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• Proposed Sherwood school district draws resistance 

  22-09-2026 23:01 via arktimes.com
  
  Some leaders in the McAlmont community near North Little Rock are asking fellow residents to jump into a conversation about whether the city of Sherwood should form its own public school district. A meeting about the potential schism that would carve a number of schools out of the Pulaski County Special School District is scheduled for Thursday at 6 p.m. at 4411 AR-161, North Little Rock, across from Harris Elementary. 
  
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• Garland County woman hit with felony charge for pretending to be pregnant while on trial 

  22-09-2026 22:06 via arktimes.com
  
  On one hand, you kind of have to grudgingly respect the chutzpah it took for Christina Marie Gaston, 48, to pretend to be pregnant in the hopes a jury might be sympathetic and keep her out of jail.On the other hand, the fact that her little ruse could keep her in jail for multiple more years suggests that bold or not, the effort backfired spectacularly. So maybe save your applause and just offer a more muted fist pump in celebration.
  
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• From the inbox: Republicans force us to think about their odd relationships with dogs

  22-09-2026 21:39 via arktimes.com
  
  It’s not exactly news that up is down and black is white in Trump’s America. Ten years into this heinous MAGA experiment, most of us have gotten pretty good at putting the constant outrages and oxymorons aside so that we’re able to go about our days.But sometimes? Sometimes D.C. Republicans do things so outrageous that we have to stop what we’re doing, confer amongst our peers and make sure they’re seeing it, too.
  
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• South Korean defense contractor will build $2.2 billion factory at Pine Bluff Arsenal

  22-09-2026 19:30 via arktimes.com
  
  A South Korean company announced Monday it will build its first United States facility that produces artillery ammunition at Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, creating about 400 jobs with an average wage of $50 per hour over seven years.Hanwha Defense USA’s $2.2 billion factory “is the kind of transformational investment Jefferson County and the Delta need,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at Monday’s news conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony that celebrated the open
  
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• Arkansas corrections department abandons restrictions on physical books, newspapers

  22-09-2026 19:25 via arktimes.com
  
  The Arkansas Department of Corrections will shift its focus away from creating a policy restricting access to physical books in an effort to prevent illegal drugs from entering prisons, officials told the state corrections board Monday. Officials instead plans to tighten the language of a 2022 policy and give the department more authority to ban “misbehaving” third-parties selling publications laced with drugs to incarcerated people, said Tawnie Hughes, the department’s ch
  
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• Inside Arkansas’ first dark-sky neighborhood, where you can see the Milky Way

  22-09-2026 19:11 via arktimes.com
  
  On a recent evening at Lakeview West, an upscale subdivision perched above Lake Maumelle with sweeping views of the Ouachitas, I found myself at an impromptu star party. As the sun dipped behind the mountains, homeowner and amateur astronomer Lori Gerritsen pointed out constellations to neighbors and out-of-town guests gathered on her patio. They sipped wine and observed the kind of celestial display that’s invisible from my light-polluted yard in North Little Rock.A shooting star streaked
  
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• An incomplete 9-2-5 Dolly Day lineup

  22-09-2026 16:49 via arktimes.com
  
  Seekers of proof for intelligent design will find it this week as the Gregorian calendar, in the year of Dolly Parton’s death, delivers the date of 9-25 on a Friday. If laughter through tears is your favorite emotion, you’ve got plenty of opportunities to mourn our universal icon while celebrating that we got to have her on this planet with us for 80 wonderful years.
  
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