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Today in History

Today is Monday, March 10, the 69th day of 2014. There are 296 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History:
On March 10, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed an order assigning Ulysses S. Grant, who had just received his commission as

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Public Affairs Calendar

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Disappearing ink

Kellie Cobb | The Sun

Susan Whiteland (right) of Jonesboro looks through old newspapers while Brooke Mundy, an intern at the Art Museum at the University of Memphis, fills out an inventory form on Friday at The Jonesboro Sun office. Mundy and Jason Miller, a media specialist at AMUM, were collecting items for the upcoming exhibition, “Disappearing Ink.”

By KELLIE COBB, Sun Staff Writer, kb@jonesborosun.com
JONESBORO — A murder mystery, a series of newspapers chronicling the John F. Kennedy assassination and the events that followed and the 1998 Starr report printed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette —

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Jonesboro to see action as tourneys resume

Rob Holt | The Sun

Jonesboro’s Marquise Pointer (left) drives past El Dorado’s Keenan Hicks during the third quarter of Thursday night’s Class 6A state tournament game at Don Riggs Hurricane Gym. Jonesboro plays Little Rock Fair in the quarterfinals today at 2:30 p.m.

JONESBORO — Four Craighead County high school basketball teams will take the court today as state tournaments resume with quarterfinal games in five classifications and semifinal contests in the other two. Jonesboro (26-3) takes on Little Rock Fair. . . more »

Which team won the first NBA title and what year?

True or False. Pete Maravich made the top 50 NBA players of all time?

What's a golfer said to have if he is entitled to tee off first?

The largest crowd to see an NBA game was how many?

What did John Daly number the new iron he began teeing off with in 1996, because it had virtually no loft?

Who averaged the most points in a NBA game through a season and how many?

Whose tennis serve was the fastest ever recorded?

Who is the All time NBA assist leader and how many?

Obituaries for March 11

NEA lands $165 million poultry operation

Lawmakers seek answers from highway officials
Report: Morale improves at Game and Fish
Land donated for med school near Fort Smith
Bakery accused of unfair labor practices
Obama, Ukraine PM to meet
Ex-Christie aides: Withdraw traffic subpoenas
US embracing public transportation in largest numbers since the 1950s
'Band of Brothers' vet Guarnere dies
Tractor-trailer explosion investigated
Threat case headed back to court
Murder trial on tap in Blytheville
Putin: Separatist drive is legal
Missing jet passengers under scrutiny
Suicide car bomb, attacks kill dozens in Iraq
Violence kills civilians in Afghanistan

Read about all these and more in today's print edition or online e-Edition.

Demme selling vast art collection in Pa.
A riot of color greeted Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme the first time he walked into Haitian Corner, an art gallery around the corner from his Manhattan apartment. Instantly transfixed, he left with a $250 painting by Haitian master Wilson Bigaud. . . .
'Band of Brothers' Guarnere dies at 90
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — William "Wild Bill" Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries "Band of Brothers," has died at the age of 90. Guarnere's son, William Guarnere Jr., confirmed Sunday that his father . . .

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