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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.

Former Secret Service agent, TV producer to speak at ASU graduation

Former Secret Service agent, TV producer to speak at ASU graduation

 

On Saturday, May 11, almost 2,000 students will graduate Arkansas State University.  Bill Carter will deliver the commencement address.

Carter, who was inducted as one of ASU’s Distinguished Alumni in 2011, is described as a “legend in the music business world and one of the driving forces behind the restoration of the boyhood home in Dyess of the late singing great Johnny Cash.” He produced the first two Johnny Cash Music Festivals.

According to an email from ASU:

Songwriter will be signing, singing at That Bookstore

Songwriter will be signing, singing at That Bookstore

 

Little Rock singer/songwriter Peg Roach Loyd will perform a concert and sign copies of her first book from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16, at That Bookstore in Blytheville.

Her book, The Path: Songs and Stories to Quiet the Mind, Clam the Heart & Inspire the Soul, is described as an inspirational book about her journey to leave her business career in marketing and communications to focus on her passion for music and writing.

In a news release she is quoted as saying: