The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."- William Blak"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."- Marcel Proust "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out

Twin Lakes Plaza's new manager says prospective tenants are making the phones ring in the posh, 125,000-square-foot structure at the corner of U.S. Highway 62 and Wallace Knob Road.

There's been a lot of advice and tips everywhere you turn on ways to prepare your turkey for Thanksgiving.

William Henry Hanson, 45, formerly of Gamaliel and a fugitive for nearly four years on 20 local charges of animal cruelty, was sentenced Wednesday in Baxter County District Court to eight months in jail.

WASHINGTON — With Americans anxious about unemployment, the potential cost of health care reform and the anti-terrorism strategy the U.S. will follow in Afghanistan and at home, President Barack Obama has a huge sales job ahead.

To help stop the spread of the fungus thought to cause White Nose Syndrome, which is fatal to bats, many Buffalo National River caves are now closed to recreational caving until further notice, the park's superintendent announced this week. Bat

WASHINGTON (AP) — After 10 months in office, President Barack Obama granted his first pardon Wednesday to "Courage," a 45-pound turkey spared from the Thanksgiving table.

NORFORK — Baxter County Sheriff's Sgt. Robert Buschbacher is investigating a weekend break-in at the Norfork High School and the theft of electronic equipment. He said it occurred Saturday night or early Sunday.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — An Arkansas prisons spokeswoman says state prisons director Larry Norris has announced he will retire Jan. 4 from the job he has held for 16 years.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Officials with Arkansas' largest food bank say hackers managed to disable its Web site for nearly three weeks.

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — The Arkansas State Police have launched a criminal probe into an Ozark police officer's use of a stun gun on a 10-year-old girl.

A daughter got a call out of the blue stating that her mother's insurance ran out and the nursing home was releasing their mother. The woman had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed. However, the nursing home would not give

Here's something to be grateful for: Feds drop money-laundering case against Miami lawyer Ben Kuehne. Justice was done too slowly here. But at least it was done....

I wrote the post below about Phil Agre seven weeks ago, but somehow never put it online. Now I read via the Great Grimmelmann that Phil Agre Is Missing and there is a web site dedicated to finding Phil Agre.

UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files. In the UK under the odious Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), if you are served with an order to disclose a passphrase to an encrypted file and you don't, you're guilty.

The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it — steal our stories, we say they steal our stories — they just take them. That's Google, that's Microsoft, that's Ask.com, a whole lot of people ... they

You're a 19-year-old pimp in Seattle running a stable of ho's. You know there's always the possibility you could get busted and have your ass tossed in jail. But, hey, you're providing a service to John Q. Public who comes