Tuesday summary

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Just so you know. From this morning’s LA Times: Four arrested in plot to assassinate Obama on national TV Thursday evening.

I don’t know if you saw Michelle Obama last night, but you would have been terrible impressed. Talk about secret weapon. Cute kids too. I am sure it drove some drooling backwoods racists totally nuts.A Jacksonville man was shot dead after a 5-hour standoff in which an officer was injured. It started as a neighbor’s complaint over bottle rockets. During the course of the afternoon, nearby Jacksonville High was put on lockdown. The officer was not seriously hurt.

A proposal to ban unmarried couples living together from fostering or adopting children will to appear on this fall’s ballot.

Bond of $1 million has been set for Gary Dunn, who is accused in the killing of Nona Dirksmeyer. A state police affadavitt places Dunn inside the slain Arkansas Tech student’s Russellville apartment.

It turns out that ASU’s Les Wyatt is not the highest paid non-athletic department employee. Wyatt has contended that some items included in public reports were not income to him. System Chancellor B. Alan Sugg actually gets this most money, around $538,000.

Jane Elisabeth Stowe of Cabot will serve four years probation and pay a $500 fine as the result of a traffic accident that left another motorist partially patalyzed.

Bass Pro Shops is prepared to redevelop the vacant Pyramid arena with one of its stores, a hotel and environmental exhibits, according to materials obtained by The Commercial Appeal. The redevelopment — expected to cost more than $100 million — includes a 150,235-square-foot retail store, restaurants, an aviary and a museum.

A federal grant of nearly $600,000 has been awarded to upgrade a public television station transmitter that serves north-central Arkansas.

Starting next week, educators in Arkansas will have to pay a fee ranging from $35 to $100 to obtain, renew or add to a state teaching license.

When the Arkansas Razorbacks take on perennial powerhouse Western Illinois at Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville this Saturday, the no tobacco policy will be in full force as will the new SEC no re-entry policy.

The September issue of Vanity Fair features former Morrilton and Conway resident Julia (Flesher) Koch. The University of Central Arkansas graduate appears on page 296 in the magazine’s 69th Annual International Best Dressed List for 2008.

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