Tuesday Pat Classic

My newscasts are on twice every hour at K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee, Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7. AND, 100kw.Y-95 in Camden. You can hear my morning updates all over south Arkansas on this MONSTER FM powerhouse.

The radio show is on at 9, so tune in.

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

Tomorrow, it’s the Wednesday Wake Up on KARK TV Channel 4. Join Bill Vickery and I for the week’s winners and losers at around 6:45.

Congress should not return to campaigning until an agreement on a financial market bailout is reached, according to Congressman Mike Ross, who represents the fourth district.  All four of Arkansas’ congressional representatives voted “yes” to the $700 billion package.

Tim Yeager, associate professor of finance in the Sam Walton College of Business says, “the government would be better off purchasing preferred shares of large financial institutions in crisis. If Wall Street lending truly freezes up over the next several days or months, this bill or another one can be passed by Congress to help alleviate the crisis. So at this point, the rejection of the Wall Street bailout bill is a good thing.” Craig Rennie, associate professor of finance in the Walton College, agreed that passage of the bill in its current form would not have been in the country’s best interest.

The United States Attorney General has named a prosecutor to investigate whether former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, other Bush administration officials or Republicans in Congress should face criminal charges in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, including Bud Cummins of Arkansas’ Eastern District.

More bad news from Wall Street could help push the state economy overall into recession and make it harder for Arkansans with blemishes on their credit to get loans, Arkansas’ chief economist said Monday. “It’s the wrong direction for recovery,” said John Shelnutt, economist for state Department of Finance and Administration

Gov. Mike Beebe pumped his own gas Monday at a downtown Little Rock gas station during an event promoting biofuel. Beebe was one of about 60 people who filled their tanks with E-85 ethanol, a mix of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline, at Go Green Biofuels.

The parents of four girls taken from the Tony Alamo facility in southwest Arkansas waived their right to a hearing on the state’s decision to remove those children, allowing the girls to remain in foster care three more weeks. Alamo will be returned to Arkansas this week

Attorney General Dustin Mc-Daniel recommends that property owners who reach age 65 or are disabled are entitled to a cap on their taxes even if they fail to apply until later.

Monday, Oct. 6 is the deadline for registering to vote in the Nov. 4 general election.

Hearings continue for two of the men accused of killing three second grade West Memphis boys in 1993. The state Crime Lab director says that, when Damien Echols was arrested, a necklace he was wearing bore traces of blood whose type matched one of the victims, as well as himself and another defendant.

A federal judge has denied Oklahoma’s motion for a preliminary injunction to stop 13 Arkansas poultry companies from disposing of bird waste in the Illinois River watershed.

Two El Dorado convenience store operators stand charged in one of the first criminal cases targeting the sale of untaxed tobacco products

The Arkansas Horse Council wants U.S. lawmakers to bring horse slaughterhouses back to the U.S. They were outlawed last year. The council says there are too many horses in Arkansas and many aren’t taken care of properly. They say slaughtering is the humane thing to do.

The Arkansas Board of Parole is recommending that Earnest Murphy, serving life in prison for the 1972 murder of David Hartwick, should be eligible for parole. Murphy recently underwent surgery for cancer.

The Care Foundation of Springdale has donated a half million dollars to help fund development of the northwest satellite campus of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Baptist Health System will begin managing Stuttgart Regional Medical Center this week

Bobby Petrino says this isn’t time to panic, it’s time to stick to beliefs, stick to fundamentals and building the program, and just keep grinding and working hard. Arkansas lost its last two games to Alabama and Texas by a combined 77 points.

Barbara Burrows of Hughs is safe in Chicago after being kidnapped Saturday morning. The FBI says no arrests have been made.

Pulaski Count¥’s budget committee reports that proposed budget expenses exceed projected revenue by about $1 million.

Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola is hiring a consultant to help keep the Arkansas State Fair in Little Rock. 

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Monday Pat Classic

My column is in today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette so check me out on the Voices page in the Arkansas section. It is particularly nasty. A bit of Classic Pat.

My newscasts are on twice every hour at K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7.

