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• Car dealership owner, wife found shot to death in Russellville home

  Keith Cogswell, 55, and his wife, Leanna Cogswell, 39, were found shot to death at their Shiloh Road home today by their maid, KTHV-TV, Ch. 11, reports. The Pope County Sheriff's Office, the Russellville Police Department and the Arkansas State Police are investigating.

• 'Path to Radicalization': How an Arkansas family came to be haters

  A tweet by Davy Carter, the former Republican speaker of the state House of Representatives and a resident Cabot alerted us to this NBC documentary on how a family in Lonoke County became radicalized by Nazis.

• Sen. Trent Garner continues to grandstand, again calls for impeachment of Judge Wendell Griffen

  State Sen. Trent Garner, a free speech skeptic and drudging demagogue, has once again called for the impeachment of Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen. If 34 House members sign on to a resolution, impeachment proceedings would proceed. Rep. Bob Ballinger is already on board. A look at the controversy, how the impeachment process works, and the response from House Speaker Jeremy Gillam.

• Clarke Tucker touts shift in Cook Political Report outlook for Second District

  The Cook Political Report, essentially a fantasy baseball website for people who enjoy politics instead of sports, offered a relatively encouraging outlook for Democrats in the state's Second Congressional District today. The site announced that it was shifting the district from "Likely R" to "Lean R." Get excited.

• More grants to Ecclesia surface

  Then-state senator and Senate president pro tempore Michael Lamoureux insisted that a state organization that distributed GIF funds approve a grant to Ecclesia College despite problems with the college's application, a witness in the public corruption trial of former Sen. Jon Woods testified today.

Most Recent Comments

• Re: Wild, wild country

  • Somebody's lost pet, perhaps?

  • Posted by Steven E
  • on April 19, 2018

• Re: 'Path to Radicalization': How an Arkansas family came to be haters

  • BMC, I do not believe the problem has arisen out of the last 400 days,…

  • Posted by Steven E
  • on April 19, 2018

• Re: Wild, wild country

  • Poor thing looks like he lost his way to whatever water he lives in. (And…

  • Posted by Kate
  • on April 19, 2018

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