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The company owns 32 daily newspapers and numerous weekly newspapers, mostly in the southern United States. Daily circulation totals 350,000. Holdings include The Paducah Sun, the High Point Enterprise in High Point, North Carolina, the Jonesboro Sun in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and the Daily Star in Hammond, Louisiana and The Daily Citizen in Searcy ...
Families of victims awarded $150 million in wrongful death lawsuit against Johnson and Golden. On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [1] Perpetrators Mitchell Johnson, 13, and Andrew Golden, 11, fatally shot four students and a teacher ...
The Morning News [39] 2009 [39] Merged with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette' s northwest operation [39] Mountain View Herald. Mountain View. 1932. 1953. Merged with the Stone County Leader.
History. A-State was founded as the First District Agricultural School in Jonesboro in 1909 by the Arkansas Legislature as a regional agricultural training school.Robert W. Glover, a Missionary Baptist pastor who served in both houses of the Arkansas Legislature from Sheridan (1905–1912), introduced in 1909 the resolution calling for the establishment of four state agricultural colleges ...
Website. jonesboro .org. Jonesboro is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. In 2022, the city had an estimated population of 79,876, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas. In 2020, the Jonesboro metropolitan area had ...
Centennial Bank Stadium. / 35.84889°N 90.66722°W / 35.84889; -90.66722. Centennial Bank Stadium is a football stadium located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on the campus of Arkansas State University that is home to the Arkansas State Red Wolves football team. The stadium opened in 1974 as Indian Stadium named after the old nickname of the ...
Lynching of Wade Thomas. / 35.838149; -90.70495. On December 26, 1920, an African-American man named Wade Thomas was lynched in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by a white mob. The mob seized Thomas from the Jonesboro jail after he allegedly shot local Patrolman Elmer Ragland, and murdered him.
Arkansas State Archives. The Arkansas State Archives, or State Archives for short and abbreviated as ASA, is an agency of the Division of Arkansas Heritage responsible for the preservation of state government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents which make up the State Archive.