The annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index ranks eight Southern states among the bottom 10, with West Virginians taking 50th for the fourth year in a row. West Virginians were the least likely to be thriving, as was the case in 2011. Also, West Virginians had the worst emotional health in the nation and were more likely…
Florida Face-Chewing Victim Provides Details to Police Georgia City Cracks Down on ‘Foam Parties’ Best States to Live in 2032: Alabama, 44th | Arkansas, 46th | Florida, 45th | Maryland, 10th | Mississippi, 49th | Virginia, 6th | West Virginia, 50th SOCIETY Drought: Continues to Worsen in Arkansas | Kentucky Counties Added to Disaster List…
MONTICELLO — Although my wife may contend differently, summer is still in session. Granted after my finally falling into bed at 4 a.m. following an ongoing website reorganization, she can be forgiven for assuming I’m back to full-time work mode. I’m not. Just letting you know links will not be posted today as I prep…
MONTICELLO — If you didn’t pay attention to the last week’s chicken controversy, you obviously did not have time on your hands. Congratulations from everyone else tarred-and-feathered from the culture wars this last week. Yet not everybody appreciates the further awakening of a food consciousness nearly as much as this woman: “Food choices are intrinsically…
Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Florida Deliberately Curtails Vote Southern Baptists: Mississippi Church Wrong to Reject Black Couple’s Wedding Kentucky Man Fulfills Brother’s Dying Wish by Giving $500 Tips High Auto Insurance Costs: Florida, 10th | South Carolina, 12th | Alabama, 20th | North Carolina, 50th SOCIETY First Hindu Temple Opens in Arkansas Tennessee Natives Married…
Lottery sales keep breaking records this summer: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina and Tennessee. Some states essentially made the lottery into an education lifeline, but not all of the money goes to education as shown in this South Carolina example. Missouri budgeted for an increase that did not occur. Ohio educators claim…
Arkansas Stymied on Executions – Victim’s Family Prepares for 2nd Trial Georgia Paroles Board Weighs Clemency for Man Facing Wednesday Execution SOCIETY Law Allowing Quicker Marriages Boosts Applications on Mississippi’s Coast Mississippi’s Only Abortion Clinic Saved, For Now Letters of South Carolina Soldier Killed in Vietnam Come Home Mississippi Waiter’s ‘Magical Moment’ Renews Race Relations…
MONTICELLO, Ark. — As promised, a flashback to last weekend when a group of Arkansans mobilized in Pine Bluff, Ark., to defend the honor of a U.S. soldier whose funeral was targeted by the Westboro Baptist Church. Thanks to Aaron Etue of Flip Out Photography, we can show you the scene. First a little background…
An Arkansas high school teacher’s facebook page to “Preserve the Honor of Fallen Pine Bluff Soldier” plans to buffer funeral participants from a Westboro Baptist Church protest Saturday afternoon at Pine Bluff’s St. Joseph Catholic Church. John Allison, a 44-year-old former Marine who teaches math at Vilonia High School, started the page Friday afternoon; by midnight, 62…