AND, the entire staff and management at the Lyncho Intergalactic Headquarters welcome 100kw.Y-95 in Camden. You can hear my morning updates all over south Arkansas on this MONSTER FM powerhouse.

The radio show is on at 9, so tune in.

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

TODAY at The Little Rock Touchdown Club

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BOB TEBOW

Father of current Florida Gator QB and 2007 Heisman Trophy Winner Tim Tebow

 Bob and his wife Pam were missionaries in the Philippines where Tim was born in 1987. He is the founder of the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association in the Philippines and is a graduate of Western Seminary and of the University of Florida. Like all of their children, Tim Tebow was home schooled by his parents until college, but Tim also played football for a public high school. Last season he became the first sophomore in college football history to win the Heisman Trophy. The Tim Tebow Bill, which allows home schooled children to participate in extracurricular activities in public schools, is currently pending in Alabama. The Razorbacks play the Gators this Saturday in Fayetteville. 

LET’S GIVE BOB A BIG TOUCHDOWN CLUB WELCOME TO LITTLE ROCK!

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The Razorback’s loss to Texas and other SEC Games will be reviewed, as well as 

weekend action from other Arkansas colleges 

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Congressional leaders and the Bush administration said they have reached a tentative agreement on a $700 billion rescue plan for the nation’s financial system.

Arkansas’ delegation in the House split 2-on a bill to pump $61 billion in government spending into the economy. Congressmen Snyder and Ross voted “aye.” Representatives Boozman and Berry were “nays.”

The Senate approved unanimously a bill to force a plan to remove thousands of trailers from the Hope Municipal Airport. Nearly 20,000 mobile homes and travel trailers are parked on airport property, where many have been for three years.

Gov. Beebe added Craighead, Lawrence, Madison, Newton and Saline counties to the list of state disaster declarations for Hurricane Ike.

In the first eight months that charitable bingo gambling was legal in Arkansas, operators purchased about 110 million playing cards, an amount equal to 39 cards for every man, woman and child in the state, the state Department of Finance and Administration says.

The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas warns that you might want to add Cave City to your handy list of speed traps.

A pilot program that has transformed school buses into mobile virtual classrooms in one Arkansas school district is worth expanding across the state, coordinators say. The idea, launched in April 2007 in the Sheridan School District, equips students with laptop computers and iPods and allows them to take online math and science courses while traveling to and from school.

Parkway Bank of Rogers has been ordered to cease and desist “unsafe or unsound banking practices,” by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

A Miller County circuit judge Friday found probable cause to believe two girls taken into custody during a raid on Tony Alamo’s religious compound last week had been abused, and he ordered them to remain in foster care for at least two more weeks. A Federal Grand Jury will convene this week to consider the Alamo case.

Donald Case is facing charges of capitol murder after a Saturday evening shooting at Fifth and Main in North Little Rock. It was murder number seven for North Little Rock this year. The victim’s name has not been released.

Donald Williams of Batesville is under arrest on suspicion of setting fire to a tractor and stealing several other pieces of farm equipment in Independence County.

A Memphis judge dropped 4-year-old homicide charges against two West Memphis police officers accused of killing a passenger in a fleeing vehicle.

Little Rock National Airport is putting more effort into wildlife control after a flock of Starlings collided with a small commercial jet on takeoff last month

The Zoo Master Plan is being revamped with some hope of acquiring Ray Winder Field. Director Stacy Hurst is in charge of the task force.

Little Rock is looking at ways to keep the Arkansas State Fair and Livestock Show from moving to new larger facilities outside of town.

The developer of the Park Avenue shopping center in midtown Little Rock has pushed the opening back about six months, till March 2010.

Customers planning to ride with Little Rock-based Cosmopolitan Tours received letters that the company has shut down, and that they might not get refunds.

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Lyncho summary for Friday 9/26

A SPECAIL ALERT for Lyncho fanatics. NEXT WEEK’S Arkansas Times will run a story on my 25^th. Anniversary in Little Rock. Yes, he does pose a loaded question. It is on newsstands NEXT THURSDAY.

Look for my column in Monday’s Democrat-Gazette. It was truly inspired and you may read it on the Voices page in the Arkansas sectin.

