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Soirée Presents Little Rock’s Top Docs 2025
Little Rock Soiree - Arkansas
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August 1, 2025
In a time when your health matters more than ever, so does choosing the right doctor. The Little Rock metro is full of hospitals and clinics with amazing health care providers, so to find the best of the best, we went directly to the source: their...
Preserve Arkansas to Offer Education Sessions at El Dorado Sept. 10-12
Swark Today - Arkansas
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By Press Release Preserve Arkansas is partnering with Main Street Arkansas, the host of this year’s annual tri-state Destination Downtown conference, to offer a track of five preservation-focused sessions. Destination Downtown will take place...
WinChoice Expands Mountain Pine, Arkansas, Manufacturing Operations
Area Development
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August 1, 2025
Related Research Window manufacturer WinChoice plans to expand its manufacturing operations in Mountain Pine, Arkansas. The $3 million project is expected to create more than 50 jobs in Garland County. “This expansion is more than just an...
College of Public Health Alum Advocates for Access to Care in Arkansas
UAMS
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August 1, 2025
View Larger Image Aaron Pilkington, MHA, an alum of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, advocates for the improved health of women and children in Arkansas. Aug. 1, 2025 | Arkansas Rep....
Record-setting 'megaflash' lightning part of 2017 storm in Arkansas
KHBS - Arkansas
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August 1, 2025
FREE LUNCH THIS MORNING, A NEW RECORD SET FOR THE LONGEST LIGHTNING STRIKE. IT WAS CERTIFIED BY AN INTERNATIONAL WEATHER ORGANIZATION ON THURSDAY. AND METEOROLOGIST JOSEPH NEUBAUER JOINS US NOW. JOSEPH, THIS STRIKE, IT HAPPENED NEARLY EIGHT YEARS...
Arkansas National Guard to promote former soldier to brigadier general
KATV 7 - Arkansas
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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Col. Jeffrey D. Wood is set to be promoted to brigadier general in the Arkansas National Guard during a ceremony on August 2, 2025. Wood, who began his military career as an enlisted soldier in 2000, will also take on the role...
Scientists discovered a previously unknown lightning strike that was a record 515 miles long
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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Scientists have revealed that a lightning bolt that occurred over a swath of the southern U.S. in 2017 was the single longest lightning strike ever recorded. At 515 miles long, the flash was the equivalent distance from Boston to the Outer Banks...
Arkansas-Asia business group names new executive director, board members
Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
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July 31, 2025
The Arkansas Association of Asian Businesses has appointed Jayesh Ramnani of Bentonville as the association’s executive director, according to a Thursday (July 31) news release. The organization also named two new board members, Deepali Lal of...
Arkansas governor launches Middle East human rights abuse tour
Arkansas Times
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July 31, 2025
The governor of Arkansas will visit her daddy on state taxpayers’ dime next week, traveling to Israel to promote new weapons investments as the death toll in Gaza mounts. She’ll also visit the United Arab Emirates as part of the seven-day trip,...
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to take first trip to Israel since her father became ambassador
Tri City Record - New Mexico
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July 31, 2025
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is traveling next week on a trade mission to Israel, her first visit since her father Mike Huckabee was named U.S. ambassador there. Sanders, widely considered a potential Republican...
Poultry Science Association Announces Newly Elected Board Members at 114th Annual Meeting
The Poultry Site
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The Poultry Science Association (PSA) is pleased to announce the newly elected members of its Board of Directors, introduced during the 114th PSA Annual Meeting held July 14–17, 2025, in Raleigh, North Carolina. The new board members bring a...
Educators at Little Rock symposium discuss responding to students’ traumatic experiences
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 30, 2025
Arkansas ranks near the top in the United States in the percentage of its children who have had multiple experiences that can impact their health negatively, illustrating the need for resources focused on mental health issues in schools, a...
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to take first trip to Israel since her father became...
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Georgia
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Sanders plans to meet with senior Israel government officials and is hosting roundtables with Israeli companies, focused on agricultural technology and defense. She also plans to connect with several companies that already have investments in...
ENTERTAINMENT: Chamber music concert in Little Rock, fiddle-banjo championships in Mountain View
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 30, 2025
MUSIC Chamber music festival The Faulkner Chamber Music Festival continues with two free performances in the Center for Humanities and Arts Theater at the University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock:...
UAM graduate earns honors for literary research
The Pine Bluff Commercial - Arkansas
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August 1, 2025
When Destiny Forrest reads a novel, she isn't just following a plot -- she's searching for unanswered questions. She wants to know why an author shaped a character's psychology a certain way, what lies beneath emotional exchanges and how fiction...
New UA Little Rock Course Prepares Students to Secure Critical Infrastructure
UA Little Rock - Arkansas
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July 30, 2025
Angelita Faller | July 30, 2025 UA Little Rock's cybersecurity faculty include Philip Huff bottom left, Bill Cox, top left, Sandra Leiterman, center left, Rebecca Passmore, center right, and Phuong Tran, right. Photo by Benjamin Krain. UA Little...
UAM English Student’s Nationally Recognized Research
Saline River News - Arkansas
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July 31, 2025
MONTICELLO, Ark. — When Destiny Forrest reads a novel, she isn’t just following a plot — she’s searching for unanswered questions. She wants to know why an author shaped a character’s psychology a certain way, what lies beneath emotional exchanges...
Mississippi County Hospital System, NYITCOM at Arkansas State commit to collaborative relationship and residency program application
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 31, 2025
BLYTHEVILLE -- The Mississippi County Hospital System and medical school at Arkansas State University announced a partnership Thursday to launch a family medicine residency program and other collaborative health care projects. Other aspects of the...
UAMS signs 10-year lease in West Little Rock to house orthopedics and sports medicine department
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 30, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has signed a 10-year lease for approximately 35,000 square feet at Premier Medical Plaza, at 10915 Rodney Parham...
Nixon Foundation Honors Arkansas’ Sanders
The Daily Signal - Washington D.C.
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July 31, 2025
The leadership of the state of Arkansas is a model for the rest of the country. That’s what the Richard Nixon Foundation concluded this year in honoring Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders with its Champion of the American Dream Award. The award...