Monday, March 13, 2006
Monday, better late than never
A heavy thunderstorm brought large hail, strong straight wind and intense lightning, produced a twister that touched down near Gentry at 9:50 Sunday evening. The storm then sped across the county at nearly 45 mph, damaging homes and buildings in Centerton, Bentonville, Little Flock and Avoca before moving off through Carroll County and into Missouri. A line of heavy storms crossed Arkansas early this morning.
Arkansas is in the NCAA Tournament as the No. 8 seed in the Oakland Region and will play its opening round game Friday in Dallas against No. 9-seeded Bucknell.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports that a dispatcher with the Washington County Sheriff's Office raised doubts that the subject state troopers were seeking out was Adam Lee Leadford just minutes earlier while four deputies were enroute. Officers fatally shot Erin Hamley, a mentally retarded man with cerebral palsy.
A Washington County deputy prosecutor says he doubts his department will find fault with the shooting of prison escapee Adam Leadford by a Springdale police officer Tuesday at the end of a police chase.
The Democrat-Gazette reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture lent former U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson $1.2 million in October 2000 even though Robinson had defaulted a year earlier on a promissory note of more than $500,000, records in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas show. Robinson is now asking — as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan — that the government give him nearly 20 years to repay just a portion of the more than $1. 5 million he owes. This despite the fact that documents show he failed to fully disclose key financial information — past-due indebtedness to a fertilizer manufacturer — when he applied for the federal loan.
A report in Sunday’s Democrat-Gazette shows that records in the Faulkner County treasurer’s office indicate that sheriff’s office employees have not reimbursed any of the $15,324 that a state audit, released in November, said they owed the county because the money was spent improperly. The audit report also said an additional $18,762 in credit-card charges by Sheriff Marty Montgomery and other employees should either be documented as having been used for official business or be paid back.
Greenwood head football coach Rick Jones asked the school board via letter Thursday night to remove the provision in next year’s contract to pay for his family health insurance.
The Lonoke County prosecutor filed more felony charges Friday against the former Lonoke police chief and his wife. Jay Campbell now faces burglary, drug and theft-by-receiving charges in addition to similar charges filed against him last month. Both sets of charges are based on a state police investigation into allegations of drug use, illicit sex and abuse of a state inmate program.
Two tax preparers were indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of preparing false tax returns while working for the H & R Block and Jackson-Hewitt firms.
he $17.5 million Heifer International headquarters will be dedicated in Little Rock this week, becoming the latest development in an area that a decade ago was an abandoned industrial park with contaminated soil and water. BY JILL ZEMAN
Ninth-graders at Catholic High School in Little Rock will spend about 10 minutes this month answering a series of questions that administrators hope will identify students considering suicide.
The Fountain Lake School Board asked its superintendent Thursday night to gather more information about a possible takeover of the former Paron School District.
Arkansas is in the NCAA Tournament as the No. 8 seed in the Oakland Region and will play its opening round game Friday in Dallas against No. 9-seeded Bucknell.
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports that a dispatcher with the Washington County Sheriff's Office raised doubts that the subject state troopers were seeking out was Adam Lee Leadford just minutes earlier while four deputies were enroute. Officers fatally shot Erin Hamley, a mentally retarded man with cerebral palsy.
A Washington County deputy prosecutor says he doubts his department will find fault with the shooting of prison escapee Adam Leadford by a Springdale police officer Tuesday at the end of a police chase.
The Democrat-Gazette reports that the U.S. Department of Agriculture lent former U.S. Rep. Tommy Robinson $1.2 million in October 2000 even though Robinson had defaulted a year earlier on a promissory note of more than $500,000, records in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas show. Robinson is now asking — as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan — that the government give him nearly 20 years to repay just a portion of the more than $1. 5 million he owes. This despite the fact that documents show he failed to fully disclose key financial information — past-due indebtedness to a fertilizer manufacturer — when he applied for the federal loan.
A report in Sunday’s Democrat-Gazette shows that records in the Faulkner County treasurer’s office indicate that sheriff’s office employees have not reimbursed any of the $15,324 that a state audit, released in November, said they owed the county because the money was spent improperly. The audit report also said an additional $18,762 in credit-card charges by Sheriff Marty Montgomery and other employees should either be documented as having been used for official business or be paid back.
Greenwood head football coach Rick Jones asked the school board via letter Thursday night to remove the provision in next year’s contract to pay for his family health insurance.
The Lonoke County prosecutor filed more felony charges Friday against the former Lonoke police chief and his wife. Jay Campbell now faces burglary, drug and theft-by-receiving charges in addition to similar charges filed against him last month. Both sets of charges are based on a state police investigation into allegations of drug use, illicit sex and abuse of a state inmate program.
Two tax preparers were indicted by a federal grand jury, accused of preparing false tax returns while working for the H & R Block and Jackson-Hewitt firms.
he $17.5 million Heifer International headquarters will be dedicated in Little Rock this week, becoming the latest development in an area that a decade ago was an abandoned industrial park with contaminated soil and water. BY JILL ZEMAN
Ninth-graders at Catholic High School in Little Rock will spend about 10 minutes this month answering a series of questions that administrators hope will identify students considering suicide.
The Fountain Lake School Board asked its superintendent Thursday night to gather more information about a possible takeover of the former Paron School District.
