Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Tuesday dawning
Those FEMA trailers stored at the Hope airport may be hazardous to your health. Air quality tests of 44 FEMA trailers conducted by the Sierra Club since April have found formaldehyde concentrations as high as 0.34 parts per million – a level nearly equal to what a professional embalmer would be exposed to on the job, according to one study of the chemical’s workplace effects.
Providing psychiatric care to Arkansas’ 13,000 prison inmates will no longer be a state job after the Board of Corrections decided Monday to hire a private medical contractor to staff the 5 budgeted positions. The unanimous vote authorizes an expansion of the department’s $43 million contract with Correctional Medical Services Inc. by $1,385,000.
Fox 16 reports Arkansas Police are involved in a multi-state search for an Indiana man police believe attacked four people, killing three of them. He was reportedly last seen in Jonesboro. The sighting of the suspect took place last week. He’s identified as Nicolas Harbison. Indiana State Police say Harbison is traveling with his girlfriend.
Atkins school district travel reimbursements were inappropriate, according to a state audit, which was completed by the Arkansas Legislative Joint Auditing Committee It looked at travel reimbursements to Rebecca Sheets, elementary school principal, and Al Davidson, former superintendent. Sheets was recently rehired as elementary principal.
Two former Magazine school district teachers’ aides are awaiting trial on charges that they had sex last March with two minor high school students. Misty Dawn Siddons of Booneville and Angela Dawn Ryan of Magazine appeared Monday in Logan County Circuit Court where they entered pleas of not guilty to first degree sexual assault. They are accused of having illegal relationships with 17 year old male students.
Arkansas Medicaid officials said Monday they hope that by early 2007 low-income people without prescription drug coverage can benefit from drug discounts through a new state program. By next month, the state will start a public relations campaign to make people aware of the Arkansas RX program. The more people who sign up, the greater the likelihood of larger discounts.
Poultry companies named in a lawsuit alleging that arsenic in chicken litter causes cancer have asked a judge to bar all references to a monolithic "poultry industry" during an upcoming trial. That motion, along with several others, was filed in advance of an August 3 hearing in the case.
A group of plaintiffs argued in Texarkana federal court Monday that Google has not exercised reasonable care to prevent “click fraud” and has misrepresented efforts to stop swindlers from repeatedly clicking Web site links to drive up advertising costs. Google has proposed a $90 million settlement offer. A Texarkana company - Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles - filed the lawsuit, which Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffin certified as a class action.
A public bus route through western Washington County will begin Aug. 1 on a trial basis, Ozark Regional Transit officials announced Monday. A one-month pilot program will schedule a free route between Lincoln and Fayetteville, with stops in Prairie Grove and Farmington, along the U.S. 62 corridor.
The latest extreme water sport known as kite tubing is now illegal on lakes Hamilton and Catherine. The ordinance prohibits the use of “airborne towables,” defined as towable recreational devices solely designed to go airborne with a rider on the device while being towed by a boat.
NBA veteran Corless Williamson is in the final year of his multi-million dollar contract with Sacramento, and is reportedly spending the summer with Irwin Partners in Little Rock sharpening up his real estate investing skills.
KARK Channel 4 reports thousands of downloads for the application form contestants will need for the Saturday auditions for “Deal or No Deal.” The wait for a 30 second filmed audition may be as long as 10 hours at the Farris Center on the UCA Campus in Conway.
Providing psychiatric care to Arkansas’ 13,000 prison inmates will no longer be a state job after the Board of Corrections decided Monday to hire a private medical contractor to staff the 5 budgeted positions. The unanimous vote authorizes an expansion of the department’s $43 million contract with Correctional Medical Services Inc. by $1,385,000.
Fox 16 reports Arkansas Police are involved in a multi-state search for an Indiana man police believe attacked four people, killing three of them. He was reportedly last seen in Jonesboro. The sighting of the suspect took place last week. He’s identified as Nicolas Harbison. Indiana State Police say Harbison is traveling with his girlfriend.
Atkins school district travel reimbursements were inappropriate, according to a state audit, which was completed by the Arkansas Legislative Joint Auditing Committee It looked at travel reimbursements to Rebecca Sheets, elementary school principal, and Al Davidson, former superintendent. Sheets was recently rehired as elementary principal.
Two former Magazine school district teachers’ aides are awaiting trial on charges that they had sex last March with two minor high school students. Misty Dawn Siddons of Booneville and Angela Dawn Ryan of Magazine appeared Monday in Logan County Circuit Court where they entered pleas of not guilty to first degree sexual assault. They are accused of having illegal relationships with 17 year old male students.
Arkansas Medicaid officials said Monday they hope that by early 2007 low-income people without prescription drug coverage can benefit from drug discounts through a new state program. By next month, the state will start a public relations campaign to make people aware of the Arkansas RX program. The more people who sign up, the greater the likelihood of larger discounts.
Poultry companies named in a lawsuit alleging that arsenic in chicken litter causes cancer have asked a judge to bar all references to a monolithic "poultry industry" during an upcoming trial. That motion, along with several others, was filed in advance of an August 3 hearing in the case.
A group of plaintiffs argued in Texarkana federal court Monday that Google has not exercised reasonable care to prevent “click fraud” and has misrepresented efforts to stop swindlers from repeatedly clicking Web site links to drive up advertising costs. Google has proposed a $90 million settlement offer. A Texarkana company - Lane’s Gifts and Collectibles - filed the lawsuit, which Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffin certified as a class action.
A public bus route through western Washington County will begin Aug. 1 on a trial basis, Ozark Regional Transit officials announced Monday. A one-month pilot program will schedule a free route between Lincoln and Fayetteville, with stops in Prairie Grove and Farmington, along the U.S. 62 corridor.
The latest extreme water sport known as kite tubing is now illegal on lakes Hamilton and Catherine. The ordinance prohibits the use of “airborne towables,” defined as towable recreational devices solely designed to go airborne with a rider on the device while being towed by a boat.
NBA veteran Corless Williamson is in the final year of his multi-million dollar contract with Sacramento, and is reportedly spending the summer with Irwin Partners in Little Rock sharpening up his real estate investing skills.
KARK Channel 4 reports thousands of downloads for the application form contestants will need for the Saturday auditions for “Deal or No Deal.” The wait for a 30 second filmed audition may be as long as 10 hours at the Farris Center on the UCA Campus in Conway.
