falls and operations in a hospital. As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist. He covered breaking news for The Arkansas Gazette and later for The New York Herald Tribune, where his colleagues eventually included some of the most exhilarating voices in American journalism, among them Dick Schaap, Jimmy Breslin and Tom Wolfe.

Persons: William Whitworth, Katherine Whitworth Stewart, Whitworth forsook, Dick Schaap, Jimmy Breslin, Tom Wolfe Organizations: Yorker, The Arkansas Gazette, The New York Herald Tribune Locations: Conway, Little Rock

☆ Retailers turn to an unlikely source to boost profits. Walmart shows how powerful this lever could be
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Alex Harring | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

There are three main routes through which retailers like Walmart benefit from advertising, Tarlowe said. The focus in retail advertising once transitioned from in-store to retailer websites with the e-commerce boom, Gutman said. Walmart: The pack leader With the deal, Walmart appears ahead of the retail pack, Gutman said. Connected TV is also just one part of a broader tide-change that's bolstering optimism on the stock, analysts told CNBC Pro. Other retail ideas Beyond Walmart, analysts said retailers need size and scale to perform well within off-site advertising.

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☆ After Walmart's stock split, Jim Cramer says this chipmaker should be next
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Kevin Stankiewicz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Jim Cramer's daily rapid fire looks at stocks in the news outside the CNBC Investing Club portfolio. Walmart : The Arkansas-based retail giant's 3-for-1 stock split went into effect Monday, and Jim Cramer said he'd like to see other companies consider taking similar moves. "This is something that [CEO] Doug McMillon said that [founder] Sam Walton liked because people don't like partial stock. I think that companies like Broadcom should be listening to that, and they should be splitting," Cramer said. "They gave you a really long-term view, and it was very positive," Cramer said.

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☆ Grown in Oklahoma, Smoked in New York: Illicit Marijuana’s Legal Roots
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-24 | by ( Ashley Southall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the dead of night last April, state drug agents in Oklahoma intercepted an 18-wheeler rumbling east toward the Arkansas border smuggling 7,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in security camera boxes. The weed was from licensed farms in Oklahoma, according to the State Bureau of Narcotics. But the driver was heading to New York, where his cargo could fetch millions of dollars among legacy street dealers and new, rogue dispensaries that make up the illicit market, officials said. New York, like other states, has legalized marijuana but has been very slow to allow licensed retail outlets to open and licensed producers to expand. As a result, many states with a surplus of legal weed, like Oklahoma, have found a lucrative market for their products on the streets and in unlicensed dispensaries in New York.

Organizations: State Bureau of Narcotics Locations: Oklahoma, Arkansas, New York

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth condemned the depiction by Trump and Republican allies of Jan. 6 defendants as “political prisoners” and “hostages." Lamberth also denounced attempts to undermine the legitimacy of the justice system for punishing rioters who broke the law when they invaded the Capitol. Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesAt least two other rioters shouted “Trump won!” in court after receiving their punishment. Lamberth had originally sentenced Little in 2022 to 60 days behind bars, followed by three years of probation. “Little cannot bring himself to admit that he did the wrong thing, although he came close today,” Judge Lamberth wrote.

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☆ Anxiety, Mood Swings and Sleepless Nights: Life Near a Bitcoin Mine
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Gabriel J.X. Dance | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

On a sweltering July evening, the din from thousands of computers mining for Bitcoins pierced the night. Nearby, Matt Brown, a member of the Arkansas legislature, monitored the noise alongside a local magistrate. As the two men investigated complaints about the operation, Mr. Brown said, a security guard for the mine loaded rounds into an AR-15-style assault rifle that had been stored in a car. “He wanted to make sure that we knew he had his gun — that we knew it was loaded,” Mr. Brown, a Republican, said in an interview. The Bitcoin outfit here, 45 minutes north of Little Rock, is one of three sites in Arkansas owned by a network of companies embroiled in tense disputes with residents, who say the noise generated by computers performing trillions of calculations per second ruins lives, lowers property values and drives away wildlife.

