Bill Vickery and I return to KARK TV Channel 4 this morning at around 6:30. It is a bit earlier than our regular Wednesday morning love fest. Today, we reflect on yesterday’s terrible happenings.
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Law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out why Timothy Dale Johnson shot and killed Democratic Party chairman Bill Gwatney. Johnson was fired from the Conway Target earlier in the day and died in a shootout with police in Grant County. Vigil at 6 tonight at the State Capitol.
The state House and Senate Education Committees approved on Wednesday with little discussion and with only slight revision a study for funding an adequate education in Arkansas that contains no definitive amount.
Rep. Mike Kenney of Siloam Springs, says if schools don’t address the issue of athletic related travel costs and lost class time now, the Legislature will when the 2009 session convenes in January. Kenney is chairman of the House Education committee.
Federal courthouses in Batesville and Harrison, both of which were on a list of the top eight courthouses in the country in danger of being closed, have been spared for now.
The Arkansas Realtors Association reports June 2008 showed a 24.2 percent drop in home sales versus the previous. Pulaski County units sold dropped 30.6 percent. The average Arkansas home price is $164,000.
ISP Sports has acquired the multimedia rights for the University of Arkansas and has guaranteed the Razorback athletic department $73 million over the next 10 years. The North Carolina firm obtained the rights from Little Rock television station KATV Channel 7, which will remain the flagship TV station of the new network.
The Little Rock Touchdown Club lineup of speakers for its fifth year includes Super Bowl winners, a Heisman winner, national championship winners and award-winning journalists.
Emerson Climate Technologies will expand production in Batesville. Emerson plans to re-tool the former White-Rodgers facility to produce components for the air conditioning compressors. Ultimately, officials will spend a reported $120 million and add 390 jobs over the next six years.
Wells Fargo of San Francisco will acquire Century Bancshares Inc. of Texarkana, Texas. Century, with $1.4 billion in assets, operates four banking locations in Arkansas: three in Texarkana and one in Ashdown.
Wal-Mart will invest at least $1 billion in Brazil to expand its operations in Latin America’s biggest country.
The board of Jefferson Regional Medical Center has placed $300,000 in a bank trust account to reimburse Pine Bluff for demolishing old Davis Hospital on South Cherry Street.
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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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