Wednesday Wake Up on Channel 4 and Pat Classic

The Wednesday Wake-Up is on KARK TV Channel 4 this morning at around 6:45. Bill Vickery and I will have the winners and losers of the week.

My morning news updates are on twice an hour every weekday morning on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7.

The radio show is on at 9

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

2008 is already the deadliest tornado year in the United States since 1998 and seems on track to break the record for the number of twisters in a year, according to the National Weather Service. Nationally, the death toll is around 110 and 20 of those are in Arkansas.

Entergy says about 10,000 customers lost power in yesterday’s thunderstorms.

Routine maintenance on the Interstate 430 bridge over the Arkansas River will require closing the northbound outside lane today and Thursday,

Little Rock city manager Bruce Moore gets a 2.5% raise, which gets him up to $164,000 annually. Officials are checking to see if Mayor Mark Stodola will automatically receive the same increase.

Recounts in four White County elections will not be held until June 3, despite a state law requiring counties to certify vote totals within 10 days of the election, officials said Tuesday.

The old Dillard’s building on Capitol Avenue has been sold by Union Rescue Mission to a pair of Dallas developers. A number of state agencies are expected to lease space in the building.

Springdale will have no new billboards.

Tourism officials released revamped travel brochures Tuesday that double as “passports” for a “Billgrimage” through four Arkansas cities with ties to former President Bill Clinton.

Ciber Inc., a Colorado company that provides information technology services, will double its current Little Rock workforce of 22 within the year.

You may remember the Fort Smith Shipyard that was supposed to employ 150. It’s shut down after 9 months and the owner is blaming local government for a lack of cooperation and some pending lawsuits.

Pine Bluff graduate Nyzel J. Williams, will attend the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville this fall and major in computer software engineering. He already had a full ride scholarship, but was awarded the Gates Millennium Scholarship and that is valued at $250,000. Williams says he can plan for graduate school now. 

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