January 2025

Bears Magic Moments

OZARK MOUNTAIN – Maci Brumley highlighted the game at Life Way Christian Tuesday, January 21. Brumley scored 26 points, 4 assists and 6 rebounds by making eight (8) 3-point baskets in the win over Life Way Christian.
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Fulbright College honors more than 2,000 students for Fall 2024 Chancellor’s List at the U of A

FAYETTEVILLE -- More than 2,000 students were named to the Fall 2024 Chancellor›s List in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. To qualify for the Chancellor’s List, students must achieve at least a 4.00 gradepoint average for the semester while completing at least 12 credit hours.
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Dixon Scores 1,000th Point

Ozark Mountain – Tate Dixon, Ozark Mountain High School basketball player, scored his 1,000th point Friday, January 17 at Ozark Catholic High School. “Tate hitting 1,000 (points) as a Junior is an accomplishment we are very proud of.
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AG Operation Obscured Vision to Fight Human Trafficking Statewide

LITTLE ROCK – Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement announcing the execution of search warrants at 12 locations across the state as part of Operation Obscured Vision to combat human trafficking, resulting in aid provided to 16 victims, the arrest of four individuals, and the seizure of nearly $70,000 and a luxury vehicle: “January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and the best way to prevent human trafficking and rescue its victims is to combat it on one of its key fronts: illicit massage parlors.
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Mott Pardoned

FLIPPIN - On January 6, 2021, approximately 2,000 people protested the Donald J. Trump presidential election loss by storming the Capitol Building with violent behavior. Many of the protestors were arrested and charged with crimes ranging from serious violent crimes to unlawful entry into the Capitol Building.
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Paul Waters of Omaha

Paul “Pauly” David Waters, 66, of Omaha, passed away with his wife and fur baby by his side on January 22, 2025, at his home. He was born on February 28, 1958, in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Paul Denver and Gladys Maire (Keck) Waters.
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Eagles believe Barkley makes them a better team for their Super Bowl rematch with the Chiefs

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jalen Hurts and coach Nick Sirianni are ready for a Super Bowl rematch with Patrick Mahomes and former Eagles coach Andy Reid. Two years after the Kansas City Chiefs knocked off the Eagles in the Super Bowl — and won another last season — the teams will play again on February 9 in New Orleans.
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Panthers bring the Brooms out

The Bergman Panthers and Lady Panthers hosted the Melbourne Bearkatz and Lady Bearkatz battle for playoff seeding in a huge district contest on Tuesday, January 21 at Bergman High School with three games starting at 5 p.m. As the fans started filing into the building, the tension began to fill the air.
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HAH need help

Greetings from the Have-A-Heart Pet Shelter (HAH). We are sending out an S.O.S. message from all the dogs and cats, puppies and kittens who live at the Shelter while waiting for just the right person(s) to take them to furever homes.
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Lightin Ridge

The Missouri Department of Conservation has told a few dozen landowners in Texas county they intend to come into a 25-square-mile tract of land and set up bait and lights to night-shoot 110 deer. This is part of an attempt to find transmissible spongiform encephalitis, which they commonly call CWD or ‘chronic wasting disease’.
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