Tuesday summary

Back to work! Be sure to grab yesterday’s Democrat-Gazette for my Memorial Day column It is worth a read and you will find it in the Arkansas section on the Voices page.

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Patrick Duvall is in the Pope County after he allegedly began shooting four members of a wedding party. Duvall is reportedly unknown to those in the wedding. The family of newlyweds Michael Beavers, and Melissa Smith, say alcohol and an argument over dogs led to the shooting.

You may be taking some time off, and three Arkansas congressmen are off to a big NATO meeting in Europe. Congressmen Boosmen, Ross and Berry will will be in Berlin through today and then move on to Turkey. Congressman Snyder is in Oregon attending his niece’s high school graduation. 

About 20 people had to be rescued from islands near the White River in northwest Arkansas as storms moved across the region.

The Pine Bluff Commercial reports a nonprofit group that received more than $500,000 in government funding to build much-needed housing for the poor has only sold just six homes in its 10 years, a newspaper investigation has found.

The Pulaski County Quorum Court will consider an ordinance putting time limits on citizen comments at their meetings.

The president of the University of Arkansas System says that campus officials will change their policies to ensure they’re asking prospective students whether they’re legal residents of the United States.

There were graduation ceremonies over the weekend for 873 inmates of the Arkansas correction department who passed their GED.

North Little Rock has received approval to begin testing a 5-foot-long, remote controlled helicopter that it hopes to someday use to fight crime. The FAA is not crazy about the idea of drones in urban areas.

The site of the former University Mall will be developed and it will include a Target, restaurants, and perhaps apartments or a hotel. The planning commission approved over staff objections.

Candidates in four separate races in White County requested recounts even as the chairman of the county election commission said she was confident revised vote totals announced late Wednesday were accurate.

A Mexican woman forgotten in a Washington County holding cell for four days without food and water no longer faces criminal charges, but her immigration woes have just begun as she faces deportation.. Adriana Flores-Torres, who has been in the Unites States 19 years, has a husband and three American-born children.

A clerk was found dead behind the cash register of a Family Dollar store in Nashville, Ark

The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season should be about as bad as normal or slightly busier, with a good chance of six to nine hurricanes forming.

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