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Shoppers enter the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, Arkansas on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. The grocery store reopened on Tuesday, 11 days after a mass shooting that killed four. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

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Arkansas grocery store reopens in wake of mass shooting that left 4 dead
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Tue,07/02/24-2:44PM , 84 Reads
FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — The sounds that filled the Mad Butcher grocery store on Tuesday — the beeping barcode scanners, the rattle of shopping carts and cash register drawers opening — were familiar ones for customers and employees of the only grocery store in the small Arkansas town of Fordyce.
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Arkansas groups not asking US Supreme Court to review ruling limiting scope of Voting Rights Act
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Mon,07/01/24-6:01PM , 55 Reads
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Progressive groups in Arkansas have decided to not ask the U.S.
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This book cover image released by Dutton shows "John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People" by Randall Woods. (Dutton via AP)

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Book Review: 'John Quincy Adams' gives the sixth president's life the sweep and scope it deserves
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Mon,07/01/24-10:50AM , 51 Reads
To be clear, Randall Woods' “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of the sixth president is massive in both length and scope.
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Trucks sit parked in front of the Mad Butcher grocery store in Fordyce, Ark., Wednesday, June 26, 2024. The store has remained closed in the days following a mass shooting that killed four people, prompting volunteers to scramble to set up food distribution sites for residents. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

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Mass shooting shutters Arkansas town's only grocery store — for now
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Thu,06/27/24-1:37PM , 225 Reads
FORDYCE, Ark. (AP) — A steady rain was falling outside Fordyce High School, but that didn't deter an army of volunteers who raced to hand out jugs of milk and bags of groceries to a line of cars snaked around the parking lot.
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