Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Decision Tuesday
The price of gasoline has been dropping in Arkansas, with an average price Monday of $2.52 per gallon for a gallon of self-serve unleaded, according to the AAA.
A federal jury will begin deciding this morning whether Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was responsible for a Benton woman’s breast cancer. The jury that has listened to three weeks of testimony in a Little Rock courtroom is the first in the country to hear details of one of about 5,000 cases with similar claims pending against the New Jersey-based company.
Voters head to the polls today to decide whether to further tax themselves to help Pulaski County reopen and build more jail space.
The state body that disciplines judges will keep the public out of a preliminary hearing to determine if appeals court Judge Wendell Griffen’s speeches violated rules constraining what judges can say publicly. The public, including the news media, will be barred from attending an investigative hearing Friday, even though the accused judge requested the proceeding be open.
The state Education Department may lobby the Legislature to extend the public school year or to allow districts to start earlier in August and end earlier in the summer. The discussion arose when the Board of Education considered a waiver for Cabot Public Schools, whose junior high building was destroyed in a fire last month.
The latest financial reports on Fayetteville’s Haas Hall Academy charter school satisfied state Board of Education members who last month warned that they were losing patience with the lack of detailed data.
Organizers seeking to allow alcohol sales in Arkadelphia failed to meet their deadline for submitting petitions, Clark County Clerk Rhonda Cole said Monday.
The Springdale Fire Department's hazardous material team spent nearly three hours Monday floating absorbent pads in Mill Creek to contain a diesel fuel spill.
A Hot Springs man who tried to carry a loaded automatic pistol on to a flight at Little Rock’s National Airport over the weekend is not facing federal criminal charges, the head of Arkansas’ Transportation Security Administration said Monday. Security guards at the airport found a.25-caliber Browning pistol in the carry-on bag of Calvert Addy, 64. The bag also contained two loaded magazines, and the weapon had a round in its chamber.
A baby sitter's 2-year-old son may have dealt the blows that killed an infant in March 2005, and not the baby sitter, a defense attorney suggested during the first day of a murder trial Monday. Attorney Drew Miller said he'll call the now-5-year-old son of Samantha Mitchell to testify. The boy told his father that his younger brother hurt the baby, Miller said.
Pine Bluff can boast it has another tourist attraction, the 1960s era McDonald’s Store Number 433 sign at 1300 S. Main St. Built in 1962, it is the only known surviving example of an early single-arch sign in Arkansas. It has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Director Ken Grunewald announced.
A federal jury will begin deciding this morning whether Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was responsible for a Benton woman’s breast cancer. The jury that has listened to three weeks of testimony in a Little Rock courtroom is the first in the country to hear details of one of about 5,000 cases with similar claims pending against the New Jersey-based company.
Voters head to the polls today to decide whether to further tax themselves to help Pulaski County reopen and build more jail space.
The state body that disciplines judges will keep the public out of a preliminary hearing to determine if appeals court Judge Wendell Griffen’s speeches violated rules constraining what judges can say publicly. The public, including the news media, will be barred from attending an investigative hearing Friday, even though the accused judge requested the proceeding be open.
The state Education Department may lobby the Legislature to extend the public school year or to allow districts to start earlier in August and end earlier in the summer. The discussion arose when the Board of Education considered a waiver for Cabot Public Schools, whose junior high building was destroyed in a fire last month.
The latest financial reports on Fayetteville’s Haas Hall Academy charter school satisfied state Board of Education members who last month warned that they were losing patience with the lack of detailed data.
Organizers seeking to allow alcohol sales in Arkadelphia failed to meet their deadline for submitting petitions, Clark County Clerk Rhonda Cole said Monday.
The Springdale Fire Department's hazardous material team spent nearly three hours Monday floating absorbent pads in Mill Creek to contain a diesel fuel spill.
A Hot Springs man who tried to carry a loaded automatic pistol on to a flight at Little Rock’s National Airport over the weekend is not facing federal criminal charges, the head of Arkansas’ Transportation Security Administration said Monday. Security guards at the airport found a.25-caliber Browning pistol in the carry-on bag of Calvert Addy, 64. The bag also contained two loaded magazines, and the weapon had a round in its chamber.
A baby sitter's 2-year-old son may have dealt the blows that killed an infant in March 2005, and not the baby sitter, a defense attorney suggested during the first day of a murder trial Monday. Attorney Drew Miller said he'll call the now-5-year-old son of Samantha Mitchell to testify. The boy told his father that his younger brother hurt the baby, Miller said.
Pine Bluff can boast it has another tourist attraction, the 1960s era McDonald’s Store Number 433 sign at 1300 S. Main St. Built in 1962, it is the only known surviving example of an early single-arch sign in Arkansas. It has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Director Ken Grunewald announced.
