Warwick Sabin

We’re hearing reports about a hazardous chemical spill in Benton and the evacuation of the area where it occurred.

We just attended Karl Rove’s speech at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, which was organized by the Clinton School of Public Service.

CNN reports: The new commander of U.S. troops in Iraq has warned that military force alone will not be enough to quell the country’s violent insurgency.

Did you read about how YouTube has been banned in Turkey? Could the same thing happen in Fayetteville?

The Washington Post today takes a closer look at the thousands of mobile homes sitting unused in Hope and FEMA’s refusal to dispatch them to Desha County, where victims of last month’s tornadoes could use them.

In an article for workcompcentral.com, Michael Whiteley writes that local attorney Rick Spencer “alleges that a top aide to ex-governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee pressured judges to rule against injured workers and played a role in the firings of three judges who say they were removed for favoring claimants over business.”

John Brummett raises the possibility that partisan politics played a role in the Bush administration’s decision to devote aid and attention to areas struck by tornadoes in Alabama, while ignoring parts of Arkansas that suffered the same fate.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the world’s richest man, today told a U.S. Senate committee that he supports his father’s crusade against repealing the estate tax.

At our Little Rocking blog, Jim Harris has the story on golfer Phil Mickelson’s upcoming visit to the Alotian Club for the second annual Jackson T. Stephens Charitable Golf Classic scheduled for April 24.