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  2. 1998 Westside Middle School shooting - Wikipedia

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    On March 24, 1998, a school shooting occurred at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas near the city of Jonesboro. [1] Perpetrators 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 11-year-old Andrew Golden fatally shot four students and a teacher with multiple weapons, and both were arrested when they attempted to flee the scene.

  3. West Memphis Three - Wikipedia

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    The West Memphis Three are three men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the ...

  4. Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Website. jonesboro .org. Jonesboro ( / ˈdʒoʊnzbʌrə /) 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.

  5. Arkansas State University - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Church War of Jonesboro - Wikipedia

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    The Church Wars of Jonesboro were a series of conflicts in Jonesboro, Arkansas between followers of the fundamentalist evangelist Joe Jeffers and the Reverend Dow H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro. Members of Jeffers' congregation also attacked the mayor and police chief, resulting in Governor Harvey Parnell calling out ...

  7. Category:People from Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    W. Crown Prince Waterford. John Williams (first baseman) Zach Williams (musician) Elana Wills. Categories: Jonesboro, Arkansas. People by populated place in Arkansas. People from Craighead County, Arkansas.

  8. Category:Politicians from Jonesboro, Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Politicians from Jonesboro, Arkansas" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. Sonny Burgess - Wikipedia

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    Biography. Burgess was born on a farm near Newport, Arkansas to Albert and Esta Burgess. [1] He graduated from Newport High School in 1948. In the early 1950s, Burgess played boogie woogie music in dance halls and bars around Newport. Burgess, Kern Kennedy, Johnny Ray Hubbard, and Gerald Jackson formed a boogie-woogie band they called the Rocky ...

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