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Hunter Biden just paid over $1 million in back taxes for income he never claimed, but which was found in his emails — the ones from his laptop that had been dismissed by the mainstream media as Russian disinformation. The FBI is conducting an ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter’s business activities based on the contents of the laptop. It was only the Bureau’s use of the laptop as evidence that finally forced the New York Times this month to admit that what it said last year was false. See, as the New York Post broke the story that a laptop...

A local man says he took the drug hydroxychloroquine while he had COVID-19 and within a few days felt better. He did this despite warnings from the majority of medical organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health warning against it. Steve Allen of Van Buren was diagnosed with COVID-19 at the end of July. “I just felt like it was getting a sinus infection," Allen said. Allen says after his doctor refused to prescribe him anything he got a prescription for hydroxychloroquine, zinc and vitamin...

On Tuesday, a statue of the Ten Commandments was installed at the Arkansas Capitol grounds. Less than a day later, it had been run over by a car and destroyed. Michael Reed, a 32-year-old from Van Buren, Arkansas with a history of mental illness, recorded himself ramming his car into the monument, shouting "freedom" shortly before impact. Reed has previously been accused of destroying a similar Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma.

Flood damage is mounting to the south and west of the Cape Girardeau area, with many victims in the hardest-hit areas experiencing loss of phone service, including cellphones, and in some places electricity and tap water. While those areas are seeing raging floods recede, those along the Mississippi are waiting as the big river is expected to crest at stages rivaling some of the highest marks on record. But whether affected by small rivers to the south and west or to the Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau, Missouri flood victims are bracing for another serious rain event forecast in just...

Video at the linkRepublican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, brought his “Cruz Country” bus tour to Arkansas on Wednesday, making a stop in Van Buren along the way in support of his bid for the White House.Addressing a large crowd at the Republican Party of Crawford County’s 2015 Lincoln Day Dinner, Cruz, one of the 17 Republicans in the 2016 presidential race, said Americans have grown weary of “campaign conservatives” and were looking for a consistent candidate who would remain truthful to campaign promises.He promised if elected he would be tougher on illegal immigration, would secure the nation’s borders...

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A State Department whistleblower has come forward to say the details of a former colleague’s account of the sifting of Benghazi-related documents to identify damaging material “ring true.” The Daily Signal reported Monday on Raymond Maxwell, a former deputy assistant secretary at the State Department who says he observed an unusual after-hours session in a basement operations room of the agency’s headquarters in Washington in October 2012. Maxwell said a State Department office director told him those present were ordered to separate out any documents related to the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on Americans in Benghazi that could prove...

Gun-rights advocates have scheduled an open-carry “awareness walk” for Saturday in Van Buren, the second walk this month in the River Valley involving people openly carrying handguns in holsters. The walk on Saturday is set to begin at 9 a.m. at the Van Buren Public Library parking lot, according to Steve Jones, chairman of Arkansas Carry, a statewide gun-rights group. From the library, the group will walk north on Main Street to North 20th Street, then cross Main Street and go south to Cane Hill Street. From that point, the group will walk back to the library, Jones said. Jones...

Authorities offer no motive behind shootings of 22–year–old's three teenage sisters and his parents. By SHAWNA RICHTER srichter@thehawkeye.com BONAPARTE — A 22–year–old Bonaparte native was charged Sunday with murdering his parents and three sisters at their rural home early Saturday morning. Shawn Bentler, who lives in Quincy, Ill., allegedly shot his father, Michael Bentler, 53; his mother, Sandra, 47; and his three sisters, 17–year–old Sheena, 15–year–old Shelby and 14–year–old Shayne, at their home at 23894 Hawk Road, authorities said Sunday. Bentler was charged with five counts of first–degree murder and is being held on a $2.5 million bond at the...

Christmas In America My fellow Americans, It’s that most wonderful time of the year. With the onset of Christmas and Hanukkah, hundreds of millions of Americans will gather with family and friends to celebrate these most Holy days. As we honor the traditions of the holiday season, it’s important that we take the opportunity to realize just how blessed we are - not only because of the fulfilling spirit we derive from our faith, but because here in America we have a right to exercise our faith without fear of government oppression or mandate. This freedom is a blessing...

Arkansas Freerepublic will have a meeting September 21 at 4:30 pm, is going to be: Big Jake's Cattle Company 1702 Fayetteville Road Van Buren, Arkansas 72956 479-474-5573Here's a map. http://maps.yahoo.com/py/pmap.py?Pyt=Typ&addr=1702+Fayetteville+Rd&csz=Van+Buren,+AR+72956&city=Van+Buren&state=AR&csz=Van+Buren,+AR+72956&slt=35.460035&sln=-94.356430&zip=72956&country=us&BFKey=&BFCat=&BFClient=&mag=9&cs=9&name=Big+Jake%27s+Cattle+Co&desc=(479)+474-5573&ds=n It is just off I-40 at the Hwy 59 South exit. This is the easiest place from either OK or those traveling west out of Little Rock, or south from NWA.