Friday, December 29, 2006
In all the early morning rush..
I never posted yesterday's headlines. So, here they are. A day late and.....
Thursday December 28, 2006
Central Arkansas banks are increasing security after a recent wave of robberies that bankers say is unprecedented in its violence. A bank robber killed a 25-year-old teller Saturday, and on Tuesday, a group of robbers exchanged gunfire with police then led Little Rock officers on a chase through a residential neighborhood.
Appearing on the Pat Lynch Show, Congressman Vic Snyder told listeners that Democrats will demand more accountability from administration officials on military affairs. He said that the revival of the investigative functions of the House Armed Services Committee is not a partisan “gotcha’” weapon and compared it to Harry Truman’s WWII oversight committee.
President Bush will have to answer some tough questions from Congress if he wants approval for a massive increase of American troops in Iraq, Sen. Mark Pryor, said Wednesday.
Brian Walker of Atkins is dead after he lost control of his three-wheel all-terrain vehicle and struck a tree. He was dead at the scene from head trauma.
Two people are shot while driving along West Belding Street in Hot Springs shortly after 7pm Wednesday night. Police say one man was shot in the hand and leg and a female was shot in the head. Right now-police are looking for two suspects.
Lawrence County sheriff ’s deputies arrested L. F. Nance of Strawberry Wednesday and plan to pursue charges of cruelty to animals against him after an animal-rescue group found scores of dead pigs, chickens and goats on his property last week.
The Fayetteville pilot who died in an airplane crash Dec. 18 had trouble seeing in the fog as he tried to land at Fayetteville Municipal Airport, Drake Field, a passenger injured in the crash said Wednesday.
A circuit judge says he will rule by 5 p.m. today on a request to block the New Year’s Day swearing-in of John Graves as District 12 justice of the peace on the Jefferson County Quorum Court. Judge Rob Wyatt, who heard arguments on the request Wednesday in Jefferson County Circuit Court, made it clear that plaintiff Mike Burdine will not be the new District 12 justice of the peace.
A victory at the polls by a West Memphis City Council member who died before the election leaves the person appointed to fill the vacancy as the office-holder for the coming term, according to a state attorney general's opinion. A majority of voters in West Memphis voted for Harold Thomas, who died Aug. 11. Thomas, the incumbent, defeated challenger Donn Fowler by 249 votes in the Nov. 7 general election.
Mark Stodola, Little Rock’s mayor-elect and a registered lobbyist at the state Capitol for several years, said Wednesday he will continue to lobby before the Legislature for private clients.
The Lawrence County businessman who successfully orchestrated an election on whether to allow the sale of alcohol on property he owns in neighboring Greene County says he plans to sell beer and barbecue at a yet-to-be-constructed convenience store on the banks of the Cache River.
Plans for a new high school to serve the Maumelle and Oak Grove communities moved a step closer to fruition Wednesday when the School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District accepted the donation of 83 acres as a possible site for the building. James Freeman of Texarkana, chief financial officer for Dillard’s, is donating the undeveloped Maumelle property west of portions of Arkansas 365 and Interstate 40 and east of Counts Massie Road.
Five of seven counties in western Arkansas are home to a higher percentage of overweight and obese adults than state and national averages, according to the results of a random telephone survey conducted nationwide.
Thursday December 28, 2006
Central Arkansas banks are increasing security after a recent wave of robberies that bankers say is unprecedented in its violence. A bank robber killed a 25-year-old teller Saturday, and on Tuesday, a group of robbers exchanged gunfire with police then led Little Rock officers on a chase through a residential neighborhood.
Appearing on the Pat Lynch Show, Congressman Vic Snyder told listeners that Democrats will demand more accountability from administration officials on military affairs. He said that the revival of the investigative functions of the House Armed Services Committee is not a partisan “gotcha’” weapon and compared it to Harry Truman’s WWII oversight committee.
President Bush will have to answer some tough questions from Congress if he wants approval for a massive increase of American troops in Iraq, Sen. Mark Pryor, said Wednesday.
Brian Walker of Atkins is dead after he lost control of his three-wheel all-terrain vehicle and struck a tree. He was dead at the scene from head trauma.
Two people are shot while driving along West Belding Street in Hot Springs shortly after 7pm Wednesday night. Police say one man was shot in the hand and leg and a female was shot in the head. Right now-police are looking for two suspects.
Lawrence County sheriff ’s deputies arrested L. F. Nance of Strawberry Wednesday and plan to pursue charges of cruelty to animals against him after an animal-rescue group found scores of dead pigs, chickens and goats on his property last week.
The Fayetteville pilot who died in an airplane crash Dec. 18 had trouble seeing in the fog as he tried to land at Fayetteville Municipal Airport, Drake Field, a passenger injured in the crash said Wednesday.
A circuit judge says he will rule by 5 p.m. today on a request to block the New Year’s Day swearing-in of John Graves as District 12 justice of the peace on the Jefferson County Quorum Court. Judge Rob Wyatt, who heard arguments on the request Wednesday in Jefferson County Circuit Court, made it clear that plaintiff Mike Burdine will not be the new District 12 justice of the peace.
A victory at the polls by a West Memphis City Council member who died before the election leaves the person appointed to fill the vacancy as the office-holder for the coming term, according to a state attorney general's opinion. A majority of voters in West Memphis voted for Harold Thomas, who died Aug. 11. Thomas, the incumbent, defeated challenger Donn Fowler by 249 votes in the Nov. 7 general election.
Mark Stodola, Little Rock’s mayor-elect and a registered lobbyist at the state Capitol for several years, said Wednesday he will continue to lobby before the Legislature for private clients.
The Lawrence County businessman who successfully orchestrated an election on whether to allow the sale of alcohol on property he owns in neighboring Greene County says he plans to sell beer and barbecue at a yet-to-be-constructed convenience store on the banks of the Cache River.
Plans for a new high school to serve the Maumelle and Oak Grove communities moved a step closer to fruition Wednesday when the School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District accepted the donation of 83 acres as a possible site for the building. James Freeman of Texarkana, chief financial officer for Dillard’s, is donating the undeveloped Maumelle property west of portions of Arkansas 365 and Interstate 40 and east of Counts Massie Road.
Five of seven counties in western Arkansas are home to a higher percentage of overweight and obese adults than state and national averages, according to the results of a random telephone survey conducted nationwide.
