Monday, October 30, 2006
Monday summary at sunrise
Rogers Mayor Steve Womack says that he can’t prove earlier claims that “the clear majority” of his city’s drug and gang problems are caused by illegal aliens, but that won’t keep him from seeking laws penalizing those who employ or rent to illegal aliens in Rogers.
Garland County voters are casting early ballots on paper rather than on new touchscreen voting machines because public and private election officials haven’t been able to program the machines properly.
Voters in Dumas, home to the highest local sales tax rate in the state, have a chance come Election Day to lower the levy, provided they agree to extend the deadline for paying off a pair of public-works bond issues.
The new $9 million Bentonville public library opens today.
Sixteen highway projects worth an estimated $94 million won’t be awarded contracts next month because Congress hasn’t passed a bill that would provide federal money for those and other highway projects around the nation.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Russellville from discharging its sewage directly into the Arkansas River just across the waterway from Dardanelle.
The transgressions of a few work-release inmates will cost their fellow prisoners $2 more per day to continue to participate in the program, according to state prison officials.
Shots fired at a Halloween party sent partygoers running scared through the halls of a Fort Smith Ramada Inn and left a University of Arkansas at Fort Smith basketball player critically injured. Police found Terrist Parramore lying on the ballroom floor with multiple gunshots to the head and chest. Two suspects, one a 16 year-old, are in custody.
Philip Verser of Ashdown is being held at the Pope County Detention Center on $200,000 bond after Russellville police alleged he beat an 18-month-old child. Verser told police the child had fallen from a 32-inch dresser onto a wooden floor. A pediatrician told officers the fall would not have been consistent with the child’s injuries.
After being held at the Pope County Detention Center on $200,000 bond for nearly two years awaiting a jury trial, a Russellville man is free after being acquitted of his three felony charges. Wesley Corley was charged in November 2004 with residential burglary, aggravated assault and possessing cocaine after an alleged violent altercation between him and his ex-wife. He was also charged with third-degree battery and violating an order of protection, both misdemeanors, for which he was convicted and sentenced to one year.
A Garland County Circuit Court jury has acquitted a Royal man of first-degree murder, after a two-day trial. Robert Milton Allen was accused of killing his next-door neighbor, William “Rocky” Foster, on Oct. 20, 2005. The defendant initially said he had shot Foster in self-defense, only to testify Thursday that his son, Zack Allen, then 15, was the shooter. The jury deliberated for a little more than an hour Friday morning before returning an innocent verdict. Prosecutors say they have no plans to charge Zack Allen with the crime.
A former Guy-Perkins substitute, Stacy Renee Massey, was arrested on Thursday, Aug. 24 by Clinton and Conway policemen for suspicion of two counts of first-degree sexual assault on a 16-year-old male. The incident, alleged ot have occurred November 5, 2005,occured in a Clinton Super 8 was reported to police on August 11.
Little Rock ranks 23nd on a list of the nation’s most dangerous cities, to be released today, moving up two places from No. 25 a year earlier. Morgan Quitno Press, a research and publishing firm in Lawrence, Kan compiled the rankings, based on statistics from 2005.
A horse is fighting for its life after it was shot in a North Little Rock pasture. In the past nine months, three other horses have been shot in the same pasture, all of them fatally.
New guidelines developed by the state Department of Higher Education will make it easier for college students to transfer course credits from one Arkansas school to another.
Customer growth partly driven by its My Circle calling plan helped Alltel Corp. post an 11 percent increase in its third-quarter earnings
An owner of the former American Greetings facility in McCrory confirms that a California-based company will open an operation at the site The 780,000-square-foot facility, originally a distribution center for American Greetings Corp.’s Osceola plant, closed in 2003, taking away about 300 jobs from the community of about 1,900.
This year’s seating chart at Little Rock’s Farmers Market - one that separated the vendors of homegrown-only produce from those who import food - was deemed a success and will remain in place next year.
Garland County voters are casting early ballots on paper rather than on new touchscreen voting machines because public and private election officials haven’t been able to program the machines properly.
Voters in Dumas, home to the highest local sales tax rate in the state, have a chance come Election Day to lower the levy, provided they agree to extend the deadline for paying off a pair of public-works bond issues.
The new $9 million Bentonville public library opens today.
Sixteen highway projects worth an estimated $94 million won’t be awarded contracts next month because Congress hasn’t passed a bill that would provide federal money for those and other highway projects around the nation.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to prevent Russellville from discharging its sewage directly into the Arkansas River just across the waterway from Dardanelle.
The transgressions of a few work-release inmates will cost their fellow prisoners $2 more per day to continue to participate in the program, according to state prison officials.
Shots fired at a Halloween party sent partygoers running scared through the halls of a Fort Smith Ramada Inn and left a University of Arkansas at Fort Smith basketball player critically injured. Police found Terrist Parramore lying on the ballroom floor with multiple gunshots to the head and chest. Two suspects, one a 16 year-old, are in custody.
Philip Verser of Ashdown is being held at the Pope County Detention Center on $200,000 bond after Russellville police alleged he beat an 18-month-old child. Verser told police the child had fallen from a 32-inch dresser onto a wooden floor. A pediatrician told officers the fall would not have been consistent with the child’s injuries.
After being held at the Pope County Detention Center on $200,000 bond for nearly two years awaiting a jury trial, a Russellville man is free after being acquitted of his three felony charges. Wesley Corley was charged in November 2004 with residential burglary, aggravated assault and possessing cocaine after an alleged violent altercation between him and his ex-wife. He was also charged with third-degree battery and violating an order of protection, both misdemeanors, for which he was convicted and sentenced to one year.
A Garland County Circuit Court jury has acquitted a Royal man of first-degree murder, after a two-day trial. Robert Milton Allen was accused of killing his next-door neighbor, William “Rocky” Foster, on Oct. 20, 2005. The defendant initially said he had shot Foster in self-defense, only to testify Thursday that his son, Zack Allen, then 15, was the shooter. The jury deliberated for a little more than an hour Friday morning before returning an innocent verdict. Prosecutors say they have no plans to charge Zack Allen with the crime.
A former Guy-Perkins substitute, Stacy Renee Massey, was arrested on Thursday, Aug. 24 by Clinton and Conway policemen for suspicion of two counts of first-degree sexual assault on a 16-year-old male. The incident, alleged ot have occurred November 5, 2005,occured in a Clinton Super 8 was reported to police on August 11.
Little Rock ranks 23nd on a list of the nation’s most dangerous cities, to be released today, moving up two places from No. 25 a year earlier. Morgan Quitno Press, a research and publishing firm in Lawrence, Kan compiled the rankings, based on statistics from 2005.
A horse is fighting for its life after it was shot in a North Little Rock pasture. In the past nine months, three other horses have been shot in the same pasture, all of them fatally.
New guidelines developed by the state Department of Higher Education will make it easier for college students to transfer course credits from one Arkansas school to another.
Customer growth partly driven by its My Circle calling plan helped Alltel Corp. post an 11 percent increase in its third-quarter earnings
An owner of the former American Greetings facility in McCrory confirms that a California-based company will open an operation at the site The 780,000-square-foot facility, originally a distribution center for American Greetings Corp.’s Osceola plant, closed in 2003, taking away about 300 jobs from the community of about 1,900.
This year’s seating chart at Little Rock’s Farmers Market - one that separated the vendors of homegrown-only produce from those who import food - was deemed a success and will remain in place next year.
