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🌱 Police investigate deadly shooting at Pine Bluff’s Cambridge Apartments
Pine Bluff, Arkansas Patch AM: a 4 min readHello Pine Bluff! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Police investigate deadly shooting at Pine Bluff’s Cambridge Apartments
- How a new $15,000 grant could reshape Pine Bluff housing
- Pine Bluff ag lending office welcomes a familiar face back
Today's riddle: What happened to the pregnant cat that ate yarn? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Tuesday: Very hot, with a high of 101 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Wednesday: Near-record temperatures, temps: high: 99, low: 73.
- Thursday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 96 and low of 72 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Man Killed in Shooting at Pine Bluff Apartment Complex – [your]NEWS (yournews.com) — Pine Bluff police are investigating a deadly shooting at Cambridge Apartments on Old Warren Road after a man was found fatally wounded near the pool early Sunday. A suspect was arrested nearby at Camelot Apartments, and detectives are still determining charges while asking anyone with information to contact the Pine Bluff Police Department. 
• Pine Bluff Nonprofit Awarded Grant to Boost Affordable Housing and Construction Training (deltaplexnews.com) — A Pine Bluff nonprofit, WE Center WE Build, has received a $15,000 grant to expand its affordable housing and construction training work in the city, including a 13-home project in Ward 3 and a growing home repair program. The funding helps sustain operations that give local residents hands-on construction skills while improving neighborhood housing and supporting broader revitalization efforts across Pine Bluff.
• First Community Bank, USAble Life, Conway Corp. Announce Promotions (Movers & Shakers) (arkansasbusiness.com) — One of this week’s statewide business promotions includes Buck Horton rejoining AgHeritage Farm Credit Services as an ag lending officer in the company’s Pine Bluff office. The broader roundup highlights hires and promotions across Arkansas, but this move specifically affects local agricultural lending services available to Pine Bluff-area farmers and agribusinesses.
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🗞 Nearby News
Bryant
- Football Recap: Stuttgart Piles Up the Points Against Malvern (maxpreps.com)
Little Rock
- State Championship Horse Show draws equestrians young and old to Little Rock (arkansasonline.com)
- Little Rock Startup DrawSort Wants to End the ‘Invisible Cost' of Engineering Drawings (arkansasbusiness.com)
- Southern Tail Brewing book drive to benefit children in Arkansas and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (thv11.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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