The Oaklawn Foundation presented 40 Garland County residents with $120,000 in scholarships Tuesday morning for the 2012-13 academic school year.In a presentation ceremony at The Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, Darrell Meyer, chairman of the Foundation, told the recipients, their family memb...

Representatives of Hot Springs Metro Partnership, The Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce and Visit Hot Springs will travel to Japan in September in an effort to develop business and tourism opportunities.Hot Springs was one of only seven U.S. cities selected by Sister Cities International to re...

The Garland County Quorum Court has approved and sent to Gov. Mike Beebe a resolution condemning the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality’s “new and excessive interpretation” of Class 4 landfill regulations affecting the construction of the Cedar Glades Landfill.ADEQ Public...

The Central Business Improvement District II, after 25 years of continuous operation, was dissolved Tuesday night by the Hot Springs Board of Directors.Meeting at 7 p.m. in City Hall, the board members voted to dissolve the improvement district in accordance with state law after the dissolution ordi...

Hot Springs Intermediate School sixth-grader Christian Boekhout, 11, will travel to Washington, D.C., to represent Arkansas in the 24th annual National Geographic Bee from May 22-24.Out of 54 contestants nationwide, Boekhout is one of 13 who are returning to compete in the event for the second conse...

TAMPA, Fla. — The CEO of JPMorgan Chase offered a quick but blunt apology to shareholders Tuesday for a $2 billion trading loss that “should never have happened” and survived a push to strip him of the title of chairman of the board.CEO Jamie Dimon, who in recent years has given ex...

A local man who robbed a restaurant car hop last summer pleaded guilty Monday in Garland County Circuit Court and was sentenced to probation and jail time.Phillip Troy Smith, 21, who lists an address of 684 Thornton Ferry Road, was set to stand trial Tuesday, but opted to plead guilty to a felony co...

Fire department initiatescitywide burn banHot Springs Fire Marshal Nate Schanlaber said Tuesday a citywide burn ban is in effect until further notice.Schanlaber said the ban is based on the potential of low fuel moisture levels, low humidity and elevated winds. It prohibits all controlled burning wi...

The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program in Hot Springs offers these service opportunities:American Cancer Society – Road to Recovery needs volunteers for transportation to/from patient treatments.American Red Cross needs volunteers to help with disaster relief programs.Area Agency on Aging ne...

On May 16, 1868, the U.S. Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on the eleven articles of impeachment against him.In 1763, the English lexicographer, author and wit Samuel Johnson first met his future biographer, James Boswell.In 1770, Marie Antoin...

“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.” – Studs Terkel, American author and historian (born this date in...

May 14Chad Noles, Arkansas Forestry Commission, 257 Blakely Camp Road, reported a theft of a box of hand tools, jumper cables and a chain saw.Jon F. Daley, 3823 Mountain Pine Road, Mountain Pine, reported a burglary. Missing were medications.Larry Fetters, Sheridan, reported a theft of a marine batt...

May 11Timmi Ridgeway reported a break-in at 120 Nickles St. Nothing was noted missing at time of report.May 12Jerry Cunningham reported a break-in at 1601 Albert Pike. Missing were hearing aids, money and medication.Kayce Crabtree reported a break-in at 122 Helen St. Missing was a debit card.Brenda...

Entergy Arkansas Inc. said Tuesday that it has started a new service to contact each customer affected by a power outage by phone.Greg Asbell, regional manager of customer service, said the service will call the number that is on file for each customer affected by an outage.Customers can also opt to...

LITTLE ROCK — Members of Occupy Little Rock who have maintained a downtown protest campsite since October said Tuesday they’ll heed a city deadline to clear out but promised that police will have to arrest some of them first.Protesters spent Tuesday tearing down their camp, which is acro...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Female soldiers this week are moving into new jobs in once all-male units as the Army breaks down formal barriers in recognition of what’s already gone on in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.The policy change announced earlier this year is being tested at nine brigades...

PARIS — Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France’s president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe’s debt crisis — only to have his plane struck by lightning. No one was hurt.It was a startling beginning for a man who promised to be a more &l...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Attorneys for John Edwards indicated Tuesday their case was winding down, but they were not yet saying whether they will call to the witness stand the former presidential candidate or his mistress.Defense attorneys said they would make a decision later Tuesday, but it was no...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama hold assets worth between nearly $2.6 million and nearly $8.3 million, according to financial disclosure reports released Tuesday by the White House.The documents show the couple’s assets for last year. The first family&rs...

WASHINGTON — Confidence among U.S. builders rose to the highest level in five years in May, a hopeful sign that modest improvement in the housing market will pick up. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index rose to 29 in May. That’s the highest readi...

WASHINGTON – Your 401(k) could sink again. A plummeting euro may make it harder for American companies to sell goods overseas. Credit could be tightened.These are all potential complications of a European debt crisis that risks spiraling out of control. And in today’s interconnected glob...

Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network’s initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network’s expected asking price is too high. The company Mar...

CHICAGO – One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study finds. That’s a poorer showing than those with other disabilities including those who are mentally disabled, the researchers sa...

ATLANTA — More teen girls now use the best kinds of birth control, a new government study says.About 60 percent of teen girls who have sex use the most effective kinds of contraception, including the pill and patch.That’s up from the mid-90s, when less than half were using the best kinds...

DEAR DOCTOR K: I have diabetes. Lately I’ve had some new, unpleasant symptoms. My doctor says they’re due to diabetic neuropathy. What is this? And what can I do about it?DEAR READER: Diabetic neuropathy is nerve damage that results from diabetes. The most common symptoms of neuropathy a...

WASHINGTON — Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don’t yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.The most ambitious attempt: An intern...

Alzheimer’s disease is a growing threat as the population gets older. Already, more than 5 million Americans have the mind-destroying disease. Barring some research breakthroughs, up to 16 million may have it by 2050. The first National Alzheimer’s Plan, adopted Tuesday, aims to slow tha...

WASHINGTON — For the second time in less than two weeks, Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has spoken by phone to a U.S. congressional hearing and alleged persecution of his relatives. Chen complained Tuesday that his elder brother and nephew had both been beaten by Chinese authorities since C...