Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Slacker Wednesday Summary
(I knew I forgot something!)
October 25, 2006
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports police have identified Emiti Freddy as the 10-year-old girl who was strangled to death and sexually assaulted Saturday at her residence in Springdale. Freedy’s legal guardian, Abon Tili, who admits being drunk and unconscious Saturday morning at the time of the attack, is charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. Police are also questioning an alleged “witness.”
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Beebe’s step daughter`s husband has taken his own life at a Searcy hotel. Police found the body of 39 year old Anthony Taylor in a room inside The Hampton Inn on Race Street Tuesday morning. KARK Channel 4 reports that He died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officers say they discovered the body while attempting to serve Taylor with a warrant for domestic battery against his wife Tammy.
Arkansas’ colleges and universities spent $5.9 million on advertising in the fiscal year that ended June 30, lawmakers learned Tuesday. College leaders defended it as a good investment as they also move for a boost in funding for higher education next legislative session.
FBI officials announced Tuesday the creation of a statewide hotline to report suspected acts of corruption by public officials. Anyone can report it to the Little Rock FBI office at (501) 221-8200. The Little Rock office also is devoting additional manpower to corruption investigations.
State Sen. Mary Anne Salmon said Monday that she’s still getting calls from constituents and reading newspaper stories about price gouging by tow-truck operators, although she thought the 2005 Legislature passed a law to fix that The 2005 Legislature handed a state board the responsibility of investigating complaints about the towing and storage prices charged to motorists to free their cars from impound lots and the authority to fine tow-truck operators charging excessive prices.
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Bowman on Tuesday signed a rule giving freestanding magnetic resonance imaging and sleep apnea clinics inclusion under the state’s “any willing provider” law.
John Atwood of Little Rock, the former vice president of finance for the Pine Bluff-based USA Drug chain is facing 10 years in prison after admitting that he stole $550,000 from the company.
An attorney representing Saline County in a federal labor lawsuit has recommended that the county accept a recent verdict on overtime pay for sheriff’s office employees. A U.S. District Court jury in Little Rock found in favor of 37 current and former sheriff’s deputies and clerks and rendered a $257,284 verdict against the county May 24. There are also more than $300,000 in attorney fees assessed against the county.
The Lincoln mayor asked a Lincoln police officer to give a suspected drunken driver "a break," during a DWI stop in May, according to a Lincoln Police Department report. Sandra S. Blackford, a Lincoln resident, was stopped for crossing the center line and driving while intoxicated at approximately 1:47 a.m. on May 20. Mayor Henry Buchanan was a passenger in her car.
The Mansfield School Board accepted the superintendent’s recommendation Monday to fire Sally Bryan, a longtime school bus driver, for allegedly failing to report sexual abuse allegations involving a male student who rode her bus. Bryan claims the district withheld information from her that a convicted sex offender was riding her bus.
A 16-year-old student is under arrest for allegedly writing two letters that threatened five Cedarville High School students, Ron Brown, Crawford County’s chief deputy, said. The student, whom Brown would not identify as either a male or female, was arrested after a classmate found a threatening letter in his locker on Monday.
The idea of rebuilding the dome atop Little Rock City Hall has been canned.
October 25, 2006
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas reports police have identified Emiti Freddy as the 10-year-old girl who was strangled to death and sexually assaulted Saturday at her residence in Springdale. Freedy’s legal guardian, Abon Tili, who admits being drunk and unconscious Saturday morning at the time of the attack, is charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor. Police are also questioning an alleged “witness.”
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Beebe’s step daughter`s husband has taken his own life at a Searcy hotel. Police found the body of 39 year old Anthony Taylor in a room inside The Hampton Inn on Race Street Tuesday morning. KARK Channel 4 reports that He died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Officers say they discovered the body while attempting to serve Taylor with a warrant for domestic battery against his wife Tammy.
Arkansas’ colleges and universities spent $5.9 million on advertising in the fiscal year that ended June 30, lawmakers learned Tuesday. College leaders defended it as a good investment as they also move for a boost in funding for higher education next legislative session.
FBI officials announced Tuesday the creation of a statewide hotline to report suspected acts of corruption by public officials. Anyone can report it to the Little Rock FBI office at (501) 221-8200. The Little Rock office also is devoting additional manpower to corruption investigations.
State Sen. Mary Anne Salmon said Monday that she’s still getting calls from constituents and reading newspaper stories about price gouging by tow-truck operators, although she thought the 2005 Legislature passed a law to fix that The 2005 Legislature handed a state board the responsibility of investigating complaints about the towing and storage prices charged to motorists to free their cars from impound lots and the authority to fine tow-truck operators charging excessive prices.
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Bowman on Tuesday signed a rule giving freestanding magnetic resonance imaging and sleep apnea clinics inclusion under the state’s “any willing provider” law.
John Atwood of Little Rock, the former vice president of finance for the Pine Bluff-based USA Drug chain is facing 10 years in prison after admitting that he stole $550,000 from the company.
An attorney representing Saline County in a federal labor lawsuit has recommended that the county accept a recent verdict on overtime pay for sheriff’s office employees. A U.S. District Court jury in Little Rock found in favor of 37 current and former sheriff’s deputies and clerks and rendered a $257,284 verdict against the county May 24. There are also more than $300,000 in attorney fees assessed against the county.
The Lincoln mayor asked a Lincoln police officer to give a suspected drunken driver "a break," during a DWI stop in May, according to a Lincoln Police Department report. Sandra S. Blackford, a Lincoln resident, was stopped for crossing the center line and driving while intoxicated at approximately 1:47 a.m. on May 20. Mayor Henry Buchanan was a passenger in her car.
The Mansfield School Board accepted the superintendent’s recommendation Monday to fire Sally Bryan, a longtime school bus driver, for allegedly failing to report sexual abuse allegations involving a male student who rode her bus. Bryan claims the district withheld information from her that a convicted sex offender was riding her bus.
A 16-year-old student is under arrest for allegedly writing two letters that threatened five Cedarville High School students, Ron Brown, Crawford County’s chief deputy, said. The student, whom Brown would not identify as either a male or female, was arrested after a classmate found a threatening letter in his locker on Monday.
The idea of rebuilding the dome atop Little Rock City Hall has been canned.
