Monday, November 28, 2005
Monday Morning Highlights
A brief summary ...
Thousands of Arkansans are without electricity and communities statewide are cleaning up after a major line of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes passed through. One motorist died on I-40 and there were other injuries and significant property damage.
Eric Nance will be executed at Cummins Prison tonight. Nance was convicted in Hot Spring County and sentenced to death in the 1993 murder of a 18-year-old Julie Heath. The teenager disappeared Oct. 11, 1993, and her car was found along U.S. 270. Her throat had been slashed with a box cutter.
Roby Brock reports in today’s Morning News of Northwest Arkansas how General Motors Corp. announcement that it will eliminate 30,000 jobs and close as many as 12 North American plants by 2008 could have a devastating impact on Arkansas' business climate. Several Arkansas companies do significant business with GM, ranging from trucking companies to manufacturing concerns, not to mention auto dealerships affiliated with the General Motors name.
Sate lawmakers are questioning an arrangement that has both an “outgoing director” and an “interim director” at the helm of the state Department of Emergency Management.
With a 14-foot drop in the level of Cedar Lake this year, the Perryville Water Department is down to its last 6 feet of accessible water and studying stopgap solutions to maintain service for its roughly 10,000 customers, Mayor James McElroy said before Sunday night’s storms.
Forth Smith City Administrator Bill Harding was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated Sunday morning after he hit a parked car twice, then left the scene of the accident.
Beginning today, Pine Bluff residents in three areas will see the return of police officers on bicycles, part of a strategy to reduce crime in the city.
Rapid growth in northwest Arkansas has prompted preservationists to buy land around Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, and now more than 700 added acres of the Civil War site have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The park is the site of the Battle of Prairie Grove, where the Confederate Army fought the Union Army on Dec. 7, 1862, leaving 2,700 dead that day.
Arkansas State football fans can start making plans to spend part of the Christmas season in Cajun country. The Indians are going bowling. ASU did its part to earn a share of the Sun Belt Conference championship and the league’s New Orleans Bowl berth by beating North Texas 31-24. The game will be Dec. 20 in Lafayette.
Arkansas Razorback head coach Houston Nutt and Athletic Director Frank Broyles continue to evaluate “the program” “from A to Z.”
Thousands of Arkansans are without electricity and communities statewide are cleaning up after a major line of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes passed through. One motorist died on I-40 and there were other injuries and significant property damage.
Eric Nance will be executed at Cummins Prison tonight. Nance was convicted in Hot Spring County and sentenced to death in the 1993 murder of a 18-year-old Julie Heath. The teenager disappeared Oct. 11, 1993, and her car was found along U.S. 270. Her throat had been slashed with a box cutter.
Roby Brock reports in today’s Morning News of Northwest Arkansas how General Motors Corp. announcement that it will eliminate 30,000 jobs and close as many as 12 North American plants by 2008 could have a devastating impact on Arkansas' business climate. Several Arkansas companies do significant business with GM, ranging from trucking companies to manufacturing concerns, not to mention auto dealerships affiliated with the General Motors name.
Sate lawmakers are questioning an arrangement that has both an “outgoing director” and an “interim director” at the helm of the state Department of Emergency Management.
With a 14-foot drop in the level of Cedar Lake this year, the Perryville Water Department is down to its last 6 feet of accessible water and studying stopgap solutions to maintain service for its roughly 10,000 customers, Mayor James McElroy said before Sunday night’s storms.
Forth Smith City Administrator Bill Harding was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated Sunday morning after he hit a parked car twice, then left the scene of the accident.
Beginning today, Pine Bluff residents in three areas will see the return of police officers on bicycles, part of a strategy to reduce crime in the city.
Rapid growth in northwest Arkansas has prompted preservationists to buy land around Prairie Grove Battlefield State Park, and now more than 700 added acres of the Civil War site have been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The park is the site of the Battle of Prairie Grove, where the Confederate Army fought the Union Army on Dec. 7, 1862, leaving 2,700 dead that day.
Arkansas State football fans can start making plans to spend part of the Christmas season in Cajun country. The Indians are going bowling. ASU did its part to earn a share of the Sun Belt Conference championship and the league’s New Orleans Bowl berth by beating North Texas 31-24. The game will be Dec. 20 in Lafayette.
Arkansas Razorback head coach Houston Nutt and Athletic Director Frank Broyles continue to evaluate “the program” “from A to Z.”
