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Sunday, May 19, 2013
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In light of last year's doomsday scenarios (Mayan calendar, etc.) are you better prepared for a catastrophe or natural disaster?
 No, not at all
 No, but being prepared is on my mind
 Yes, but not much
 Yes, I'm ready to bug-out at a moment's notice
 Was prepared before all the hullabaloo, and still so

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Commencement exercises held Sunday for RHS
Rector High School Holds Graduation for Class of 2013 (05/16/13)
Commencement exercises held Sunday for RHS
Piggott High School Set for Graduation (05/16/13)
Co-Valedictorians named to class of 2013
Piggott Heritage Park Car Show and Cruise This Weekend (05/16/13)
Park open all day Saturday, cruise at 6 p.m. to the square
Hospital Tax Issue Extension Approved by Voters (05/16/13)
Extension of current sales tax to benefit emergency operations at PCH gets 86 percent support
Hemingway-Pfeiffer Opens New Exhibit (05/16/13)
View from the Hill set to run through summer
Rector High Honors Assembly Held (05/16/13)
Students recognized for achievement
Hospital Tax Issue Passes by Wide Margin (05/14/13)
Voters offer strong support at polls
Clay County Relay For Life Fundraiser Held (05/09/13)
Event held at Piggott Community Center
Rector High School Class of 2013 set to Graduate (05/09/13)
Grads set to say farewell
Chalk Bluff Battle Re-Enactment Held (05/09/13)
150th anniversary marked despite wet conditions
Rector Water Department Recognized for Excellence (05/09/13)
Accept award at ceremony in Hot Springs
New Exhibit to Open at HPMEC (05/09/13)
Effort further examines Pfeiffer family
A Great Lady With a Big Heart Honored (05/09/13)
Shultz recipient of Arts Council Honors award
Chalk Bluff Re-Enactment This Weekend (05/02/13)
Event marks 150th anniversary of battle
Rector Chamber Banquet is Held (05/02/13)
State lawmakers provide updates on recent session
Relay For Life Set for Saturday (05/02/13)
Event slated at Piggott Community Center
Layer Recognized at Scholars Program (05/02/13)
Top grad for College of Nursing and Health Professionals at ASU
Piggott Car Show Schedule Set (05/02/13)
Annual event coming to Heritage Park
Relay For Life Survivor's Dinner Held (04/25/13)
Annual cancer fundraiser to feature new format, schedule
Camporee Draws Hundreds of Cub Scouts (04/25/13)
Packs from across region converge on Heritage Park
Puppets Entertain at Rector (04/25/13)
Performance sponsored by Clay County Arts Council
Piggott School Board Meets (04/25/13)
Rehires personnel and decides to seek bids on old gym
Aftershock 2013 is All the Rave! (04/25/13)
After prom event at Rector a big success
Piggott High FBLA Members off to Nationals (04/25/13)
Qualify at state competition
Cub Scouts visit Piggott (04/22/13)
Troops from across region converge on Heritage Park
National Headlines
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    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- It's all about the odds....
  • Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police
    MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- A Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday....
  • Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
    MALMO, Sweden (AP) -- Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine....
  • No Triple Crown: Oxbow upsets Orb at Preakness
    BALTIMORE (AP) -- Right from the start, a horse trained by one not so over-the-hill Hall of Famer and ridden by another took control of the Preakness. The result: a huge upset and the end of any hopes for a Triple Crown attempt at the Belmont Stakes....
  • Up to 60 injured after car drives into Va. parade
    DAMASCUS, Va. (AP) -- An elderly driver plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Saturday parade in a small Virginia mountain town and investigators were looking into whether he suffered a medical emergency before the accident....
  • Victims: Marines failed to safeguard water supply
    CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch's brew of cancer-causing chemicals....
  • Official: Broken rail eyed in Conn. train crash
    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- The commuter train derailment and collision that left dozens injured outside New York City was not the result of foul play, officials said Saturday, but a fractured section of rail is being studied to determine if it is connected to the accident....
  • Assad: Syria transition talks are internal matter
    BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a U.S-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war....
  • Obama agenda marches on despite controversies
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office....
  • IRS probe ignored most influential groups
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups....
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