Wednesday Wake Up and Pat Classic

The Wednesday Wake Up is on KARK TV this morning at 6:45. Bill Vickery and I have the winners and losers. It is always hilarious.

My morning updates are on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with Don Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7.

My 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

Sheriff’s deputies say a 14-month-old girl died in Crittenden County after apparently being left in her mother’s car for three-and-a-half hours. The mother faces charges. The temperature in the car after police arrived as 127 degrees.

Today’s Democrat Gazette reports that UCA President Lu Hardin is the sole author of a memo promoting his much discussed  $300,000 bonus. That memo bears the names of three other university officials who know nothing about it.

The latest count of the state’s homeless population is down, suggesting that thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees have found housing.

A 2,000 acre site in Saline County has already been certified as meeting requirements for a large industrial employer, according to Economic Development officials who made the announcement yesterday.

Senator Steve Faris of Malvern says that agencies not involved in wildlife protection should have a piece of the $29.5 million the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will receive from leasing more than 11,500 acres to a natural gas firm.

A New York jewelry wholesaler was robbed at gunpoint just moments before he was to pay a call at a Cantrell Road jeweler shortly before 1 p.m. today. There was a similar incident in Pine Bluff a few weeks ago.

Defensive tackle Ernest Mitchell was pulled over in Forrest City on June 30, is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday to face charges of improper display of tags, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and simultaneous possession of drugs and a firearm.

Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino announced that wide receiver Marques Wade and linebacker Freddy Burton will each be suspended for the first two games of the season because of their recent arrests for driving while intoxicated.

Siloam Springs Police officers may have subjected more than a thousand people arrested on minor offenses to illegal strip and body cavity searches, according to a federal lawsuit.

A former Lincoln High School senior has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to helping set a teacher’s Volkswagen Beetle on fire.

The Bleacher Report has Houston Nutt as a probably SEC Coach of the Year.

Lonoke police confirmed that an armed robbery suspect was shot and killed by a local officer. The shooting occurred after the armed robbery of an I-40 service station in which a package of cigarettes was taken.

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