Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Wednesday early warning
Arkansas’ United States Senators split on a proposed constitutional amendment to prohibit flag burning. Senator Mark Pryor voted against the ban, saying an amendment was unnecessary. Senator Lincoln cited letters from veterans as the reason for her support. The measure failed by a single vote, the closest such a measure has ever come.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plan to move 3,000 mobile homes out of Hope has been delayed while the agency’s staff deals with trailers it set up two years ago in hurricane-stricken areas of Florida.
Arkansas Times Blog reports on some quick and quiet scheduling in the nation’s capitol. The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a nomination hearing today on Magistrate Bobby Shepherd of El Dorado. He's been nominated to succeed Judge Buzz Arnold, who's taking senior status, on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kathleen Mosley, A 21-year-old Little Rock college student whose dead baby was found in an ice chest, told a judge Tuesday that the child was stillborn, but she didn’t explain why she never alerted authorities about the birth of her daughter. Mosley pleaded guilty to concealing a birth, a Class D felony that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, in exchange for five years of probation.
Cynthia Howell reports in the Democrat-Gazette that the Academics Plus Charter School in Maumelle appears to have met and exceeded its minimum 286-student enrollment goal Tuesday, the number school leaders said they had to have by Saturday to keep the college-preparatory school open in 2006-07.
“Many” Acxiom Corp. clients have asked to be released from their contracts if Value-Act Capital succeeds in ousting management, chief executive Charles Morgan said Tuesday in a lengthy, harshly worded letter to ValueAct’s Jeff Ubben.
The Jefferson County Election Commission will ask Prosecuting Attorney Steve Dalrymple to look into allegations that four convicted felons voted in the June 13 Democratic party runoff.
Benton County Senior Judge Tom Keith refused to recuse from a case Tuesday, and then cut three years from the prison sentence a jury recommended for a woman convicted of blinding and crippling her daughter by shaking her. Keith sentenced Darra Barritt to 12 years in prison. According to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, Clyde Ford of Lowell, a juror in the case, visited the judge afterwards expressing uneasiness with the guilty verdict.
According to the Benton Courier, Shannon Hills Alderman Robert “Bobby” Riley is facing prosecution after being arrested for theft charge and will be extradited to Kansas, where he faces additional charges for theft and forgery. Riley was arrested after police received information that he had allegedly installed an $880 alarm system in his ex-wife's house without paying for the Family First Security Systems unit.
A private sports arena planned near the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport has already attracted the attention of a minor league hockey organization, one of the venue's developers announced Tuesday. Chris Talley says the East Coast Hockey League wants to place an AA minor league team in Northwest Arkansas by fall 2008.
The Japanese Prime Minister will visit Memphis Friday with President and Mrs. Bush for lunch at the Rendezvous and an afternoon at Graceland. Folks in Marion are supposedly wondering if his visit will include a trip across the Mississippi to visit the site of a proposed auto plant.
Stephens Media Group reports former President Bill Clinton joined New Hampshire First Lady Susan Lynch to teach children about how to stay fit Tuesday, but he contradicted the pediatrician's advice about turning off the TV. After Lynch emphasized the correlation between obesity and children who watch more than four hours of television per day, Clinton repeatedly told the audience full of children to watch Nickelodeon, the children's television network he teamed up with last year for a campaign to nudge kids to eat healthy and exercise.
U.S. Rep. John Boozman has distinguished himself on a ranking in Washington. Golf Digest lists him -- alone among Arkies -- among the top 200 golf handicaps in official Washington, including top lobbyists. Republicans dominate this list, by the way. He's 95th, at 12.9 handicap, just a whisker behind Sandra Day O'Connor.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plan to move 3,000 mobile homes out of Hope has been delayed while the agency’s staff deals with trailers it set up two years ago in hurricane-stricken areas of Florida.
Arkansas Times Blog reports on some quick and quiet scheduling in the nation’s capitol. The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a nomination hearing today on Magistrate Bobby Shepherd of El Dorado. He's been nominated to succeed Judge Buzz Arnold, who's taking senior status, on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Kathleen Mosley, A 21-year-old Little Rock college student whose dead baby was found in an ice chest, told a judge Tuesday that the child was stillborn, but she didn’t explain why she never alerted authorities about the birth of her daughter. Mosley pleaded guilty to concealing a birth, a Class D felony that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, in exchange for five years of probation.
Cynthia Howell reports in the Democrat-Gazette that the Academics Plus Charter School in Maumelle appears to have met and exceeded its minimum 286-student enrollment goal Tuesday, the number school leaders said they had to have by Saturday to keep the college-preparatory school open in 2006-07.
“Many” Acxiom Corp. clients have asked to be released from their contracts if Value-Act Capital succeeds in ousting management, chief executive Charles Morgan said Tuesday in a lengthy, harshly worded letter to ValueAct’s Jeff Ubben.
The Jefferson County Election Commission will ask Prosecuting Attorney Steve Dalrymple to look into allegations that four convicted felons voted in the June 13 Democratic party runoff.
Benton County Senior Judge Tom Keith refused to recuse from a case Tuesday, and then cut three years from the prison sentence a jury recommended for a woman convicted of blinding and crippling her daughter by shaking her. Keith sentenced Darra Barritt to 12 years in prison. According to the Morning News of Northwest Arkansas, Clyde Ford of Lowell, a juror in the case, visited the judge afterwards expressing uneasiness with the guilty verdict.
According to the Benton Courier, Shannon Hills Alderman Robert “Bobby” Riley is facing prosecution after being arrested for theft charge and will be extradited to Kansas, where he faces additional charges for theft and forgery. Riley was arrested after police received information that he had allegedly installed an $880 alarm system in his ex-wife's house without paying for the Family First Security Systems unit.
A private sports arena planned near the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport has already attracted the attention of a minor league hockey organization, one of the venue's developers announced Tuesday. Chris Talley says the East Coast Hockey League wants to place an AA minor league team in Northwest Arkansas by fall 2008.
The Japanese Prime Minister will visit Memphis Friday with President and Mrs. Bush for lunch at the Rendezvous and an afternoon at Graceland. Folks in Marion are supposedly wondering if his visit will include a trip across the Mississippi to visit the site of a proposed auto plant.
Stephens Media Group reports former President Bill Clinton joined New Hampshire First Lady Susan Lynch to teach children about how to stay fit Tuesday, but he contradicted the pediatrician's advice about turning off the TV. After Lynch emphasized the correlation between obesity and children who watch more than four hours of television per day, Clinton repeatedly told the audience full of children to watch Nickelodeon, the children's television network he teamed up with last year for a campaign to nudge kids to eat healthy and exercise.
U.S. Rep. John Boozman has distinguished himself on a ranking in Washington. Golf Digest lists him -- alone among Arkies -- among the top 200 golf handicaps in official Washington, including top lobbyists. Republicans dominate this list, by the way. He's 95th, at 12.9 handicap, just a whisker behind Sandra Day O'Connor.
