TOP STORY >> Machines to undergo testing for primaries

Leader staff reportPublic Logic and Accuracy tests of Pulaski County’s touch-screen iVotronic voting machines and optical scanners were to be conducted Wednesday, according to Susan Inman, director of the Pulaski County Election Commission, and one such machine will be in use at each of the nine early voting sites by Thursday or Friday.She had hoped to use most or all […]

OBITUARIES >> 5-10-06

MICHAEL YOUNGBLOOD, 42Michael Gene Youngblood, 42, of North Little Rock, passed away on May 8. He was born on Aug. 17, 1963, in North Little Rock to Jerry Allen Youngblood and Shirley Wilson Youngblood. He was preceded in death by his father and a brother Jerry Allen Youngblood Jr.He graduated from Jackson-ville High School and was retired from Jerry’s Appliance […]

WED 5-10-6 EDITORIAL >> AG: Suskie by a nose

Voters can hardly go wrong whomever they nominate for attorney general in the Democratic primary. State Rep. Dustin McDaniel of Jonesboro, City Attorney Paul Suskie of North Little Rock and Prosecuting Attorney Robert Herzfeld of Benton are all learned in the law, which is what the job requires, each has a record of accomplishment in his young career, all are […]

SPORTS >> Bears won’t repeat

By JASON KINGLeader sports writerThe Sylvan Hills Bears came up short in their bid to repeat as Class AAAAA state champions. In one inning, Sylvan Hills watched a great season slip away after winning the AAAAA East title and advancing into the quarterfinal round of the state playoffs. Fayetteville (West No. 2) scored 10 of its total 11 runs in […]

SPORTS >> Lady Devils moving on

By RAY BENTONLeader sports editorThe Jacksonville Lady Red Devils advanced to the second round of the class AAAAA state tournament Monday by beating Fort Smith Northside 3-0 on the strength of a no-hitter by junior pitcher Jessica Bock.Northside had just one base runner, that off an error in the sixth inning, as Bock struck out nine Lady Grizzlies.The Jacksonville bats […]

NEIGHBORS >> Relay for life

By SARA GREENELeader staff writerCabot’s annual event raises money for cancer society.Cabot Relay for Life was a huge success this year, collecting $46,500 for cancer research, surpassing the goal of $42,000. The money raised will help provide programs for patients and families, transportation grants, a camp for children with cancer, college scholarships for childhood cancer survivors and wigs.“We had about […]

FROM THE PUBLISHER >> Memorial grows for fallen state trooper

The Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration team will return to Little Rock Air Force Base in the fall for another air show.The Blue Angels have flown here several times, but on their next visit they will make a short detour to a small Jacksonville park that honors the memory of State Trooper Jimmie White, who died after he escorted the […]

TOP STORY >> Jacksonville makes offer for new library location

By JOHN HOFHEIMER AND SARA GREENELeader staff writersJacksonville hopes to put its new library on Main Street, between Walgreens and War-ren Street, across the street from the Jacksonville Shopping Center and First Arkansas Bank and Trust, and has begun negotiations with landowners, according to Bobby Roberts, director of the Central Arkansas Library System.In July 2004, Jacksonville residents approved a one-mill […]

TOP STORY >> GOP candidates square off

By JOAN MCCOYLeader staff writerCabot has five candidates for mayor to replace Stubby Stumbaugh, who is running for Congress, but only two are running in the May 23 primary. They are Republicans Eddie Joe Williams, a former Cabot alderman, and Bill “Pete” Pedersen, a former justice of the peace, who represented Cabot on the Lonoke County Quorum Court.The two Republicans […]

TOP STORY >> Jail costs could hit taxpayers for $34M

By JOHN HOFHEIMERLeader staff writerPulaski County Sheriff Randy John-son wants to reopen the county’s 250-bed work-release program, then phase in over a number of years new construction for an additional 808 jail beds at a cost of $34.2 million in construction and $15 million in annual operating costs, according to information he supplied to the county’s Public Safety Task Force.At […]