The Wednesday Wake Up is on this morning at around 6:45 on KARK TV Channel 4. Bill Vickery and I will have the week’s winners and losers.
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Sen. Mark Pryor says that Arkansas could be a battleground state in the November presidential race between Barack Obama and John McCain.
Vic Snyder and Blanche Lincoln stopped short of saying that federally mandated corn-ethanol production levels should be reduced to hold down the cost of chicken feed. The energy industry’s demand for corn has inflated costs for chicken operations, forcing some to shutter facilities and cut jobs.
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Tom Glaze, who has been on the bench for 21 years plans to retire. Gov. Beebe is looking for a replacement.
Arkansas students’ ACT scores for 2008 improved slightly over the previous year. The average composite score of 20.6 out a possible 36. The national average composite score in 2008 was 21.1.
Sen. Jim Argue tells members of the Joint Committee on Education that the state-mandated adequacy report on costs to provide an adequate education leaves too many questions unanswered, particularly on teacher salaries and fuel costs.
Stephens Sports columnist Harry King reports Mitch Mustain, who left Arkansas after a year of hassling with former coach Houston Nutt, is in line to start USC’s Aug. 30 opener at Virginia because Mark Sanchez suffered a dislocated kneecap last week.
Man Industries Ltd. has completed real estate purchases for a site in Little Rock where the company is to build a $100 million pipe manufacturing plant. That will mean 250 manufacturing jobs and another 50 in the North American headquarters.
The Pulaski County Special School District is considering whether to allow an independent Jacksonville school system, something leaders there have wanted for decades.
The city council in Helena-West Helena has cleared the way for police to expand patrols as part of a 24-hour curfew intended to cut down on crime. Police had been watching a 10-block area, but the city council will let police move operations into other parts of the city. Civil rights lawyers are raising questions.
A Eudora woman is out on bond Tuesday after being arrested on a first-degree battery charge in the death of her 22-month-old foster daughter, one of four foster children who died this summer.
A Little Rock teenager who was accused of abusing his authority as an operative for the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division turned himself in to Maumelle police and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of soliciting unlawful compensation.
A Pine Bluff teenager was arrested after he reportedly went to a barber shop where Jefferson County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Stanley James was getting his hair cut, and threatened to beat an eight-year-old boy’s “head in.”
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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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