Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Tuesday dawn summary
The proposed expansion of the state’s only medical school into Northwest Arkansas will cost about $11 million annually, Dr. I. Dodd Wilson, chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, said Monday. UAMS plans to push a measure when the Legislature meets in January that would establish a satellite campus in Northwest Arkansas. That would allow UAMS to train about 250 to 295 more students and residents annually.
Wal-Mart says it will scale back its rate of expansion in the United States while ramping up its growth in foreign markets.
Arkansas Best says that its double-digit decrease in third-quarter net income reflected efforts to continue expanding into the next-day and same-day delivery market.
Workers plan to start excavating tons of gasoline-soaked soil from a storage and pipeline facility in Rogers by the end of the month. According to the cleanup plan, 70,560 gallons of gasoline actually spilled onto the ground at the site on Oct. 3 when a storage tank overflowed. The amount spilled was first reported as 1,000 gallons.
High-speed Internet service for many areas of Benton appears to be on the way. Representatives of AT&T Arkansas report that the company is planning a significant build-up in its digital subscriber line (DSL) presence in the city by mid-2007.
Three Jonesboro aldermen have called a special Jonesboro City Council meeting for 4 p.m. today to consider a 5-year capital improvement projects list. The projects would cost an estimated $64 million, while officials believe that less than $50 million will be available in the city's Capital Improvement Fund over the next five years.
The death of a 10-year-old Marshallese girl has been ruled a homicide by strangulation, and there was also evidence she was sexually assaulted, according to a preliminary autopsy report. Police received a 911 call Saturday morning a 10-year-old child who was having respiratory problems at her home. Springdale fire emergency personnel performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child, but they couldn't revive her.
An Arkansas State Police investigation into a letter containing a white powder that was sent to the state Capitol has led to the arrest of a 29-year-old state prison inmate on felony charges. Leroy Selsor, an inmate at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys, is charged with use of a hoax device and impairing operations of a vital public facility, both class D felonies punishable by up to six years in prison.
The Saline County Quorum Court will meet in a special session tonight in Benton to decide whether to appeal a $257,284 jury verdict against the county, as well as a related $328,925 award for attorneys’ fees and court costs.
Kendall Owens of the Forrest City Times Herald reports a man was arrested for residential burglary early Saturday after getting stuck in a window of the home. When officers arrived at the apartment they found a nude individual stuck between the air conditioning unit and the window frame. Dennis Reed told police he was forced at gunpoint to break into the apartment by a subject he only knew by his first name.
Wal-Mart says it will scale back its rate of expansion in the United States while ramping up its growth in foreign markets.
Arkansas Best says that its double-digit decrease in third-quarter net income reflected efforts to continue expanding into the next-day and same-day delivery market.
Workers plan to start excavating tons of gasoline-soaked soil from a storage and pipeline facility in Rogers by the end of the month. According to the cleanup plan, 70,560 gallons of gasoline actually spilled onto the ground at the site on Oct. 3 when a storage tank overflowed. The amount spilled was first reported as 1,000 gallons.
High-speed Internet service for many areas of Benton appears to be on the way. Representatives of AT&T Arkansas report that the company is planning a significant build-up in its digital subscriber line (DSL) presence in the city by mid-2007.
Three Jonesboro aldermen have called a special Jonesboro City Council meeting for 4 p.m. today to consider a 5-year capital improvement projects list. The projects would cost an estimated $64 million, while officials believe that less than $50 million will be available in the city's Capital Improvement Fund over the next five years.
The death of a 10-year-old Marshallese girl has been ruled a homicide by strangulation, and there was also evidence she was sexually assaulted, according to a preliminary autopsy report. Police received a 911 call Saturday morning a 10-year-old child who was having respiratory problems at her home. Springdale fire emergency personnel performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the child, but they couldn't revive her.
An Arkansas State Police investigation into a letter containing a white powder that was sent to the state Capitol has led to the arrest of a 29-year-old state prison inmate on felony charges. Leroy Selsor, an inmate at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys, is charged with use of a hoax device and impairing operations of a vital public facility, both class D felonies punishable by up to six years in prison.
The Saline County Quorum Court will meet in a special session tonight in Benton to decide whether to appeal a $257,284 jury verdict against the county, as well as a related $328,925 award for attorneys’ fees and court costs.
Kendall Owens of the Forrest City Times Herald reports a man was arrested for residential burglary early Saturday after getting stuck in a window of the home. When officers arrived at the apartment they found a nude individual stuck between the air conditioning unit and the window frame. Dennis Reed told police he was forced at gunpoint to break into the apartment by a subject he only knew by his first name.
