Senator: Springdale Police Chief Should Be Fired Over Child Sex-Crime Report … SPRINGDALE (KFSM) - A state senator from Northwest Arkansas is calling for the Springdale police chief to be fired over the recent release of a 2006 police report detailing accusations that Josh Duggar as a teenager molested five underage girls.

Twitter Suspends Troll Chuck Johnson — Are Its New Guidelines Actually Working?  —  Notorious Twitter troll Chuck Johnson was placed in time-out Sunday — at least temporarily — and it looks like the company's new policy on violent threats was the reason.  —  Twitter suspended Johnson …

Charter Near Deal for Time Warner Cable at $195 a Share  —  Charter Communications Inc. is near an agreement to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $55.1 billion in cash and stock, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  Charter will pay about $195 a share, with $100 in cash …

The Big Meh  —  Remember Douglas Adams's 1979 novel “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”?  It began with some technology snark, dismissing Earth as a planet whose life-forms “are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

SPECIAL REPORT U.S. MILITARY AND CIVILIANS ARE INCREASINGLY DIVIDED  —  Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.  —  But their son refused his parents' pleas to try college.

Fighting Pollution From Microbeads Used in Soaps and Creams  —  Stiv Wilson is not much of an exfoliator.  —  Mr. Wilson, a 42-year-old environmental advocate, lives on a sailboat, wears flip-flops and doesn't care much for personal care products like fancy creams and moisturizers.

Art Garfunkel on Paul Simon: ‘I created a monster’  —  Forty-five years after Simon & Garfunkel split up, the singer is still consumed with bitterness  —  I hear Art Garfunkel before I see him, singing to himself as he drifts across the hotel lobby in a blue T-shirt, heading for the lifts.

The 2016 political report: Walker emerges from Southern confab as GOP front-runner  —  OKLAHOMA CITY — The annual Southern Republican Leadership Conference provided a glimpse into the state of the Republican base and the presidential field.  —  The conference revealed a Republican base that is …

Student vet with PTSD suspended, labeled ‘threat’ to peers after requesting to meet with non-Muslim counselor  — Jeremy Rawls, a former active-duty Marine and senior at Mississippi College was recently suspended and labeled a threat to himself and other students after requesting to meet with a non-Muslim counselor.

Chart of the Day: America is More Liberal Than Politicians Think  —  Here's a fascinating tidbit of research.  A pair of grad students surveyed 2,000 state legislators and asked them what they thought their constituents believed on several hot button issues.