Sunrise Tuesday happenings

Check out my Lynch at Large blog.  If there should be any important breaking news, I might have it.

https://lynchatlarge.wordpress.com/

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.

My train blog is very popular, so check out Trains for America. (It has a lot more readers from all over the world than my Lynch at Large blog,)

http://trains4america.wordpress.com/

Winners and losers tomorrow morning at around 6:45 with Bill Vickery and me on KARK TV Channel 4. Set your VCR! (or DVR, or whatever.)

Governor Beebe will address a joint legislative session today, the second day of the 87th General Assembly. He is expected to touch on the lottery administration and his plan to remove another penny from the sales tax on groceries.

The Arkansas Veterinary Medical Association will support Attorney General Dustin McDaniel’s bill that would make aggravated animal cruelty a felony on the first offense.

Governor Beebe has named Wallace Fowler of Jonesboro to the Arkansas State Police Commission.

The Department of Correction can’t accommodate non-English speakers in sex offender treatment and recently asked a judge to drop that requirement for two inmates and not order any others to the program.

Miller County Circuit Judge Joe Griffith has entered a gag order in the case of Tony Alamo, who is accused of transporting minors across state lines for immoral purposes.

Helena school superintendent Rudolph Howard has resigned, saying the board has resumed the kinds of actions which resulted in a state takeover in 2005.

The Log Cabin Democrat reports flu is showing up in Faulkner County.

Kirk Lane will be the Chief of Police in Benton despite citizen concerns about his alleged connection to the so-called 1987 train deaths of two area teenagers. The city council vote was five-five.

Arkansas farmers failed to set a single record during crop year 2008, according to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Plantings last fall of soft red winter wheat also are down 61 percent from a year ago.

Potlatch Corp. of Spokane, Wash., will sell about 24,800 acres of timberland in southwest Arkansas to an affiliate of the RMK Timberland Group, a division of Regions Bank, for about $43.3 million.

FedEx, in a vote of confidence in economic recovery, doubled its order for Boeing 777 Freighters, upping its purchase of the trans-oceanic carriers to 30 planes.

Little Rock police recovered a stolen SUV with a 17 month old sleeping in the back seat.

Verizon continues meetings with former Alltel employees at the Peabody today.