The Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition (OVGE) debuted in Tulsa in 2003 and it’s set coming again to that city on June 16.
The event, as always, will center on vintage video games, classic computers, standup arcade consoles from the golden age of arcades and even a pinball machine or two. Jesse Hardesty started the OVGE after noticing there were plenty of classic game expos on the East and West coasts and in Las Vegas, but few such gatherings in the southwest. Rather than waiting for someone to start an event dedicated …

Goodwill of Arkansas is entering everyone making a donation by April 15 into a drawing for a chance to win a $250 house cleaning.
That’s right — clean out those closets, grab some unused items from your garage and generally come up with some quality items to donate to the charity and you might win a $250 house cleaning from Molly Maid of Greater Little Rock. The free house cleaning is the main prize, but Goodwill will award a $100 gift certificate to the second place winner and a $50 gift …

The annual Benton Kite Festival is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 14 at Watts Field in Benton.
Watts Field is the former Saline County Airport and is located off I-30 exit 116 on Airlane Drive near the Saline County Fairgrounds.
The event will feature professional kite flyers demonstrating their bag of tricks and perhaps handing out some advice, concessions and free water. Attendees can bring their own kites or use one of the 500 free ones given out on a first come, first served basis. For more information …

Donnie Pitchford — the creator of our weekly Lum and Abner comic strip — will appear on Sunday, April 8 on “Same Time, Same Station,” an Internet broadcast.
Pitchford will discuss a bit about the history of Lum and Abner (Arkansas’ own old time radio stars), the National Lum and Abner Society (NLAS), how the comic strip came into being through his partnership with First Arkansas News and a host of other subjects. Pitchford, by the way, is the president of NLAS and that group of fans/preservationists is always looking for …

If your home was tangled up in the foreclosure process in 2010 or 2011, you may be entitled to an independent review which will determine if you are entitled to compensation.
The clock is ticking on that process, however – people wanting a review must request one by the end of July.
In essence, the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve investigated 14 major mortgage servicers accused of engaging in unfair foreclosure practices. The end result …

Many people pinch their pennies by doing things such as using coupons and not leaving their water running for very long. But one thing that can save you a lot of money is improving your credit. Better credit means a better credit score, and a better credit score means better interest rates on your credit cards, home and car loans, which can save you literally thousands of dollars.
The majority of your credit score – 65 percent, in fact – is based on your payment history and how much debt you …

The numbers are in and homes sales in February were up compared to the same month a year ago in three of the four largest housing markets in Arkansas.
According to the February housing market report released by The City Wire in Fort Smith, the combined number of homes sales in central Arkansas, the Fort Smith area, the Jonesboro area and northwest Arkansas totaled 1,169 in February — up 12.4 percent from 1,040 sales in the same month a year ago. The average sales price in February for those areas was …

It’s a tale we’ve heard far too many times – a home owner gets sick or loses a job, falls behind on his mortgage payments and is looking at the very real prospect of losing a home through foreclosure.
When a home is foreclosed upon, no one involved in the process wins. The home owner loses the house he or she had planned on staying in for years and will have to deal with a bad credit score for a few years. The lender always loses money when a home is …

Buried amongst all the talk of the new Apple iPad this week was news of the release of iOS 5.1.
What is significant about the new Apple operating system? Owners of the iPhone 4S who are AT&T customers and downloaded the update may have noticed the “3G” icon on their phones had been replaced with a “4G” icon. That’s right — the new update sure appears to turn the iPhone 4S into one that’s cruising the ultra-fast, next generation 4G data network.
There are a couple of questions surrounding the update — …

The estate of Minnie Valentine — a woman who died after allegedly receiving inadequate care at a Little Rock nursing home in 2004 — won a $10 million verdict in a negligence suit filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court against the nursing home, entities involved in running it and the head of the facility.
In a Feb. 23 Arkansas Supreme Court decision, Donald B. Bedell was dismissed from the case on appeal. Bedell was either president or a member of the board of directors for Arkansas Health Care Management, Care Options …