Tag Archive for Arkansas

The Westside Middle School Shooting Remembered, Twenty Years Ago

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By Kimberely Blackburn – Delta Digital News Service – JONESBORO, Ark. – Before Parkland, a year before Columbine, 20 years ago this month on March 24, 1988, two Westside Middle School students — armed with seven handguns and three rifles — entered the school and pulled a fire alarm. As their teachers and classmates filed…

Death Penalty Drug Sparks Controversy in Arkansas

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By Kimberely Blackburn – Delta Digital News Service – VARNER, Ark. — The last man Arkansas plans to execute in April is not a saint. Sentenced to life for the 1998 death of University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff cheerleader Dominique Hurd, Kenneth Williams escaped in 1999 after 19 days in prison. Williams robbed and…

Wyoming Replaces Alabama as the Most Conservative State in the U.S.

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The Word ‘Liberal’ is Experiencing a Resurgence in American Life – By Glynn Wilson – Could it be that the people of my home state are finally starting to get their news online and waking up to the ravages of run amok corporate capitalism and the do-nothing nature of conservative Republicans who don’t know how…