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In the news 27 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
Fat Joe, 42, the platinum-selling rapper of the hit “What’s Luv?” whose real name is Joseph Cartagena, reported to federal prison in Florida to serve a 4-month sentence for failing to pay taxes on mor...
Yosemite-fire ash puts Bay Area water at risk 27 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
TUOLUMNE CITY, Calif. — A raging wildfire in Yosemite National Park rained ash on the reservoir that is the chief source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water, and utility officials Monday s...
Names and faces 27 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
A federal judge signed off Monday on a deal to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen. A civil lawsuit accusing the former Food Network star and her brother of race discrim...
Race called no factor in ballplayer’s killing 27 Aug 2013 | 03:46 pm
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Australian baseball player who was purportedly shot and killed at random while he was jogging wasn’t targeted because of his race or nationality, the prosecutor in charge of the cas...
Getting it straight 27 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate.
The nation in brief 27 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
QUOTE OF THE DAY “He made me feel safe and secure. Now the other side of the bed is empty and cold. I feel dead but yet alive.” Shoua Her
The world in brief 27 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm
QUOTE OF THE DAY “The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons, is a moral obscenity.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry
School seeks to put deputy on campus 27 Aug 2013 | 03:23 pm
HOT SPRINGS — Fountain Lake School District is contracting with the Garland County sheriff’s office to add an on-campus school resource officer.
Other days 27 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
100 YEARS AGO Aug. 27, 1913 The recently enacted rule of the State Board of Health compelling all school children, teachers and employees of the schools to be vaccinated, is valid and would be sustain...
Steady yourself 27 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
AS MUCH as you might have expected it, the size of the increase in health insurance premiums for schoolteachers and other employees of Arkansas’ public schools still must have come as a shock: a 50-pe...