SPORTS>>Win streak in modifieds finally ends

By JASON KINGLeader sportswriterDefending modified track champion Randy Weaver finally put his Fox Racing F1 car back in victory lane on Friday at Beebe Speedway. The Big Show fell just short of a two-class sweep, finishing right behind Bryant’s Joe Long in the street stock feature before holding off a vicious charge from veteran Mike Bowers in the modified feature.Street […]

SPORTS>>Prathet kickboxer loses title matchup

By JASON KINGLeader sportswriterJacksonville’s Prathet Muay Thai dojo took a number of fighters to the 7 Flags Event Center in Des Moines, Iowa, for the Muay Thai Classic T.B.A. Open over the weekend. More than 100 fighters showed in all, with the 34 highest-ranked fighters squaring off in the evening’s main card in a 17-bout extravaganza that was shown on […]

SPORTS>>JSA camp coached by Major Leaguers

By JASON KINGLeader sportswriterThe Jacksonville Soccer Association had a very successful camp last week, with four European coaches representing Major League Soccer on hand for the five-day event.A total of just over 50 kids came out for the camp, up from the JSA camp numbers last year. President Kimberly Rogers says the fact that Major League Soccer sponsors the camp […]

EDITORIALS>>PSC backs ratepayers

The job of the state Public Service Commission is to look out for the consumers of energy but fairly consider the profit interests of utilities. When the commission ordered Entergy Corp. Friday to reduce its base retail rate to homeowners and businesses by $5.7 million a year rather than raise them to the tune of $106.5 million as the company […]

OBITUARIES >> 6-20-07

Georgia GillettGeorgia Olive Gillett, 87, longtime resident of Beebe passed away June 18. She is survived by four daughters, Donna Fenton, Jacqueline Bregard, Patricia Kinnserly, and Mary Tucker; nine grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; one brother, Albert Meusch; two sisters, Alyce Klauz and Thelma Dodson. Family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, June 20 at Westbrook Funeral […]

TOP STORY >>Sherwood golf course appraised

By RICK KRONLeader staff writerThe city-funded appraisal is now in and states that the North Hills Golf Course is worth $2.215 million. The city-funded feasibility study, released in May, suggests that the city buy the property for $1.5 million.Pulaski County, for tax purposes, has appraised the 106-acre facility at $3.1 million. And businessman Ron Campbell made a bona-fide offer earlier […]

TOP STORY >>City clerk gets back her duties

By JOAN MCCOYLeader staff writerIn January, the Cabot City Council officially restored the duties that were stripped from Clerk-Treasurer Marva Verkler when Stubby Stumbaugh was mayor. Last week, after she lost her budget manager, Dale Walker, in a second round of layoffs to cut the city budget, she actually took over the work again after more than four years.She is […]

TOP STORY >>Accused killer pleads innocent

By PEG KENYONLeader staff writerMarlin Marbley, 24, who is accused of beating his longtime live-in girlfriend at the Plantation Village Mobile Home Park in Jacksonville Saturday, remains in jail on a $500,000 bond after he plead not guilty Monday to first-degree murder. “I’ve been told they have had domestic disturbances before…where, I don’t know,” said Lt. Martin Cass, public information […]

TOP STORY >>Anniversary for center is celebrated

By JOHN HOFHEIMERLeader senior staff writerGood things are coming to Lonoke, but one that both stimulates and symbolizes the growth is the Lonoke Community Center, which celebrated its fifth birthday Friday morning with coffee and, inappropriately enough, doughnuts. A green, steel-and-concrete mesa thrust 30 feet above the ever-decreasing agricultural landscape on Hwy.70, the 31,000-square-foot community center is an ever-changing organism, […]

TOP STORY >>Influence grows for Snyder in Congress

By JOHN HOFHEIMERLeader senior staff writerThe war in Iraq has entered its fifth year with no end in sight and scant evidence that the Iraqi government can soon stand up its own military and police forces—likely prerequisites to bringing home U.S. troops.Against that backdrop, Second District Cong. Vic Snyder, D-Little Rock, takes over July 1 as chairman of the important […]