Top Local Stories from Ozarks at Large
Startup Junkie’s Fuel Accelerator returns this spring with its equity-free health tech program focused on enterprise sales and commercialization. Alumna Lexi Applequist of Humimic Biosystems shares how the program helped position her organ-on-a-chip company for growth.
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Tom Homan says this federal force will stay "for a short period of time" to protect immigration agents who remain as the sweeping crackdown draws down.
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More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense violence" in Sudan's Darfur region in late October, according to the UN.
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"There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday.
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This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they face a new obstacle: budget cuts.
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Beyond the Ozarks
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A preview of the Feb. 7 symposium from the Black History Commission of Arkansas in Little Rock, as historian Ralph Wilcox explains the origins, reach and fragile legacy of Rosenwald schools across the South.
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Arkansas lawmakers raised concerns over a DHS proposal to shift Medicaid in-home personal care eligibility decisions to physicians. Officials agreed to pull the rule and rework it.
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- New UA resolution shifts sources for athletic funding — Faith leaders gather for 'prayer guard'
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