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Foreclosures were up 35 percent in November from a year earlier, but down 18 percent compared with October, a California-based tracking firm reported today.
SWEPCO plans to seek ar base rate increase in February or March. While the exact amount has yet to be determined, the move would help pay for three new power plants – including a coal-fired facility in Hempstead County.
Andrew Golden, on of the Jonesboro school shooters, will not be getting a concealed carry permit. He was turned down over the accuracy of some statements on his application. State Police released the name and city of residence which appears in the current Arkansas Times.
Andrea Lea of Russellville won’t officially take her seat as a state representative until next month, but she has introduced a bill to would flip the order of Arkansas’ new annual legislative sessions, setting the regular session in even-numbered years and the budget session in odd-numbered years. Amendment 86 allows the Legislature to make such a change.
Gov. Mike Beebe is undecided on whether to ask voters to repeal annual legislative sessions approved last month, but said the issue isn’t high on his agenda.
Susan Waggener, a math and business teacher at West Memphis High, is Arkansas’s 2008 teacher of the year. She receives a $15,000 check from the Walton Family Foundaiton.
The state has reluctantly agreed to remove a conservation easement on the Depression-era Faulkner County Courthouse, a move that will allow the county’s Quorum Court to deal with the deteriorating building as it sees fit.
The Verizon takeover of Altell will likely take place by the middle of January. The FTC has approved the deal.
A major creditor of Little Rock-based Equity Media wants the company liquidated, not restructured under the Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Arkansas nonprofits have contributed about $8 billion to the state’s economy since 2005, which helped support 189,000 jobs, according to a report released Wednesday.
A man accused of composing a text message during a fatal traffic crash has died from apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Jonesboro police say 27-year-old Michael L. Blanchard died at a hospital after shooting himself in the head in front of his mother’s home.
Helena-West Helena voters passed a measure permitting on-premises sales of mixed drinks.
The City Wire has learned that Wakarusa, a large “music and camping festival,” has relocated its venue from the Kansas City area to Ozark for its June 2009 festival. The four-day festival will be held north of Ozark at the Mulberry Mountain Ranch.
UPS will be cleaning up today after a fire at its facilities near the Little Rock National Airport last night. Extent of damages unknown.
NLRDailyNews.com reports the 2009 North Little Rock proposed City Budget showed that $217,978.14 of the funds appropriated to each Ward for drainage and other projects went un-used in 2008.
The U. S. Council of Mayors list of ready-to-go infrastructure projects that might be funded by a federal economic stimulus program apparently includes $9 million for a road to a proposed sporting goods store which might be built in Dark Hollow.
Pulaski County’s Bridge Facilities Board delayed a vote Wednesday on whether to partially close the Junction Bridge when Little Rock excavates the rock formation on its south side.
A Pulaski County Circuit judge cut a murder suspect’s bail by more than half Wednesday after two prosecution witnesses recanted their claims they’d seen him kill a man. One of the women was arrested on a perjury charge as soon as she stepped out of the courtroom.
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