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Following are recent news brief items from the Fort Smith metro.

TOPPSS Award
Mark Minnick, a psychology teacher at Southside High School in Fort Smith, has been named a recipient of a 2026 American Psychological Associaton’s TOPSS Charles T. Blair-Broeker Excellence in Teaching Award by APA’s Committee of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary School...


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The Arkansas Tech University Board of Trustees recently approved a balanced 2026-27 fiscal year operating budget for the Russellville-based university. A tuition increase also was approved.

The $170.944 million budget includes an increase of $832,800 in state appropriation to ATU for fiscal year 2027 and a $242,246 increase in fiscal year 2027 designated state aid for ...


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If there’s something that Kha’Madri Goodwin enjoys about competing on the Northside track team, it would have to be her versatility.

“I have done a little of everything,” Goodwin said. “I’ve been a part of every relay you can think of, and I used to do both long jump and high jump. My freshman year, I did the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, 4×100 relay, 4×200 relay and t...


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Two Walmart executives who have accumulated more than four decades of experience are leaving the company, according to internal memos sent Friday (May 22) and first reported by The Wall Street Journal. It is the first major executive shake-up since John Furner was named Walmart CEO in February.

Tom Ward, executive vice president, is leaving his post as chief operating ...


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The Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas has received $10 million from the Dillard family to support a $40 million campaign to build a 100,000-square-foot academic building. The UA Board of Trustees approved Thursday (May 21) naming the building in honor...


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