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Over 70 classmates receive diplomas in Friday's graduation ceremony
Piggott High School Class of 2013 Commencement (05/23/13)
Over 70 classmates receive diplomas in Friday's graduation ceremony
Piggott Heritage Park Car Show Held (05/23/13)
Local car show draws good crowd
Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive a Success (05/23/13)
Rector residents shine during annual event
Longtime Piggott Businessman Jack Ballard Dies at 82 (05/23/13)
Family operated Ballard Nursery for nearly 100 years
Caldwell Retires as Art Teacher at RHS (05/23/13)
As the Art teacher at Rector High School, Carolyn Caldwell has formed a bond with several students through the years. Caldwell, whose love for art in all its forms comes through in nearly everything she does, announced recently her plans to retire this June, when the current school year comes to a close...
Fundraiser Continues for Rector Community Center (05/23/13)
Effort continues to replace lighting at local center
Storm Front Brings Wind, Heavy Rains (05/22/13)
Flooding, some wind damage reported in area
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
National Headlines
  • Actress Bynes arrested in NYC on marijuana charge
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Police say actress Amanda Bynes has been arrested in midtown Manhattan after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window....
  • No fatalities in I-5 bridge collapse in NW Wash
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping several vehicles into the water as authorities investigated the cause of the collapse that cut off the state's main north-south thruway and sent three people to the hospital....
  • Jurors deadlock on Jodi Arias penalty; retrial set
    PHOENIX (AP) -- Jurors who spent five months determining Jodi Arias' fate couldn't decide whether she should get life in prison or die for murdering her boyfriend, sending prosecutors back to the drawing board to rehash the shocking case of sex, lies and violence to another 12 people....
  • 10 Things to Know for Friday
    Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:...
  • Extremists claim responsibility for Niger attacks
    NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. A surviving attacker took a group of soldiers hostage, and authorities were attempting to negotiate their release....
  • Boy Scouts approve plan to accept openly gay boys
    GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -- The Boy Scouts of America threw open its ranks Thursday to gay Scouts but not gay Scout leaders - a fiercely contested compromise that some warned could fracture the organization and lead to mass defections of members and donors....
  • Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida....
  • IRS replaces official in tea party controversy
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moving quickly to stem a raging controversy, the new acting head of the Internal Revenue Service started cleaning house Thursday by replacing the supervisor who oversaw agents involved in targeting tea party groups....
  • Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack
    LONDON (AP) -- A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday....
  • Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive
    NEW YORK (AP) -- For decades, people have been getting rid of cockroaches by setting out bait mixed with poison. But in the late 1980s, in an apartment test kitchen in Florida, something went very wrong....
Strange Headlines
  • AP NewsAlert
    PHOENIX (AP) -- Judge declares mistrial in penalty phase of Jodi Arias trial; retrial scheduled for July....
  • Goat on the lam snarls NJ's Pulaski Skyway traffic
    JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase....
  • Thailand urged to explore edible insect market
    BANGKOK (AP) -- Researchers say Thailand is showing the world how to respond to the global food crisis: by raising bugs for eating....
  • Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago
    CHICAGO (AP) -- A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite....
  • 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....
  • Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride
    EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle....
  • Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled
    GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) -- An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived....
  • Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail
    ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant....
  • Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic
    SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself....
  • Wash. state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru
    KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later - in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works....
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