Monday, April 10, 2006
Monday Mayhem
The General Assembly has ended its' weeklong special session after increasing the per-pupil spending on public schools, passing a ban on smoking in most public places, enhancing penalties on child sex offenders, and prohibiting protests at funerals.
A bill aimed at keeping tiny Paron High School open died Friday in the Senate Education Committee after its chairman said the measure would "threaten an absolute meltdown" of compliance with the state Supreme Court in the landmark Lake View school-funding case.
Immigrants and their advocates in New York and 50 other cities, including Little Rock, are set to flood streets around the nation today in a massive show of support for sweeping immigration reform.
U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a possible Republican candidate for president in 2008, planned to campaign for GOP gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson on Monday at three different events in Arkansas.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will hold its first of two public hearings on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s industrial bank application today and tomorrow in Washington, D. C. Wal-Mart has applied to open an industrial loan company to handle electronic payment processing. The bank would be headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Roby Brock reports in the Stephens Media Group on a statewide trend. Last October, Congress implemented a series of changes to bankruptcy laws that made it more difficult for individuals to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. First quarter statistics show that state bankruptcies fell dramatically from the previous year. Arkansas has seen a 73 percent decline in bankruptcies from the same quarter one year ago
Entergy Arkansas accused utility regulators Friday of violating state law by blocking a 9.9 percent rate increase that would have taken effect April 1, asking them to reconsider.
Union Pacific Railroad is planning to add another 2,500 to 3,000 employees to its nationwide payroll this year, including several in Pine Bluff, according to Mark Davis, company spokesman. Union Pacific has 675 employees in Pine Bluff and an annual payroll of $39.6 million.
Seventeen-year-old LaKeisha Brown died last April because the medical staff and supervisors at Alexander Youth Services Center ignored her pleas for help, a wrongful death lawsuit filed Friday by the girlÂs mother claims.
Two men were killed and two injured early Sunday in a gunfight near a building east of Mena where about 500 marijuana plants were being grown. The gunfight appears to have started when four men from Henryetta, Okla., went to the property in an attempt to rob the owner, Bradley Webster, who lives in a house on the property.
Three men arrested and charged last week with the capital murder of a Morrilton man in Pope County late last month are being held in the county jail without the possibility of bond. According to Jeff Chandler, chief deputy prosecutor for the Fifth Judicial District, the state of Arkansas is not required to set a bond amount for those charged in capital murder cases.
Three Monticello men are facing felony charges for reportedly stealing more than 6,600 pounds of copper wire from the old Burlington Industries facility.
The Jonesboro Sun says sunshine and warming temperatures have been just the encouragement needed for area farmers to get out into their fields. The smell of diesel fuel and fresh dirt can be detected across the countryside as Northeast Arkansas farmers plant this year's rice crop, cotton, soybean and other crops.
One of the longest bridges over the nation's mightiest river is expected to reach a milestone this week when workers close the gap in the main deck with four 30-ton concrete panels. The $230 million, four-lane bridge over the Mississippi River, just south of Lake Village and across from Greenville, Miss., is expected to open in 2009.
Today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock will open a kosher catering kitchen which will have the capacity to prepare up to one thousand meals at one sittin
A bill aimed at keeping tiny Paron High School open died Friday in the Senate Education Committee after its chairman said the measure would "threaten an absolute meltdown" of compliance with the state Supreme Court in the landmark Lake View school-funding case.
Immigrants and their advocates in New York and 50 other cities, including Little Rock, are set to flood streets around the nation today in a massive show of support for sweeping immigration reform.
U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a possible Republican candidate for president in 2008, planned to campaign for GOP gubernatorial hopeful Asa Hutchinson on Monday at three different events in Arkansas.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. will hold its first of two public hearings on Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s industrial bank application today and tomorrow in Washington, D. C. Wal-Mart has applied to open an industrial loan company to handle electronic payment processing. The bank would be headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Roby Brock reports in the Stephens Media Group on a statewide trend. Last October, Congress implemented a series of changes to bankruptcy laws that made it more difficult for individuals to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. First quarter statistics show that state bankruptcies fell dramatically from the previous year. Arkansas has seen a 73 percent decline in bankruptcies from the same quarter one year ago
Entergy Arkansas accused utility regulators Friday of violating state law by blocking a 9.9 percent rate increase that would have taken effect April 1, asking them to reconsider.
Union Pacific Railroad is planning to add another 2,500 to 3,000 employees to its nationwide payroll this year, including several in Pine Bluff, according to Mark Davis, company spokesman. Union Pacific has 675 employees in Pine Bluff and an annual payroll of $39.6 million.
Seventeen-year-old LaKeisha Brown died last April because the medical staff and supervisors at Alexander Youth Services Center ignored her pleas for help, a wrongful death lawsuit filed Friday by the girlÂs mother claims.
Two men were killed and two injured early Sunday in a gunfight near a building east of Mena where about 500 marijuana plants were being grown. The gunfight appears to have started when four men from Henryetta, Okla., went to the property in an attempt to rob the owner, Bradley Webster, who lives in a house on the property.
Three men arrested and charged last week with the capital murder of a Morrilton man in Pope County late last month are being held in the county jail without the possibility of bond. According to Jeff Chandler, chief deputy prosecutor for the Fifth Judicial District, the state of Arkansas is not required to set a bond amount for those charged in capital murder cases.
Three Monticello men are facing felony charges for reportedly stealing more than 6,600 pounds of copper wire from the old Burlington Industries facility.
The Jonesboro Sun says sunshine and warming temperatures have been just the encouragement needed for area farmers to get out into their fields. The smell of diesel fuel and fresh dirt can be detected across the countryside as Northeast Arkansas farmers plant this year's rice crop, cotton, soybean and other crops.
One of the longest bridges over the nation's mightiest river is expected to reach a milestone this week when workers close the gap in the main deck with four 30-ton concrete panels. The $230 million, four-lane bridge over the Mississippi River, just south of Lake Village and across from Greenville, Miss., is expected to open in 2009.
Today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock will open a kosher catering kitchen which will have the capacity to prepare up to one thousand meals at one sittin
