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Little Rock’s Most Beautiful Homes 2025
Little Rock Soiree - Arkansas
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July 1, 2025
Sleek designs, luxe details, secluded streets — this is how you do Little Rock in style. Credit: Jason Masters 5229 Edgewood Road Neighborhood: Prospect Terrace | Year built: 1930 Bedrooms: 4 | Bathrooms: 5 | Square feet: 5,340 Credit: Jason...
Governor Stein honors 10 with Order of the Long Leaf Pine
North Wake News - North Carolina
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June 30, 2025
Governor Josh Stein has recognized ten individuals for their significant contributions to North Carolina by inducting them into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine. This prestigious award is given to those who have demonstrated a lifetime of service...
7 Ways to Shop With Purpose in Little Rock
Little Rock Soiree - Arkansas
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July 1, 2025
Looking to integrate meaningful ways of giving back into your daily routine? Look for businesses that offer the chance to both shop local and make a difference. Whether you’re shopping for clothing, furniture or everyday essentials, the metro has...
Former Arkansas governor reacts to SCOTUS injunction ruling
KTHV - Arkansas
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July 1, 2025
Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson said the Supreme Court’s ruling reshapes presidential power and could directly impact immigration cases in Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Just days after a major U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding...
Arkansas History for July 1: Heiskell becomes Gazette editor
Magnolia Reporter - Arkansas
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Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for July 1, and notable births and deaths of native Arkansans born on this date. Information is drawn from state archives, historical societies, contemporary newspapers and other...
Arkansas woman seeking owner of Heath High School class ring
WPSD-TV - Kentucky
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — More than 300 miles away from the high school it represents, at the bottom of a box destined for the dump, sat a small class ring. Now, an Arkansas woman hopes to reunite it with its owner. Lana Pierce is a firefighter and a...
Arkansas Advocate: Internet group files another federal suit over state’s social media laws
Arkadelphian - Arkansas
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June 30, 2025
By ANTOINETTE GRAJEDA | Arkansas Advocate A nonprofit trade association for internet companies is again suing Arkansas over legislation regulating social media platforms, arguing two new state laws are unconstitutional. Approved by lawmakers in...
Little Rock couple donate 105 works of art to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 30, 2025
Robyn and John Horn of Little Rock have donated 105 works of art from their private collection to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the art center's executive director announced Monday. Victoria Ramirez, the museum's executive director, announced...
Little Rock couple donate 155 works of art to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 30, 2025
Robyn and John Horn of Little Rock have donated 155 works of art from their private collection to the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, the art center's executive director announced Monday. Victoria Ramirez, the museum's executive director, announced...
Arkansas’ first dental school students arrive on campus
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 30, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Arkansas' first cohort of dental students trickled into the 12-story Riverfront Plaza building off Allied Drive in Little Rock on Monday morning, greeted by a...
ARKANSAS STATE FUSION CENTER EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING SCHEDULED FOR JULY
Swark Today - Arkansas
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By Zane Freeman June 30, 2025 A meeting of the Arkansas State Fusion Center Executive Board has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 9, 2025, at 2 p.m. The regularly-scheduled business meeting will take place in the Old Commission Room at the...
Louisiana Sues CVS Over Political Text Messages, PBM Practices
Classic Rock 105.1 - Louisiana
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July 1, 2025
Highlights Attorney General Liz Murrill filed three separate lawsuits against CVS on June 24, 2025, alleging deceptive trade practices and anticompetitive behavior CVS sent mass text messages to Louisiana customers on June 11 opposing House Bill...
Dog Haus to open restaurants in NWA, Fort Smith, Little Rock
Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
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June 30, 2025
Pasadena, Calif-based Dog Haus plans to expand its national footprint with eight locations in Arkansas, including at least four in Northwest Arkansas and one in Fort Smith. The restaurant company is working with Cherokee Rhoda, founder and CEO of...
UA Little Rock Employees Earn Honors in 2025 Arkansas Press Women Communications Contest
UA Little Rock - Arkansas
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June 30, 2025
Angelita Faller | June 30, 2025 Communications and Marketing employees earned multiple awards from the Arkansas Press Women 2025 Professional Communications Contest, including several for work promoting the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse event at...
Arkansas laws passed this year will take effect starting Tuesday
El Dorado News-Times - Arkansas
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June 30, 2025
State laws merging the Arkansas School for the Blind and the Arkansas School for the Deaf into the Arkansas School for the Deaf and Blind, and overhauling the state's pay plan for more than 22,000 executive branch employees, go into effect...
ARKANSAS SIGHTSEEING: Hot Springs’ bathhouses offer look back at earlier therapeutic pastimes
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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June 30, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. HOT SPRINGS — As summer travel hits full speed, Hot Springs National Park’s Fordyce Bathhouse Museum & Visitor Center is once again open every day. In March,...
Tech industry group sues Arkansas over 2 new laws that would limit content on social media platforms
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 1, 2025
A tech industry trade group sued Arkansas on Friday over two new laws that would place limits on content on social media platforms and would allow parents of children who killed themselves to sue over content on the platforms. The lawsuit by...
Arkansas receives approval to continue broadband program
Newton County Times - Arkansas
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The Arkansas State Broadband Office (ARConnect) announced today that the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has formally approved Arkansas’ continuation of its Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program....
How Fayetteville, Arkansas, Celebrated Pride
Vogue - New York
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June 30, 2025
Monroe was crowned Miss Gay United States in 2012, making her the first national titleholder in drag from Fayetteville. Miss Gay America 2025, Ivy Dripp, sat next to her in the dressing room. “This is the coolest Pride experience I’ve had,” Dripp...
CAFOs banned from Arkansas’ Buffalo National River but not other rivers
Stuttgart Daily Leader - Arkansas
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June 30, 2025
The Buffalo National River is America’s first national river. It’s 135 miles long and is one of the few remaining undammed rivers in the lower 48 states. (Phil Fitzgerald/Adobe Stock)Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs, are banned...