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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Arkansas continues to have one of the nation’s highest poverty rates and lowest median household incomes. The American Community Survey, shows 17.9 percent of Arkansans subsist on earnings beneath the federal poverty line in 2007. Workers in Arkansas brought home a median income of $38,134.
Nigel Haskell is in critical condition after being shot as a heated argument ends in gunfire at a Little Rock McDonald’s Tuesday afternoon. That store employee was caught in the middle of an apparent domestic dispute while trying to be a Good Samaritan. The suspect fled the scene in a blue Nissan Pathfinder.
A Jacksonville man who engaged authorities in a five-hour-long standoff before being shot and killed Monday night has been identified as 45-year-old Steve Smith.
The trial of Felix Badillo Tapia of Brownsville, Texas, is scheduled to begin today in St. Francis County. Tapia is charged with four counts of negligent homicide following the Nov. 25 accident on Interstate 40 in which the bus he was driving crossed the center lane.
A 16 year old Wynne man is charged with animal cruelty, a misdameanor, after setting a kitten on fire.
State Senate President Pro Tem Jack Critcher, D-Batesville, is acting governor this week while both Governor Beebee and Lt. Gov. Halter are in Denver.
The Sierra Club says the USDA is breaking the law with its apparent support by providing loans for two coal fired power plants being developed in Arkansas.
The number of Arkansas public school students enrolled in Advanced Placement courses jumped in the 2007-08 school year, as did the scores they took on the exams. Also, SAT participation and scores are down a bit.
Powered by the opening of the new 442-student Chenal Elementary, the Pulaski County Special School District recorded an upswing in enrollment that has largely dropped over the past two decades.
The Arkansas Department of Education is investigating the Nevada School District after getting complaints from parents. They said that teachers used white out to change students’ grades, to hold them back a year.
Little Rock City Directors Dean Kumpuris and Brad Cazort will face no opposition in this November’s election. Two potential opponents for Joan Addcock failed to produce enough signatures. Director Gene Fortson will be opposed by Glen Schwartz and Ross Philips.
It is a five way race to unseat North Little Rock Mayor Pat Hayes.
The filing period for municipal offices is closed. As expected, former Arkansas Attorney General Steve Clark is one of five challengers to incumbent Fayetteville Mayor Dan Coody.
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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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