Kelly P. Kissel, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - In this June 30, 2014, file photo, customers walk to a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City. Federal prosecutors say Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a 3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the government alleges were intentionally mislabled. Prosecutors filed a civil complaint in New York on Wednesday, July 5, 2017, in which Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby consented to the fine and forfeiture of thousands of tablets and bricks written in cuneiform, one of the earliest systems of writing, as well as other artifacts that prosecutors say were shipped without proper documentation. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Hobby Lobby takes heat over artifacts scandal

by Kelly P. Kissel Associated PressJuly 6, 2017

Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy.The Oklahoma…

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Rapper held on unrelated charges after Little Rock shooting

by Sean Murphy Associated Press, and Kelly P. Kissel Associated PressJuly 2, 2017

In this Thursday, June 1, 2017, photo, customers shop at a Walmart store in Hialeah Gardens, Fla. Hundreds of inventors are auditioning their wares for Walmart, hopeful the world’s largest retailer will consider their products the next big thing and stock them on shelves in nearly 4,700 brick-and-mortar stores. They’ve already been promised spots on the company’s online portals as it battles Amazon for billions of dollars in revenue. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Walmart seeks new products amid online battle with Amazon

by Kelly P. Kissel Associated PressJune 28, 2017

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death-row inmate Kenneth Williams. Arkansas wrapped up an aggressive execution schedule Thursday, April 27, 2017, putting to death its fourth inmate in eight days. Williams, 38, received a lethal injection Thursday night at the Cummins Unit prison at Varner for the death of a former deputy warden killed after Williams escaped from prison in 1999. (Arkansas Department of Correction via AP, File)

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Arkansas governor dismisses calls for full execution probe

by Kelly P. Kissel Associated Press, and Andrew DeMillo Associated PressApril 28, 2017

In this Monday evening, April 17, 2017 photo, the sun sets behind clouds over an Arkansas State Police command post outside the Varner Unit of the Arkansas Department of Correction near Varner, Ark. As state officials prepare to carry out a double execution Thursday ahead of a drug expiration deadline and despite the setback the U.S. Supreme Court delivered late Monday, lawyers for those condemned men look to be taking a different approach: claiming the prisoners are actually innocent. (Stephen B. Thornton/The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

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Arkansas set to conduct 1st execution since 2005

by Kelly P. Kissel Associated Press, and Sean Murphy Associated PressApril 21, 2017

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Hobby Lobby takes heat over artifacts scandal

Rapper held on unrelated charges after Little Rock shooting

Walmart seeks new products amid online battle with Amazon

Arkansas governor dismisses calls for full execution probe

Arkansas set to conduct 1st execution since 2005

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