Get ready for the Wednesday Wake Up on KARK TV Channel 4 with me and Bill Vickery. We have the winners and losers around 6:40 this morning.
My morning updates 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. You can also hear my early morning headlines on Y-95 in Camden.
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State officials have seized 21 children associated with the Tony Alamo organization because they were allegedly abused and neglected. Agents went to 14 homes in the Fort Smith area but found no children. Three boys were taken from the Miller County courthouse, where they were with their parents for the other hearings. Eighteen of the children were found in two vans that were stopped in traffic by state police in Miller County.
Governor Beebe’s new school budget would increase about 2% but most of the increase in basic foundation spending would come from local property taxes. The new magic number is $5, 940 per pupil.
Lawmakers are questioning the slow pace of distributing appropriated funding for fixing up school structures statewide.
A lack of funding in the governor’s proposed budget for nine new drug courts across the state drew questions from frustrated lawmakers during budget hearings Tuesday.
The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System’s investments fell in value by $1.17 billion in the quarter that ended Sept. 30, but the system’s interim director said the plunge shouldn’t affect benefits for the system’s 25,000 retirees.
Arkansas Education Commissioner Ken James, who took office this week as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers, is leading an effort to tweak the federal No Child Left Behind law requirements during the first 100 days of the Obama administration.
Former President Bill Clinton’s nonprofit foundation raised more than $124 million last year, according to tax forms recently filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
Alltel Corp. of Little Rock revealed plans to add 130 jobs to its technical support center in Mankato, Minn. Alltel attributed the work force augmentation to strong sales and the quality of Minnesota’s work force.
Southwest Airlines Co. has agreed to purchase assets of bankrupt ATA Airlines Inc. for $7.5 million to acquire 14 landing slots at Laguardia, the nation’s most-congested airport.
The clean up continues at the AT&T Store on Hogan in Conway after an automobile crahed into the showroom. Monday Umonah was parked in a handicapped space in front of the store and tried to drive away. Umonah apparently thought he had his vehicle in reverse when it was, in fact, in drive. Two employees went to the hospital and have been released.
Regions Bank had a drive in visitor throught the front door on Race Street yesterday afternoon.
About half of the traffic accidents in the past month in Jefferson, Desha, Arkansas and Lincoln counties have been deer-related, according to Lt. Barry Saffold of the Arkansas State Police.
The Fayetteville City Council will sit on a proposed ordinance to allow up to four hens per home while types of proper chicken registry are explored.
Bart McFarland’s time as the Searcy Lions’ head football coach has apparently come to an end. McFarland, whose four-year record at Searcy was 3-37, announced it to the team.
The Pulaski County Special School District Board has asked lawyers to review administrator’s employment contracts after serious structural problems have caused the closing of two elementary schools.
A $6 million plan to build a 240-bed addition to the Pulaski County jail won’t be moving forward this year because of slack revenue projections.
In the recount for the House District 38 race, Democrat John Edwards has been declared the winner over Republican Kelly Eichler by 77 votes. Eichler won at-poll voting; Edwards won early voting and, by 69 votes, absentees.
Bus passengers will pay another 10 cents per trip for Central Arkansas Transit Authority’s basic fare next year, the agency’s board of directors voted 8-1 Tuesday. The basic bus fare will increase to $1.35 per trip.
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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