My morning headlines are on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7. AND, the entire staff and management at the Lyncho Intergalactic Headquarters welcome 100kw.Y-95 in Camden. You can hear my morning updates all over south Arkansas on this MONSTER FM powerhouse.

The radio show is on at 9.

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

The proposal for a $700 billion federal bailout of financial institutions has hit a roadblock and tonight’s presidential joint press conference in Oxford Mississippi is in doubt.

By an 11-10 vote, the Governor’s Commission on Global Warming recommends that no new coal-fired power plants be built in Arkansas until at least 2020, when new technology could reduce carbon emissions.

Mike Huckabee will debut his Fox News show this weekend.  It will be titled “Huckabee” and will debut at 7 pm on Saturday, Sept. 26. He’s back at 7 on Sunday night too.

Tony Alamo is under arrest in Flagstaff, Arizona. Federal agents took him into custody without incident yesterday afternoon on charges of illegally transporting minors across state lines.

Faulkner County authorities believe many as 15 killings could be under investigation in a case related to discovery of human remains near Jacksonville. Although they are being tight-lipped, the suspected killer is not believed to be at large.

Jason Baldwin, one of three men convicted in the 1993 killings of three West Memphis second-grade boys, unsuccessfully urged his attorneys to allow him to testify during his trial 14 years ago. Baldwin’s hearing for a new trial continues in Jonesboro.

A judge has ordered a measure allowing alcohol sales in Sharp County off of the November ballot. Circuit Judge Phil Smith issued an order saying that signatures gathered by supporters of the measure were invalid.

It looks official now. A 21st century high school will be built on the current site of Fayetteville High School.

The Wall Street Journal reports that activist shareholders of Dillard’s are pushing the Dillard family to relinquish control of the department store chain by selling their Class B shares.

Despite the credit crisis that looms over the U.S. economy, Verizon Wireless’ $28.1 billion deal to purchase Little Rock-based Alltel Corp. remains on schedule.

Shareholders have approved the merger of Delta and Northwest into the country’s largest airline. The final step is federal approval.

Arkansas Times Blog is reporting a number of reports circulating in the local blogosphere concerning the gathering of a thousand RV’snorth of the River. Included in the complaints is a Transit rubber wheel trolley stalled in gravel, and firefighters unhappy about being pressed into water service for the event.

Family members and friends of people buried at Haven of Rest Cemetery want the state’s Cemetery Board to help restore and maintain the 76-year-old graveyard after years of neglect.

Representatives of the Little Rock School District and the Classroom Teachers Association are at an impasse in their negotiations over teacher salary increases and insurance premium payments for this school year.

Arkansas legislators were urged Thursday to fund Garvan Woodland Gardens in the state budget. Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola thinks it might help other cities.

Shawn Fields, on parole for a St. Francis County murder, is now under arrest for a shooting at a Fort Smith bar.

Two teenagers were found delinquent in Saline County juvenile court for participating in the robbery and killing of a 24-year-old Sherwood man in 2007. The pair participated in luring Nicholas Jones to an isolated part of town on Aug. 5, 2007, where he was shot and robbed. The teenagers, who were 14 and 15 at the time, will serve an indefinite sentence in youth facilities and may be sentenced as adults later.

A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former Arkansas prison inmate who contracted tuberculosis while incarcerated at the Varner Unit in Lincoln County.

Prosecutors charged Donald Warren Sr., a Pine Bluff attorney serving as special judge, with abuse of office and forgery, accusing him of fraudulently ordering the sheriff to assist in recovering a lawn mower for the judge from a pawnshop. 

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Thursday Pat Classic

My morning headlines are on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM with Don Burns at 93.3 and 100.7. AND, the entire staff and management at the Lyncho Intergalactic Headquarters welcome 100kw.Y-95 in Camden. You can hear my morning updates all over south Arkansas on this MONSTER FM powerhouse.

The radio show is on at 9.

