• Arkansas-based fast food restaurant Slim Chickens will open its 100th store in Little Rock this Wednesday.
  • Job site of the new Bank OZK headquarters on Highway 10 was robbed early this morning.

 

  • A national poll sponsored by NPR/PBS finds that 24 percent of Democrats and left-leaning independents favor a Biden presidency, 22 percent lean toward Bernie Sanders and 17 percent are pro-Elizabeth Warren.
  • The Center for Disease Control published a new study on obesity rates. According to the report, they are rising; one in five kids and two in five adults are obese.

 

  • Arkansas State wide receiver Omar Bayless became the A-State player since 1987 to make the All-American football team.
  • This Friday, The Auditorium in Eureka Springs will host a Home for the Holidays Concert, featuring local singers. All contributions will go toward the Flint Street Food Bank.

 

  • December 16, 1773: The Boston Tea Party occurs, where patriot Sons of Liberty group threw British tea shipments into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act.
  • December 16, 1944: Nazi regime lauches counteroffensive in response to D-Day, beginning the Battle of the Bulge.

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