NFL referee Walt Coleman drew from personal experience Tuesday morning to illustrate how the Biblical admonition to do the right thing doesnât necessarily equate with popularity. 

 In March, under the leadership of Pastor Randy Hester, Olive Hill Missionary Baptist Church of Mabelvale voted to sponsor a new church in the city of Conway.  Much prayer and preparation preceded this action and the direction of God was evident throughout the process.

Barbara Davidson was recently inducted into the Tri-County Bowling Hall of Fame.

Hope that everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We never know what one day to another will bring. On Thanksgiving Day I received a phone call that one of my co workers, James Thomas, mechanic's helper, had been shot in his own home and killed at 5 a.m. in the morning. There were five other people in the home that were not hurt. ...

The bill to give the stirring writer Thomas Paine his day passed in the state House of Representatives this time. But, again, the issue invoked intolerance of differences of opinion on religion.

Conway's long distance runner Matt Woods is having a great spring.

Editor's note: The following if the second of a two-part series about events happening around Arkansas in March.

"So when exactly did your junior senator become unbeatable?" That was a query hurled at me last week by one of those inside-the-Beltway political types during my brief excursion to the nation's capital.

AThe Faulkner County Grounds and Maintenance Committee met on Tuesday afternoon to walk through and approve the purchase of a building on Robinson Street.

LITTLE ROCK Stories of alleged beatings and sexual abuse prompted Arkansas child-welfare officials to seize 20 children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, an official said Wednesday.