KARK reports a Labor Department announcement that Hewlett Packard has agreed to pay $750,000 to about 500 people to settle a complaint that it discriminated against minorities in hiring for inside sales jobs at its operation in Conway from 2008 to 2010.
As readers noted yesterday, Facebook has news — and an outpouring of sadness — of the death Wednesday of Robert Loyd, a pivotal figure in Central Arkansas in the struggle for equal rights for LGBT people.
Conway police say they sent underage informants into restaurants selling alcohol in the city and nine places were cited for serving despite lack of proper ID. Fines can range from $200 to $500.
Here's the open line, some news and comment via video and a note about school choice and desegregation and another big round of job cuts by Hewlett Packard, whose farflung operations include an installation in Conway.
There's no feud like a good church feud. A long-running struggle for control of the Salem Missionary Baptist Church in Conway led to the arrest Sunday of a minister who refused to leave the premises.