- Little Rock’s 2019 homicide rate has already exceeded last year’s, although the city’s police chief points to a high rate of suspects arrested and charged as a silver lining.
- NIMBYs in Bryant are angry that a LKQ auto body warehouse is slated for construction near Interstate 30.
- Climate change activist Greta Thunberg named TIME magazine’s Person of the Year.
- President Trump officially swears in new Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette, the department’s former deputy secretary.
- The University of Arkansas agrees to pay new Razorbacks head coach Sam Pittman $15 million over the next five years.
- Today through Friday, Antioch Baptist Church in Conway will present Bethlehem Revisited, a historic recreation of the biblical town.
- December 11, 1936: Edward VIII, King of Great Britain announces he will abdicate the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
- December 11, 1946: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is founded.
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