KSMD 99.1 FM – Searcy/Batesville

KWCK 1300 AM – Searcy

KAPZ 710 AM – Bald Knob/Augusta

KAWW 1370 AM – Heber Springs/Clinton

While acknowledging the need to act quickly to aid imperiled financial institutions, Sen. Mark Pryor says lawmakers with a “trust issue” are hesitant to back the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout plan. Pryor says colleagues were “bulldozed” into approving terrorism- and war-related legislation.

Bingo operators, mostly from veterans groups in the Fort Smith area facing competition from Oklahoma bingo and casinos, demanded that the state stop taxing and regulating the game.

Attorneys for the three Pulaski County school districts and black students on Wednesday tweaked a set of conditions they will offer to the state as the basis for settlement of the 25-year-old school desegregation lawsuit. That is apparently in addition to the settlement entered into in1989.

A legislative committee signed off on the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System’s proposed $725,000-a-year contract with a Chicago firm for general investment, real estate investment and alternative-investment consulting services.

Mississippi Board of Education Chairman William Jones told a panel of Mississippi lawmakers that he is worried that Arkansas is going to leave Mississippi in the dustJones appeared with state Superintendent of Education Hank Bounds to make a pitch for next year’s budget funding.

Arkansas judges are underpaid, putting the bench in danger of attracting inferior legal minds, Arkansas Supreme Court justices told a committee of businessmen, lawyers and bankers

Several insurance underwriters rejected Fort Smith in its effort to obtain litigation coverage because of the city’s recent legal problems, city Purchasing Manager Alie Bahsoon informed city directors.

The Hanesbrands plant in Clarskville, Arkansas escapes another workforce reduction. Hanesbrands will cut back over 8,000 jobs worldwide.

Trading in shares of Pilgrim’s Pride, the nation’s largest chicken producer, was halted late Wednesday after the stock fell 38 percent and saw volume at more than six times its normal level.

A state emergency management spokesman says a worker at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant in Russellville suffered burns Wednesday after anhydrous ammonia leaked out of an engine room.

The attorney who represented Jason Baldwin, one of the West Memphis Three, in 1993, said he could have called alibi witnesses but they were unreliable.  A hearing to determine whether Baldwin gets a new trial continues today.

The federal judge who initially sent Damien Echols’ appeal back to state courts has recused from the case. In a one-sentence order filed Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge William R. Wilson Jr. said that “some of the principals in this case are long-time acquaintances and friends of mine.”

A Benton truck driver who smoked crack cocaine before a crash that killed five people in Arkansas is headed to prison for 35 years. Fifty eight-year-old Roy Lee Jordan pleaded guilty to five counts of negligent homicide stemming from the July 2007 accident.

Jacksonville police and the Pulaski County sheriff’s office searched separate sites Wednesday for two bodies after a man reportedly told Faulkner County authorities that he killed two women, and then led investigators to where he said he left the remains. Jacksonville police found decomposed remains, so far Pulaski County has come up empty.

An El Dorado prosecutor says he won’t file charges against a pregnant woman who shot and killed her husband in July. He calls it self-defense.

The state Court of Appeals overturned the homicide conviction of a Maumelle woman whose 2-month-old son died after she left him home alone and went out to party at a nightclub. The court ordered a new trial for LaKeela Webb, ruling that Maumelle police improperly entered her home and removed evidence without a search warrant.

A circuit judge made a mistake when she terminated the parental rights of a Drew County woman primarily because the woman moved several times, the state Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.

A small earthquake was detected Wednesday morning about 10 miles west of Heber Springs. The magnitude 2.5 quake was at about 9:30 a.m. near the southern borders of Cleburne and Van Buren counties and the northern border of Faulkner County.

Six White County retailers have been cited for selling cigarettes to minors. tate law says no one under 18 can buy tobacco products, and no one over 18 can buy them for or give them to minors.

The Shoppes at Shiloh Creek, an upscale shopping center will open late next year on 68 acres at the northwest corner of Interstate 40 and Weir Road, in Russellville.

Bikes, Blues and Barbeque kicked off  in Fayetteville. There must be a thousand motor homes parked on the Arkansas River at North Little Rock. Depot Days Saturday in Newport. There’s the Wing Ding Festival in Jacksonville.  It’s Cottin Pickin’ festival at Caldwell.

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