EDITORIAL>>Internet disputes

The Morning News, Springdale—Every-thing’s up to date in Arkansas this week, with a pair of high-tech news items grabbing our attention. We’ll admit to being less than savvy on technical matters. It’s the arcane lure of writing that keeps us here, not the daily interfacing with infernal machines. We’re writers — not information technicians. But we’re writers with a highly […]

SPORTS >> Max Hatfield takes over Jacksonville ninth grade

By RAY BENTONLeader sports editorJacksonville High School has a new front man for its ninth-grade football program. Former assistant ninth-grade football coach and assistant high school girls basketball coach Max Hatfield was named the new head coach Thursday after former coach Eric Redmond took a job at Maumelle Middle School, an Oak Grove feeder school. Hatfield has been in coaching […]

SPORTS >> Mimms is JHS’s new girls head Red Devil

By RAY BENTONLeader sports writerFor the second consecutive year, Jacksonville High School has hired a head basketball coach away from North Pulaski. JHS principal Kenneth Clark announced Katrina Mimms as the new head girls basketball coach at Jacksonville. “I liked her work ethic,” Clark said. “She lives here and she knows the kids and people in the district. It’s a […]

SPORTS >> Southern Tag wins world

By JASON KINGLeader sportswriterFor two years running, the Southern Tag 13-under fast pitch softball team has brought a USSSA world title home to Jacksonville. After last year’s 12-U West World Series Championship, the now 13-U team traveled to Cincinatti, Ohio, earlier this month to go up against 22 of the country’s best fast-pitch teams. Southern Tag outlasted teams from 14 […]

OBITUARIES >> 07-29-06

CARLOTTA MCLEODCarlotta Jane Rogers McLeod, 54, of Jacksonville passed away July 25. She was the daughter of Stella Rogers and the late Thomas Rogers. Survivors include one daughter, Tina Potts and her fiancé James Cole; one son, Tommy McLeod; three sisters, Joyce Linker and Linda Dickens, both of Greenbrier, and Donna Romine of Jacksonville; three grandchildren, Bonnie Potts, Elizabeth Potts […]

EDITORIAL>>Special election is ill-advised

Pulaski County, which is too broke to afford to house hardly any new prisoners, is about to get $100,000 deeper in debt and be out of jail options because of the quorum court’s ill-advised decision to hold a special election. The election, set for Sept. 12, will ask voters to raise the county’s sales tax by a quarter cent to […]

FROM THE PUBLISHER >> Sheik, rattle and roll as war goes on

By GARRICK FELDMANLeader publisherYou look at this chubby figure in clerical garb (he’s eating well while his people suffer), as well as al Qaida’s No. 2 man, Ayman Al Zawahiri, both determined to kill non-Moslems, and they make you appreciate civilization. Nasrallah and Al Zawahiri remind you of the Mexican bandits in “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” — thugs who […]

TOP STORY>>Mayor opens animal shelter in Cabot

By JOAN MCCOYLeader staff writerThe opening ceremony for Cabot’s long-awaited animal shelter was held Thursday, but it was not quite the celebration that might have been expected. Mayor Stubby Stumbaugh, who presided over the ribbon cutting, criticized the seven city council members who did not attend. “It kind of surprised me,” he said. “I understand that there are some who […]

TOP STORY>>Excellence gives base free pass

By SARA GREENELeader staff writerThe men and women of Little Rock Air Force Base are so good at what they do, the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) has decided to skip next month’s scheduled Operational Readiness Inspection. Instead, AETC will inspect the base in two years to coincide with the 463rd Airlift Group’s inspection. “I’ve never been in a […]

TOP STORY>>McDaniel backs district

By GARRICK FELDMANLeader editorThe Democratic nominee for attorney general has thrown his support behind an independent Jacksonville school district, but he says federal oversight of the Pulaski County school districts must end before a new district is to be carved out in north Pulaski County. Rep. Dustin McDaniel, D-Jonesboro, told Jacksonville supporters Friday that if he’s elected in November, he […]