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Mike Dollins "Cruizing" to Bluesday Tuesday

 

For tonight's Bluesday Tuesday concert in Newport, KASU Radio brings back Mike Dollins and the Cruize Brothers.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. at the Newport Country Club, 703 Walker Dr., and is free to the public. KASU will pass the hat for the band.

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Amateur cooks invited to get their grill on at Festival on the Ridge

Amateur cooks invited to get their grill on at Festival on the Ridge

 

This year’s Festival on the Ridge should be smoking hot.

For the first time ever, the festival will hold a bar-be-cue contest Friday, May 31, through Saturday, June 1, in downtown Harrisburg.

The contest is open to amateur cooks only.

Entry fees are $100 for one category, $150 for two categories.  Cash prizes will be awarded for each category:  $300 for 1st place, $200 for 2nd place and $100 for 3rd place.

Mother teaches sun safety after beating skin cancer

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – Tracy Roberts teaches third grade at
Valley View Intermediate School in Jonesboro, where she's tried to teach her
students healthy habits like protecting themselves from the sun.

"If just one person listens, that's all anybody can hope
for," Roberts said.

Roberts, a mother of three, found an irregularly shaped spot
on her leg almost four years ago. She decided to have it checked out only after
her father had a cancerous lesion removed from his back.

Perfect world of Pinterest stressing moms, businesses out

JONESBORO, AR (KAIT) – According to an article from TODAY, nearly half of moms say Pinterest causes stress.

The perfect world of Pinterest can make anyone believe that crafty cakes and to-die-for decorations are as easy as pie.

However, the final project doesn't always turn out the way it looked in the picture. Often when an attempt at perfection becomes a pinterest fail, the next solution is taking it to a professional.

AR doesn't object to group joining abortion suit

LITTLE ROCK, AR (AP) - The Arkansas attorney general's office says it has no objection to an anti-abortion group's request to help defend a new law banning the procedure 12 weeks into a pregnancy.

The attorney general's office on Thursday responded to the request by Concepts of Truth to intervene in the federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the new restriction. The Wynne-based group provides counseling to women considering getting an abortion and to women who have had the procedure.