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Wednesday Wake Up on Channel 4 and Pat Classic

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.

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

Pulaski County seems to be setting a pace of about 6,000 a day for early voting on the November General election.

Television news anchor Anne Presley is expected to make a full recovery after being viciously attacked in her home earlier this week. Police are investigating.

The Arkansas attorney general’s office rejected several proposals made by Pulaski County’s three school districts for phasing out about $70 million a year in state desegregation funding.

Over the objections of prosecutors, a federal judge on Tuesday said Tony Alamo should have immediate access to documents related to the search of Alamo’s religious compound in southwest Arkansas.

A 10 time DWI offender is out of prison after serving only one-tenth of her 11 year sentence. Sheila Blair got out of prison October 17th. The reason is because there isn’t any space for her in the Department of Correction. Now prosecutors, MADD and lawmakers will protest her release at a press conference and push for stricter laws to keep it from happening again.

After a rash of bank robberies, Central Arkansas Banks are restricting what customers wear inside. Hoods, hats and sunglasses are out of style

Arkansas State Police top budget priorities will be hring more troopers and getting additional money for rising fuel costs, Sen. Percy Malone of Arkadelphia  told Arkansas State Police Col. Winford Phillips during budget hearings that not helping the Crimes Against Children Division didn’t make sense especially with recent cases of “horrendous” abuse by foster parents.

The state police had asked for 16 more officers for that division at a cost of about $600,000 a year.

Arkansas’ unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point in September to 4.9 percent, according to the state Department of Workforce Services. 

Gas prices are nearing $2 a gallon and crude stands at around $71 a barrel, half the July price.

Jonesboro will have another major jobs announcement Friday morning.

Rheem will cut 180 jobs, or about 12 percent of its workforce, in Fort Smith because of a drop in orders.

1,400 jobs at Cooper Tire in Texarkana could be on the chopping block as the company reviews four U.S. plants for possible shutdown.

Police say an employee of Ace Glass in Blytheville was killed and another man was arrested after the business caught fire.

The Fayetteville School Board plans to replace Fayetteville High School on its current site, not remodel the existing building.

The Amtrak station in Texarkana will remain staffed with one full-time and one part-time staff person covering the morning and evening shift for trains traveling in both directions.

The Lonoke County Quorum Court adopted a resolution opposing a proposed drill-water storage facility in the Crossroads community

Dwayne Dobbins filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in his lawsuit seeking to get his name on the Nov. 4 general election ballot.

Matt Jones, the former Arkansas quarterback turned wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars, has been suspended for three games. According to ESPN.com, Jones is likely to appeal the decision.

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Wednesday Wake Up on KARK TV Channel 4

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.

Pat Lynch in the Democrat-Gazette

My column on politics and life in Arkansas sows up every Monday morning in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Look for it on the Voices page in the Arkansas section. It's also on the web for paid subscribers at the Arkansas Online site.
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