The Mariners are presenting a positive outlook on the health of one of their most valuable arms, even with Matt Brash landing on the 15-day injured list Friday with right lat inflammation. The club plans to be cautious with Brash's recovery; he will be shut down from throwing for up to five days, general manager Justin Hollander said. Overall, Hollander said, the club is encouraged at the results of an MRI, which showed no structural damage in Brash's lat muscle. "The one definitive thing we can tell based on what we saw (from the imaging) is that it's not bad-bad," Hollander said Friday af

Catching fish isn't the goal anymore when I head to the White River. No, just going is what it's all about. Oh, it helps when you catch a big brown trout like I did on three of my last four trips over the last 10 days. But my last trip Wednesday wasn't anything special, but just as much fun. I field tested a new rod and some new fly fishing hooks. It was delightful. I caught only five or six rainbow trout over two hours of fishing at one of favorite spots below Bull Shoals Dam. It wasn't electric like Sunday when I caught 43 in three hours.

America's worrisome dependency on foreign sources of lithium could become a thing of the past: About 328 years' worth of last year's lithium imports is buried in Appalachia, according to a new analysis published by the US Geological Survey (USGS). That's about 2.3 million metric tons of undiscovered but economically recoverable lithium -- aka "white gold." "This research shows that the Appalachians contain enough lithium to help meet the nation's growing needs - a major contribution to U.S.

The Memphis Grizzlies traded Desmond Bane to the Orlando Magic on June 15, 2025, in exchange for four unprotected first-round picks in 2025 (Yang Hansen), 2026, 2028, and 2030, a first-round pick swap in 2027, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and Cole Anthony.

FAYETTEVILLE -- A Lincoln man received an 80-year prison sentence for sex crimes this week after a three-day jury trial in Washington County Circuit Court. A jury convicted Quinten Manchie Harvey, 26, of Lincoln on Wednesday of two counts of rape and three counts of second-degree sexual assault, according to a news release from the Washington County Prosecutor's Office. Circuit Judge Joanna Taylor presided over the trial.

For 14 days in early April, patients at White River Health in Batesville, Arkansas who held UnitedHealthcare insurance faced a significant coverage disruption. White River Health went out of network for UnitedHealthcare commercial and Medicare Advantage members on April 1, 2026 after the two sides failed to reach a contract agreement by the March 31 deadline. The standoff ended on April 14, 2026. White River Health announced a new two-year agreement with UnitedHealthcare covering commercial plans, along with an extension for Medicare Advantage plans through December 31, 2026.

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The Northwest Arkansas Council recently released six strategy documents related to the group's regional vision.

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Arizona seeking access to the state's detailed voter records, the latest legal setback in a nationwide effort by the Trump administration. U.S. District Judge Susan Brnovich, a Trump appointee, wrote that Arizona's statewide voter registration list is "not a document subject to request by the Attorney General" under federal law.

Southerners have a lower life expectancy than people living in other U.S. states, which experts attribute to several possible factors. Several studies have shown that Americans in some areas of the Southern U.S. often have lower life expectancy and poorer overall health than those who live in other regions of the country.