In Northside, members of Keep Cincinnati Beautiful collaborated with neighborhood groups to dress up blighted buildings, installing hand-painted panels on boarded-up properties. Throughout the day, volunteers fanned out to plant, prune, hammer, paint, demolish and rebuild numerous projects that otherwise would go undone. At least 650 volunteers from 17 communities offered their services and time as part of Make a Difference Day, an annual event launched nationally in 1992 by USA Weekend...

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Dawn Creekmore successfully guided her bill to allow Arkansans to "freeze" their credit reports to thwart identity theft through the Legislature this year, only to have Gov. Bill Halter's campaign to put a state lottery proposal on the 2008 ballot announced Tuesday it has hired a national firm to help gather the signatures necessary to get the measure before voters next year. Mike Beebe declared two Arkansas counties state disaster areas Friday due to damage from storms that struck the...