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Arkansas wide receiver Marques Wade faces a drunken driving charge after authorities said he nearly hit a police officer with his car late Saturday night. The report alleges Wade had bloodshot eyes and denied drinking, but said he had “smoked some marijuana earlier in the day.” Police said a breathalyzer test showed Wade had a blood-alcohol level of 0.11.
Elmer Martin Jr., a former member of the Arkansas team that captured the national basketball championship in 1994 has been convicted of drug charges and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Former Razorback Felix Jones is now officially a Dallas Cowboy, inking a 5-year $10.5 million deal.
Arkansas now ranks last in the nation for the percentage of adults completing college, moving from 19.7 percent of residents holding bachelor’s degrees to 18.2 percent. That puts Arkansas behind West Virginia.
University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin won’t get his much-debated $300,000 bonus until 2010 unless the board of trustees votes otherwise before then.
Motor fuel tax collections that fund the Highway Department are down in the last fiscal year, and way down in the past three months. Spokesman Randy Ort calls it “alarming.”
The Republican Party of Arkansas supports a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the Legislature to convene annually, the party’s state convention decided Saturday as the party faithful rallied for the Nov. 4 general election.
Gov. Mike Beebe has ended a nearly four-decades-old practice of holding Cabinet meetings, a tradition dating back to former Gov. Dale Bumpers.
A judge says that he’s not inclined to let employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. serve as jurors in a case over whether former Wal-Mart executive Tom Coughlin can collect retirement benefits.
Today’s Democrat-Gazette reports that Little Rock police are looking into the harassing phone calls received by local rock groupie, Connie Hamzy. It is part of a growing trend to prosecute such cases and warning letters have gone out to four El. Dorado residents.
The four juveniles nabbed by Pine Bluff police for stealing five automobiles out of a local dealership may also be implicated in a Conway crime spree the previous week in which two dozen cars were burglarized at a local apartment complex.
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar will represent Arkansas on National Parents Day. Congress established National Parents Day as the fourth Sunday in July.
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