Friday, March 10, 2006
Friday Follies
SEC Tournament, Arkansas 80 – Georgia 67
Four Walton family members are on the list of Forbes billionaires inside the Top 25 wealthiest people on earth. This does not include Alice Walton, who lives in Texas.
Authorities promise a timely and thorough investigation into the fatal Arkansas State Police shooting of a disabled Springdale man, but do not say how long the probe would take.
Bill Halter has quit the race for Democratic nomination for Governor and will run for Lieutenant Governor instead.
State Education Commissioner Ken James said Thursday that his department was drafting bills in anticipation of a special session on education.
A vote by the Greenwood School Board in January to grant full health insurance coverage to the head football coach and his family in part contributed to the state House and Senate education committees recommending that benefits and employer contributions for benefits for all employees be made equal. The two committees met Tuesday to address several issues including health insurance benefits for public school employees.
The federal trial of a Fayetteville man accused of trying to join the Palestinian holy war against Israel is on hold while the sides negotiate a plea bargain, according to court documents.
Today’s Democrat-Gazette reports that a state audit report detailing $3,770 in what it says were undocumented and unauthorized cash transactions made from two “cash funds” maintained by the Lonoke Police Department will be referred to the local prosecutor. The action action followed the arrests last month of former Lonoke Police Chief Jay Campbell, his wife, two bail bondsmen and Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett on multiple charges involving drugs, theft and abuse of the Act 309 state inmate-work program.
Allowing jurors to question witnesses in the murder trial of Michael MacKool didn't prejudice his defense, but the Arkansas Supreme Court expressed enough concern about the practice to order two court-appointed committees to review the issue.
A woman who has had no contact with the father of her baby since the night the child was conceived does not have to notify the father or receive his consent before putting the baby up for adoption, the Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday.
Maintenance workers at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff have been busy removing graffiti from several buildings on campus, while police have begun an investigation into the incident.
The Democrat-Gazette has this one. Landowners contend that rehabilitation plans are “way too little, way too late,” but a federal judge on Thursday authorized the manager of University Mall in Little Rock to begin some $2.75 million in repairs in an attempt to restore the deteriorating structure.
Auto parts maker Dana Corp., which includes a plant in Russellville, filed for bankruptcy protection for its U.S. operations last Friday, joining a growing list of suppliers forced to make major restructuring moves because of the slumping U.S. auto industry.
County spelling bee winners will compete Saturday in the Arkansas State Spelling Bee at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Four Walton family members are on the list of Forbes billionaires inside the Top 25 wealthiest people on earth. This does not include Alice Walton, who lives in Texas.
Authorities promise a timely and thorough investigation into the fatal Arkansas State Police shooting of a disabled Springdale man, but do not say how long the probe would take.
Bill Halter has quit the race for Democratic nomination for Governor and will run for Lieutenant Governor instead.
State Education Commissioner Ken James said Thursday that his department was drafting bills in anticipation of a special session on education.
A vote by the Greenwood School Board in January to grant full health insurance coverage to the head football coach and his family in part contributed to the state House and Senate education committees recommending that benefits and employer contributions for benefits for all employees be made equal. The two committees met Tuesday to address several issues including health insurance benefits for public school employees.
The federal trial of a Fayetteville man accused of trying to join the Palestinian holy war against Israel is on hold while the sides negotiate a plea bargain, according to court documents.
Today’s Democrat-Gazette reports that a state audit report detailing $3,770 in what it says were undocumented and unauthorized cash transactions made from two “cash funds” maintained by the Lonoke Police Department will be referred to the local prosecutor. The action action followed the arrests last month of former Lonoke Police Chief Jay Campbell, his wife, two bail bondsmen and Lonoke Mayor Thomas Privett on multiple charges involving drugs, theft and abuse of the Act 309 state inmate-work program.
Allowing jurors to question witnesses in the murder trial of Michael MacKool didn't prejudice his defense, but the Arkansas Supreme Court expressed enough concern about the practice to order two court-appointed committees to review the issue.
A woman who has had no contact with the father of her baby since the night the child was conceived does not have to notify the father or receive his consent before putting the baby up for adoption, the Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday.
Maintenance workers at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff have been busy removing graffiti from several buildings on campus, while police have begun an investigation into the incident.
The Democrat-Gazette has this one. Landowners contend that rehabilitation plans are “way too little, way too late,” but a federal judge on Thursday authorized the manager of University Mall in Little Rock to begin some $2.75 million in repairs in an attempt to restore the deteriorating structure.
Auto parts maker Dana Corp., which includes a plant in Russellville, filed for bankruptcy protection for its U.S. operations last Friday, joining a growing list of suppliers forced to make major restructuring moves because of the slumping U.S. auto industry.
County spelling bee winners will compete Saturday in the Arkansas State Spelling Bee at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
