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7 Feb 2024, 5:55 am by Joseph Nunn
In that instance, Governor Orval Faubus was using the Arkansas National Guard to openly defy a federal court order to immediately integrate Little Rock Central High School. [read post]
20 Jun 2020, 2:30 pm by Tyler Gillett
The documents also showed that an RC-26 from the Wisconsin Air National Guard was sent to fly over protests in Minneapolis, supported by a unit from the Arkansas National Guard. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 8:28 am
To help out with these efforts, members of the Arkansas National Guard’s Agricultural Development Team (ADT) received training on January 25 and January 26, 2010 “from the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences animal science, poultry science and entomology faculty members . . . [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 7:39 am by Steve Hall
Prison officials across the nation are grappling with a shortage of an anesthetic called sodium thiopental that is one of three drugs used in a lethal injection. [read post]
18 Jan 2008, 8:18 am
Robert Stein: Half a century ago, after the Supreme Court desegregation decision, an Arkansas governor named Orval Faubus stood in the doorway of Central High School in Little Rock with National Guard members to keep African American teenagers out. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 8:03 am
Coast Guard rejected safety improvements to Duck Boats suggested by the National Transportation Safety Board in the wake of a 1999 accident that drown 13 riders in Hot Springs, Arkansas, according to CNN. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 6:13 am
Christopher Heathscott, a spokesman for the Arkansas National Guard, said the state’s 39th Brigade Combat Team was 600 rifles short for its 3,500 soldiers and also lacked its full arsenal of mortars and howitzers. [read post]
4 Jul 2015, 9:07 am by Susan Schneider
Because a diverse agriculture is such an important aspect of Arkansas's economy - it has an impact of more than $20 billion annually - there are many opportunities for Veterans in Arkansas agriculture.The program is open to any veteran and active duty, National Guard or Reserve member. [read post]
9 Dec 2021, 6:01 am by Emily Eslinger, Michel Paradis
And a host of National Guard Regulations (NGRs) issued by the Defense Department’s National Guard Bureau govern the National Guard’s organization, standards and routine operations. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Arkansas National Guard troops and large crowd outside of Little Rock’s Central High School, September 5, 1957 Eisenhower declared: The very basis of our individual fights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the President and the Executive Branch of Government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the Federal Courts, even, when necessary with all the means at the President’s command. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 5:17 pm by Cynthia L. Hackerott
An employer’s omission of Arkansas Army National Guard member, who was deployed in Iraq at the time, from a list of employees provided to a successor employer as a part of the asset sale did not constitute actionable discrimination in violation of USERRA, a federal district court in Arkansas has ruled. [read post]
11 Feb 2012, 1:59 am
In addition, the services have to discharge about 1,200 entry-level candidates each year because they can't meet fitness standards.Added to that, 20 percent of active-duty and National Guard military health-system beneficiaries between the ages of 40 and 49 are obese, according to an article in Navy Times. [read post]
4 Mar 2018, 9:45 pm by Staycie R. Sena
  Jordan was employed by the Jefferson Regional Medical Center and serves in the United States Army National Guard. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 5:52 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Today’s “Operation Big Winner” was conducted by the DEA, United States Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Arkansas State Police, Pulaski County Sheriffs Department, Sherwood Police Department, North Little Rock Police Department, Jefferson County Sheriffs Department, Central Arkansas Drug Task Force, Benton Police Department, White County Sheriffs Department, Lonoke County Sheriffs Department, and the Arkansas National… [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 9:30 pm by ernst
In 1924, a compromise between the two factions was reached, under which Jones represented Arkansas in Republican National Conventions in 1928 and 1940.Jones’s first professional association was the National Negro Business League (NNBL), founded in 1900 by Booker T. [read post]
11 Sep 2007, 1:27 pm
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1957 crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas, when the state's national guard, on orders from Governor Orval Faubus, came to aid white “citizens' counsels” determined to keep nine black school children out of all-white Central High School. [read post]
2 Sep 2022, 10:01 am
. 'It depicts the president of our nation, as he took to the airwaves and spoke about his fellow citizens as if they were sewer rats.' Rick Scott, the Republican Senate campaign chief, tweeted the photo and dismissed Biden as a 'raving lunatic' who 'attacked half the country tonight.' Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, called it a 'hate speech.' Over on Fox News, Tucker Carlson was very, very angry about the 'blood-red… [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 8:57 am
Another similar request was filed with state National Guard agencies with regard to cooperative agreements these agencies have with local law enforcement departments and also how many incidents of contact National Guard soldiers have had with civilians. [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 4:37 am by Jon Gelman
"The Ebola outbreak is a reminder that we cannot afford to let our guard down.Five states—Maryland, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia—tied for the top score by achieving 8 of 10 indicators, while Arkansas had the lowest score, at 2 of 10, according to the report.Thirteen states achieved 6 of the 10 indicators, making the largest score group. [read post]