Persons: Matt Brown, Brown, Mr Organizations: Republican Locations: Arkansas, Little

(AP) — Residents of an east Arkansas town have been without running water for the past two weeks after the state was hit by below-freezing temperatures, and the outage has forced them to line up for bottled water, fill up jugs or take showers at a truck brought in by the state. The town faced a similar crisis last summer, when the same part of the city was without water in June. The outages are affecting one of two water systems for Helena-West Helena, which was two separate cities until 2006. Each day, distribution sites for the water have seen a steady line of people filling up on water to use for their homes. He said citizens in general have been understanding of the emergency water distribution process.

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Circuit Court of appeals denied the request for the case to go before the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a panel ruled 2-1 last year that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesThe 8th Circuit ruling applies only to federal courts covered by the district, which includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. “The decision by the Eighth Circuit to not revisit the case is a serious blow to the rights of Arkansas voters," Holly Dickson, executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas, said in a statement. The Arkansas lawsuit challenges the state House redistricting plan, which was approved in 2021 by the all-Republican state Board of Apportionment.

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☆ ‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. Crusade
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Nicholas Confessore | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +44 min

‘America Is Under Attack’: Inside the Anti-D.E.I. “In support of ridding schools of C.R.T., the Right argues that we want nonpolitical education,” Mr. Klingenstein wrote in August 2021. In a 2023 exchange, Dr. Yenor and two associates discussed how to defend Amy Wax, a conservative law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Yenor and his allies bristled at the conventions of academic life as overly solicitous toward female and nonwhite students. Samuel Ginn, Claremont donor“The president then told him, ‘Things will change,’” a Claremont fund-raiser wrote to Dr. Yenor and other officials there.

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☆ Opinion | When States Try to Take Away Americans’ Freedom of Thought
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Professors and students are supposed to debate the issues of the moment, gaining understanding of the other side’s views, refining and strengthening their positions, and learning how to solve problems. Argument thrives in a culture of openness, and maintaining that culture ought to be paramount for universities, as well as any institution that wants to shape public policy or debate. But the threat that Americans should be most concerned about is any attempt by government to limit the freedom of individuals to express their views or to dictate what they say. He refused to do so, calling the requirement “McCarthyist” and an affront to his free-speech rights. The campus has lost many other speakers for the same reason, and students say they are missing out on the chance to hear a variety of voices.

Persons: Nathan Thrall, Thrall Organizations: University of Arkansas, Israel Locations: Arkansas, Israel, Gaza

☆ Walmart settles a lawsuit that claims it passed a female worker for promotion because she had young children at home
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Walmart is set to pay a former worker $60,000 to settle claims it didn't promote her because she had young children. The company didn't hire her for a manager role because she had children at home, the EEOC said. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementWalmart is set to pay a former female worker $60,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming it turned down her request for promotion because she had young children at home. The EEOC filed the lawsuit after it failed to reach a conciliation agreement with the Arkansas-based retailer.

Persons: —, wasn't Organizations: Walmart, Service, Employment, Commission, Business Locations: Ottumwa , Iowa, Arkansas

(AP) — Arkansas election officials on Monday said online news personality Cenk Uygur, who was born in Turkey, can't appear on the state's Democratic presidential primary ballot next year. The determination comes weeks after Uygur proclaimed that he had become the first naturalized citizen on a presidential ballot after filing paperwork with the state and the Arkansas Democratic Party. “My office has received your candidate filing paperwork,” Arkansas Secretary of State John Thurston said in a letter to Uygur. Reed Brewer, a spokesman for the Arkansas Democratic Party, said based on past court rulings, the party didn't have authority to determine whether Uygur was eligible for the ballot. “Because of the vagaries of state law, rejecting a filing is simply not an option for us,” Brewer said.

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☆ As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Christopher Flavelle | Mira Rojanasakul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +19 min

They serve on the board of Groundwater Management District 3, which since 1996 has overseen the pumping of 16.2 trillion gallons of groundwater — enough to fill Lake Mead, the country’s largest reservoir, twice over. From Maryland to Hawaii groundwater levels are falling, often the result of overpumping and underregulation, made worse by climate change. Groundwater Levels at Goldstrike Mine Observation wells at Goldstrike show a pattern of immense groundwater withdrawals. “And money talks.”Kansas City Groundwater Management District 3 KANSAS Wichita KANSAS Groundwater Management District 3 Kansas City Groundwater Management District 3 KANSAS WichitaGrowing corn in the Kansas drylandsIn Kansas, the power of the men who run Groundwater Management District 3 is enormous. Groups like Groundwater Management District 3 have until 2026 to come up with plans to sustain groundwater.

