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Former Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has snagged a Tuesday evening slot at the Republican convention, right before keynoter Rudy Giuliani.

The Democrat-Gazette reports increased faculty discontent at UCA. 25 department heads met yesterday, and there was reportedly widespread agreement that President Lu Hardin should resign.

Legal questions remain regarding whether the Game and Fish Commission can share millions of dollars in natural gas proceeds with other state agencies, but state officials are kicking ideas around.

The Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System’s investments dipped in value by about $350 million last fiscal year as its domestic and foreign stock investments declined.

In a 3-2 vote, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board approved a private club license for Applebee’s restaurant in Benton, the second restaurant in the city to be approved for alcohol sales despite being in dry Saline County.

Two civil rights groups are on the attack this week saying corporal punishment teaches kids aggression and not discipline. The most recent data from the Department of Education says Arkansas has the second highest percentage of public school paddlings in the country.

Jurors will be chosen today to decide whether fallen Wal-Mart executive Tom Coughlin misrepresented facts and defrauded the world’s largest retailer into offering him a retirement package worth up to $15 million.

A judge says he is not sure whether he’ll need to hold hearings for next month for three men seeking to overturn their convictions in the brutal 1993 slayings of three boys in West Memphis.

A six-member committee reports that a shooting at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock earlier this year was an “isolated incident” on the generally safe campus.

Brandon Barber’s Lynnkohn LLC declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a move that should, for now, stave off the pending foreclosure sale of The Legacy Building scheduled for today. Lynnkohn also filed a $10 million lawsuit against Legacy National Bank, which foreclosed on $18.7 million worth of loans related to the project, and Flake & Kelley Commercial.

Today’s Democrat-Gazette reports Little Rock city officials have not forgotten about War Memorial Park and plans are still circulating to close the 18 home golf course, add a lake, or expand the zoo.

A judge refused to make public documents disclosing and relating to field test results for Riceland Foods experiments with genetically modified rice.

Computer hard drives said to hold key evidence in a state investigation of alleged fraudulent natural gas pricing by Center-Point Energy Inc. and affiliates are missing from a law firm that represents the Houston-based utility.

Tyson Foods CEO Dick Bond was a guest on CNBC’s “Mad Money” discussing the protein giant’s efforts in China. Bond says that the potential to grow in China could literally double the size of Tyson Foods’ current position in the poultry market.

A former Van Buren police officer has pleaded guilty to embezzling $51,000 from the department by keeping money confiscated from drug deals,

Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies are busy serving the first of more than 3,000 active misdemeanor and felony warrants.

A 44-year-old Little Rock man, convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday, must serve a life sentence, but only after he finishes his 105-year term, a Pulaski County Circuit judge ruled. The jury of nine women and three men took about 10 minutes to find Lloyd Chester “Chestnut” Foster guilty of the August 2007 slaying of Deron Ricardo Jackson.

Where are they now? Tavaris Jackson, a once-upon-a –time Razorback who transferred to Alabama State is now resting up for the regular season as quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.

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