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KANSAS CITY, Mo. >> Mark and Jennifer Swartz moved into their first home in November. Today, only a section of floor was left of their three-bedroom, two-bath house in Oak Grove, Missouri, after a storm system that dropped more than 30 tornadoes...

Lou Whitney, 72, a music producer based in Springfield, Missouri, whose mentoring and influence on other musicians far exceeded his fame as a bassist with The Morells and The Skeletons, died of cancer Tuesday, reported the Springfield News-Leader. Before...

“My whole fiber is this town,” Ozarks songwriter Lyal Strickland reflects, surveying the landscape from the porch of what once was his great-grandparents’ home. “This land runs through me.” Strickland’s new album, Balanced on Barbed Wire, available...

Don’t listen to what they say. Fall doesn’t start after Labor Day. Fall doesn’t start September 22 with the autumnal equinox. Fall starts when the culinary craze of pumpkin spice products appear in grocery stores and coffee shops. While you’re studiously...

Since 2009, the Arkansas Times has solicited suggestions from readers and a variety of experts on how to make Arkansas a better place to live. 2012 Give art jobs to teen-agers By Leslie Newell Peacock John Gaudin has so many ideas for North Little...