Car on fire at SWLR gas station

According to reports, fully involved. I-30 and Geyer Springs. The car is reportedly parked at the gas pumps and is on fire. Another interesting drive home. 4:40 PM

Filed under: Little Rock

Monday first headlines

My column in today’s Democrat-Gazette is about press coverage of the Anne Pressly case, the public’s right to know, and  Curtis Vance’s right to a fair trial. Find my insightful commentary on the Voices page in the Arkansas section.

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.

Just in case some of my closer friends are wondering, for the second straight year there will be no Lyncho Christmas party. Marie and I regret that 2008 sucks.

Did I mention that I am still looking for my third job?

I am blogging throughout the day (and I will be at my desk much of today). Bookmark the Lynch at Large blog.

http://lynchatlarge.wordpress.com/

My passenger train blog is very popular. You will be surprised at the happenings on Trains for America.

http://trains4america.wordpress.com/

Environmental regulators will allow work to resume on coal-fired power plant in southwest Arkansas while an appeal is pending on the plant’s air permit.

Another 200 Soldiers with the Arkansas Army National Guard’s 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are in Mississippi after having served in Iraq since late March.

a countywide quarter-cent sales tax to promote economic development will go before Independence County voters Tuesday. Jefferson County puts a half-cent for economic development on the ballot tomorrow.

Henderson State football player Louis West is out of the hospital after being treated for a gunshot wound to the neck during a scuffle at the Arkadelphia Country Club. A press conference later today will announce a couple of arrests.

An attorney for former Jefferson County judge Jack Jones, who was charged with nine felony counts in February after a more than two year investigation by the Arkansas State Police, wants a special judge to order the two investigators to submit to interviews.

It’s Oklahoma and Florida for the BCS national championship on Jan. 8.
No New Orleans Bowl for ASU. Troy on top 35 – 9.
Pulaski Academy over Helena 35 – 32
Bentonville 32 – Southside 20
The Broyles Award Luncheon is tomorrow at the Doubletree.

Filed under: Arkansas