Having already rented a space for a property business, McAnally and her boyfriend Brandon converted her office into Retro Rose, a vinyl record store in Benton.
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Posted inEat Arkansas
Kream Kastle is a greasy spoon and a living fossil
One might be tempted to call this place a throwback to an earlier era, an atavism, a living fossil. But we just call it that little drive-in on Highway 70 — you know, that tastee-freeze between Ten Mile Creek and the Lonsdale turnoff, the place where all the trucks are parked.
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Conway drops its curfew. Little Rock?
Curfew ends in Conway. Still awaiting word in Little Rock.
Posted inCover Stories
Jesse Burks: Foot surgeon by day, horror film auteur by night
Jesse Burks puts his knowledge of the human body to use as a talented foot surgeon — and in his budding career as a filmmaker.
Posted inArkansas Blog
Open line and Salt Bowl aftermath
Here’s an open line plus a statement from Little Rock police and the Arkansas Parks and Tourism Department about the early ending of last night’s Benton-Bryant Salt Bowl football game at War Memorial Stadium after fear of a shooting sent the crowd of 38,000 heading for the exits during the third quarter.
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Mmmm, no more pertaters. ‘Sling Blade’ dairy bar closing
Dairy bar were “Sling Blade” was filmed is closing days. Pertaters available until about 7 p.m.
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The digital PD: Local cops get a mobile app
The Jacksonville, North Little Rock and Benton police departments soon will release mobile apps for phones and tablets.
Posted inRock Candy
CBS to hold open casting call for ‘Big Brother’ in Benton
Well it looks like Arkansas’s reality TV moment isn’t quite over, and now’s your chance to get involved. The CBS show “Big Brother” will hold an open casting call for its sixteenth (!) season this Sunday in Benton from 1-6 p.m. The show, as CBS explains it, “follows a group of people living together in a house outfitted with 65 cameras and 98 microphones recording their every move, 24 hours a day.”
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Man smashes Walmart case with pickaxe, flees with jewelry
Benton police are looking for a man who went into the Walmart store there just after 5 a.m. this morning, brandished a pickaxe and then smashed jewelry cases before making off with an unspecified amount of loot.
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ATF investigating automatic rifles found following Benton road rage arrest
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THV reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has entered the investigation of what police say was a road rage incident in which a handgun and an unspecified number of automatic rifles were later found in the suspect’s truck following his arrest..