The Wednesday Wake Up is on KARK TV Channel 4 this morning at around 6:45. Tune in or set your DVR. Bill Vickery will rumble with our weekly winners and losers.
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Rita Gruber has defeated Appeals Court Judge Wendell Griffen. Joyce Elliott showed Irma Hunter Brown the door in the state senate race. Courtney Henry of Fayetteville has defeated Ron Williams of Springdale in the race for an open seat on the state Court of Appeals. Jefferson County District Judge Waymond Brown defeated Pine Bluff attorney Eugene Hunt for an Appeals Court post representing Arkansas, Chicot, Desha, Jefferson, Lee, Phillips and St. Francis counties. Keith Fergusson will not face Andy Lee in a runoff. Fergusson will serve his fourth term as Benton County Sheriff.
There will be runoffs…It will be Leverett v. Sullivan for environmental; Finkelstein v. Lightle for criminal; Compton v. Gilbert for the circuit judgeship.
The state Board of Election Commissioners sent two staffers and 16 monitors Tuesday to St. Francis County.
Former Arkansas basketball player Corey Beck was arrested booked into the Washington County Jail. Beck was charged with contempt of court and had not been released as of Tuesday night. Arkansas running back Brandon Barnett was arrested and booked by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Barnett has an outstanding warrant in Johnson County, and he bonded out of jail.
The President declared a major disaster exists Arkansas and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, and tornadoes beginning on May 2, 2008, and continuing.The President’s action makes Federal funding available to affected individuals in the counties of Benton, Cleburne, Conway, Crittenden, Grant, Lonoke, Mississippi, Pulaski, Saline, and Van Buren.
Some of Arkansas best summer destinations are still soggy from the spring flooding. Almost half the campsites in Greers Ferry Lake are still under water and the Lake is high.
A convicted killer pardoned by former Gov. Mike Huckabee, Wade Earle Stewart will serve four years in prison on a gun charge
A woman who was forgotten in a courthouse holding cell for four days without food or water will not be prosecuted on the charge that landed her there.
The group that represents Pulaski County Special School District support staff is raising questions about the Pulaski School Board’s decision to meet one-by-one with a private bus contractor to avoid the state’s open meetings law.
Soaring gas prices could wreak havoc with state budgets and may force state agencies to cut back on travel.
Arkansas is to receive $1.38 million as its share of a $58 million settlement announced Tuesday with pharmaceutical company Merck over the marketing of the Vioxx, an arithritis drug and pain-killer.
Barbara Sears Rockefeller, who was married to Winthrop Rockefeller before he was Arkansas governor, died Monday. She was 91. Her acrimonious divorce from the late governor drew national attention in the early 1950’s. She is the mother of the late Lieutenant Governor Win Paul Rockefeller. She is a former Miss Lithuania.
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette will debut a new publication called Arkansas Life.
It is now against the law to sell anything door-to-door in White Hall.
A Fayetteville man who leapt from a car and was run over and killed by a motorist on North College Avenue in downtown Fayetteville was arguing with his wife immediately before leaving her car, police said.
And now, the most popular baby names in Arkansas for 2007, as compiled by the Social Security Administration. For boys: William, Jacob, Ethan, Jackson, Christopher. GIRLS: Madison, Emma, Emily, Addison, Olivia.
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Join me and Bill Vickery for the WEDNESDAY WAKE-UP around 6:45 every Wednesday morning on KARK TV Channel 4. We pick winners and losers from the past week and comment on the day's top news. Sometimes we play rough, but it is always a million laughs.
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