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☆ House Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned with disgraced reality TV Star Josh Duggar, one of several accused sex offenders connected to his 'mentor' Tony Perkins
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Jacqueline Sweet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Speaker Mike Johnson campaigned with now-disgraced reality TV star Josh Duggar years ago in Louisiana. Johnson called Duggar, now in prison for child pornography, a "friend" when the two campaigned for now-U.S. According to the Washington Post, "Perkins goes way back with the Duggar family." According to the Washington Post, Perkins was close to Duggar's father Jim Bob Duggar , who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2003. Calls and emails to Perkins and Duggar family lawyers were not immediately returned.

Persons: Mike Johnson, Josh Duggar, Johnson, Tony Perkins, Bill Cassidy, —, Duggar, Perkins, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal, Sen, Santorum, Raj Shah, Shah, Josh, Duggar's, Jim Bob Duggar, InTouch, Jim Bob, Paul, Pressler's, Pressler, Wesley Goodman, Perkins acolyte, Goodman, Donald Trump, Paul Pressler Organizations: Family Research, Service, Louisiana Republican, Business, Washington Post, GOP, Pennsylvania Republican, Washington , D.C, FRC, InTouch, Paul Pressler School of Law, Louisiana College, Pressler, Southern Baptist Convention, Council for National Policy, The Washington Spectator Locations: Louisiana, U.S, Washington ,, Shreveport, Arkansas, Ohio

☆ Exclusive: Exxon aims to begin lithium production by 2026 in Arkansas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Ernest Scheyder | Thomson Reuters | Ernest Scheyder Is An Award-Winning Senior Correspondent Covering The Green Energy Transition | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

For Exxon and other oil companies, lithium production offers the prospect of selling a new product with relatively little added cost. OTHER ACREAGESeparate from its Tetra partnership, Exxon also controls more than 100,000 acres in Arkansas from which it plans to begin lithium production by 2027, according to the source. It was not clear whether Exxon plans to expand lithium operations outside Arkansas. Like all oil producers, Exxon extracts water containing traces of lithium as part of fossil fuel production. The Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, which overseas lithium operations in the state, has said it plans to hold hearings on the matter.

Persons: Darren Woods, Mike Blake, Albemarle, Ernest Scheyder, Caroline Humer, David Gregorio Our Organizations: ExxonMobil, Milken, Global Conference, REUTERS, Exxon Mobil, Exxon, Tetra Technologies, EV, Reuters, Tetra, Chevron, Battery Metals, EnergySource Minerals, Energy, Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, Benchmark Minerals, Thomson Locations: Beverly Hills , California, U.S, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Albemarle, Louisiana, Los Angeles

☆ Tyson recalls almost 30,000 pounds of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets after consumers found metal pieces in them
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tyson recalled almost 30,000 pounds of its Fun Nuggets on Saturday, saying they could contain metal. AdvertisementAdvertisementTyson Foods has recalled almost 30,000 pounds of its frozen dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets amid fears that they could contain metal pieces, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Saturday. The FSIS said that Tyson had recalled around 29,819 pounds of the dinosaur-shaped nuggets, which is around 16,500 packets. In September, the US Department of Labor announced they were investigating Tyson Foods and Perdue Farms, another major poultry producer, over the reports. The Tyson family has become one of the country's richest families, but Tyson Foods announced earlier this year that it was shutting four of its chicken plants as it sought to cut costs amid falling demand.

Persons: Tyson, —, Tyson Foods, Tyson Fresh Organizations: Nuggets, Service, US Department of Agriculture's, Inspection, US Department of Labor, Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms Locations: Arkansas, Alabama , California , Illinois , Kentucky, Michigan , Ohio , Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas

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