Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Tuesday tip-off
The athletic director for the Springdale School District was arrested Saturday in connection with driving while intoxicated. Farmington police stopped Annette M. Scogin, 38, about early Saturday morning on Arkansas 170 for crossing left of the center line, according to Farmington Police records.
State senators were sharply divided over support of school funding recommendations Monday but said agreement was possible by a Thursday deadline, a survey of lawmakers by the Arkansas News Bureau showed. Of 28 senators contacted in person or by telephone Monday, just under half of the 35-member body said they opposed recommendations by the House and Senate education committees to increase school funding by $138 million.
The Conway City Council will consider an ordinance declaring a moratorium on building permits for residentially zoned properties in certain areas at its’ meeting this evening. Proponents wish to protect the character of old Conway neighborhoods.
Overall, sales of the 42 firms on the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s list of Top Grossing Real Estate Agents total $3.7 billion in 2005, which is a 34.6 percent increase from sales of $2.7 billion in 2004.
A Memphis company that has an aircraft dismantling business in Walnut Ridge and a warehouse operation in Pocahontas announced that it will expand its Pocahontas operation and create an additional 40 jobs within the next 12 to 18 months.
The National Association of Securities Dealers incorrectly informed almost 1,900 takers of a securities license test that they failed the test when they actually passed it, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Little Rock. The error caused some people to be fired and kept some from getting a job with an investment firm.
The average University of Arkansas student will pay $300.30 more next year in tuition and basic fees if the Board of Trustees approves proposed hikes Friday.
Shelby County, Tennessee is asking Congress for $2 million to create an earthquake observatory around the New Madrid Fault, which runs from Illinois to Arkansas. The proposed Earthquake Fault Observatory for the Central United States (EFOCUS) would employ sensor-equipped bore holes drilled thousands of feet into the Earth. It would give scientists their first-ever up-close assessment of the faults that continue to generate quakes in the New Madrid zone.
Danny Sanders, the former chief narcotics investigator for the Ashley County sheriff ’s office, who pleaded no contest last year to three misdemeanor counts of false swearing, has filed as a candidate for sheriff. But 10th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Thomas Deen says Sanders is ineligible to hold office because false swearing is an “infamous” crime.
Although Weidner no longer has a functioning police department, the office formerly used by the police was burglarized over the weekend. Thieves got nothing there, but did manage to rip off some computer equipment from City Hall.
State senators were sharply divided over support of school funding recommendations Monday but said agreement was possible by a Thursday deadline, a survey of lawmakers by the Arkansas News Bureau showed. Of 28 senators contacted in person or by telephone Monday, just under half of the 35-member body said they opposed recommendations by the House and Senate education committees to increase school funding by $138 million.
The Conway City Council will consider an ordinance declaring a moratorium on building permits for residentially zoned properties in certain areas at its’ meeting this evening. Proponents wish to protect the character of old Conway neighborhoods.
Overall, sales of the 42 firms on the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal’s list of Top Grossing Real Estate Agents total $3.7 billion in 2005, which is a 34.6 percent increase from sales of $2.7 billion in 2004.
A Memphis company that has an aircraft dismantling business in Walnut Ridge and a warehouse operation in Pocahontas announced that it will expand its Pocahontas operation and create an additional 40 jobs within the next 12 to 18 months.
The National Association of Securities Dealers incorrectly informed almost 1,900 takers of a securities license test that they failed the test when they actually passed it, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court in Little Rock. The error caused some people to be fired and kept some from getting a job with an investment firm.
The average University of Arkansas student will pay $300.30 more next year in tuition and basic fees if the Board of Trustees approves proposed hikes Friday.
Shelby County, Tennessee is asking Congress for $2 million to create an earthquake observatory around the New Madrid Fault, which runs from Illinois to Arkansas. The proposed Earthquake Fault Observatory for the Central United States (EFOCUS) would employ sensor-equipped bore holes drilled thousands of feet into the Earth. It would give scientists their first-ever up-close assessment of the faults that continue to generate quakes in the New Madrid zone.
Danny Sanders, the former chief narcotics investigator for the Ashley County sheriff ’s office, who pleaded no contest last year to three misdemeanor counts of false swearing, has filed as a candidate for sheriff. But 10th Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Thomas Deen says Sanders is ineligible to hold office because false swearing is an “infamous” crime.
Although Weidner no longer has a functioning police department, the office formerly used by the police was burglarized over the weekend. Thieves got nothing there, but did manage to rip off some computer equipment from City Hall.
