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

Little Rock police believe Anne Presley’s credit card was used at a gas station on Ninth Street after her attack, but other clues are scarce. The Little Rock television anchor continues in a local hospital.

Foreclosures in Arkansas increased 40 percent from August to September, based on statistics released today by RealtyTrac.

After listening to testimony that Tony Alamo has ordered beatings, taken young girls as wives and controls what an FBI agent described as a “vast,” tightly controlled organization, a federal judge Wednesday ordered the evangelist held without bail pending his trial on sex charges, saying he wanted to “assure the safety of the community” and make sure Alamo doesn’t flee.

The head of the Teachers Retirement System, Paul Doane, has offered to resign over lawmakers complaints about his travel expenses.

The head of Arkansas’ flagship university, University of Arkansas Chancellor G. David Gearhart, says the state must do everything it can to encourage more students to seek bachelor’s degrees — including possibly offering illegal immigrants the lower tuition rates given to residents.

State lawmakers question why the Department of Environmental Quality is asking for only four new regulatory positions to monitor Fayetteville Shale natural gas drilling, some saying that is not enough.

State Rep. Dan Greenberg plans to introduce a bill in next year’s legislative session that would exempt felony drunken driving offenders from early release because of jail overcrowding.

The state Game and Fish Commission will spend $2.1 million from its gas leasing windfall to buy 1,825 acres in Desha County for a new wildlife management area.

Little Rock’s board of Directors is asking the legislature to increase the per-day payment for state inmates in the county jail by $23 a day to $51.

The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has tacked on another $14,000 in lawyers fees the Watson Chapel School District owes plaintiffs lawyers while it continues an appeal of a decision in favor of students black arm band protest. Watson Chapel says it will go all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Total legal fees for plaintiffs so far equals about $60,000

Bentonville’s high school may begin a split day schedule by 2011 if student growth trends continue.

A lawsuit challenging the state’s school choice law was filed in federal court Wednesday by parents in four west-central Arkansas school districts, claiming their children are being forced to attend school in Malvern.

St. Francis County Sheriff Deputies will soon be patrolling I-40 after the Quorum Court appropriated $116,000.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Wednesday that it plans to get tougher on suppliers that violate the company’s workplace standards and fail to comply with the environmental laws and regulations of their home countries.

Firefighters say one person died in an evening blaze at the Rosehaven retirement home in Jonesboro.

A letter to the FCC and only made public yesterday reveals that tight credit markets prompted the owners of Alltel to approach Verizon about a buyout.

The Democrat-Gazette reports five members of the Pulaski County Quorum Court have reservations about the Sheriff’s plan to add 240 new beds to the county jail.

The Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association has approved an agreement for the school year. The School Board will consider it tonight.

Little Rock’s River Market Design Review Committee reversed itself this week and approved a variance request for a proposed seven-story Aloft hotel downtown.

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