Tuesday headlines

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Stating that he is “optimistic” that reform is coming, U.S. Senator Mark Pryor unveiled plans for a health care summit to be held in Arkansas on Thursday, November 13 at the Central Arkansas Library System’s main library downtown. 

The Arkansas Health Department says its worried about and watching closely an outbreak of whooping cough in Prairie County. Infants are most at risk.

Some lawmakers are talking about bringing the issue of annual sessions back to the voters in two years.

Three Arkansas hospitals – all of them in Little Rock – are the likeliest candidates to become Level 1 trauma centers if a statewide trauma system becomes a reality, state Health Director Paul Halverson told a legislative committee Monday.

A groundbreaking issue involving four cases of imminent domain and natural gas pipelines in North Central Arkansas may be headed for the state Supreme Court after the first of the year.

An Australian mathematician has testified that survailence video of a laundramat murder in 1993 shows an assailant three inches shorter than Terrick Nooner, who is on Arkansas’ death row for the murder.

The Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling is looking into complaints against Dayspring Behavioral Services counselors and caseworkers at Dermott Elementary in Chicot County.

Beef and pork division profits pulled Tyson Foods fourth-quarter earnings up 50 percent over the same quarter last year, but might not be strong enough to see the world’s largest meat provider’s profits grow in the first quarter of 2009.

The 27-month home detention sentence for a former Wal-Mart executive convicted of fraud is over. Tom Coughlin’s home-detention sentence was to end at 5 p.m. Monday. Coughlin pleaded guilty in 2006 to five counts of aiding and abetting in wire fraud and one count of tax fraud.

Arkansas soybean farmers are expected to set a record statewide average yield of 40 bushels per acre this year and produce the state’s second-largest soybean crop.

DHL will close most of its American operations and cut 9500 jobs, some of those in Arkansas. Circuit City will reorganize under Chapter 11.

Some Benton County elected officials will be getting an 8% pay raise.

Searchers will be back on the Arkansas River this morning to recover the body of a man who accidentally fell in late yesterday afternoon.

Housing advocates are questioning Mayor Stodola’s plan to direct hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Central High district.

Little Rock’s proposed city budget still has an almost $3 million gap as user fees are going up for gyms, golf courses, and the zoo.

Crystal Hills Elementary students will attending new schools. Structural concerns concern the safety of the roof.

Former Pulaski Academy tailback and current Southern California redshirt freshman Broderick Green has Arkansas on his short list of schools he is considering a transfer to.

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