The day after update

The Wednesday Wake-Up is on KARK TV Channel 4. Bill Vickery and I will have winners and losers at around 6:45.

My morning updates are on K-106.3 The Greatest Hits of All Time with John Lee and Spirit FM at 93.3 and 100.7. You can also hear my early morning headlines on Y-95 in Camden.

I occasionally add items of state and local interest on my Lynch at Large blog  My thread on the Inauguration is entertaining reading.

https://lynchatlarge.wordpress.com/

My train blog is very popular, so check out Trains for America.

http://trains4america.wordpress.com/

Governor Beebe will reportedly name a new chairman for the state Democratic party. Vince Insalaco might be high on the list.

The legislature will be dealing with the lottery, animal cruelty and taking the sales tax off groceries. Rep. Allen Kerr of Little Rock, files HB1119, which would limit young peoples’ use of cell phones while driving.

A judge upholds the removal of 18 children from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, saying the children were endangered by the ministry’s history of punishing misbehavior with beatings and of allowing underage marriages.

The University of Central Arkansas will test an emergency mass-notification system Monday, almost three months after two students were fatally shot on campus.

Fewer passengers flew out of Arkansas’ eight airports with commercial service in 2008, Four airports – Hot Springs, Harrison, Jonesboro and El Dorado – lost all commercial service in June. The number of boarding passengers at Texarkana dropped 15 percent, while passengers boarding at Fort Smith Regional Airport fell 12.2 percent. Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, saw a 5.8 percent decline. The northwest Arkansas airport was down 4.5 percent.

Regions Financial Corp. unexpectedly reduced the value of its banking operation, leading to a $6.24 billion fourth-quarter loss.

BNSF Railway of Fort Worth, Texas will begin replacing almost 30 track miles of rail and 15,000 railroad ties in its Thayer subdivision between Teed, Mo., and Memphis, Tenn.

The parent of Clear Channel Communications Inc is cutting 1,850 jobs as the nation’s largest owner of radio stations grapples with the economic meltdown. That is about 9 percent.

Snap-On Equipment of Conway has made some layoffs but does not say how many.

Three buildings have burned in Faulkner County just hours after a burn ban was announced.

Trial has been delayed for a man charged with capital murder for a 1992 slaying at an El Dorado flower shop. James Clemons was to have been tried this week, but the case was pushed until March 16.

Authorities say a fatal fire in a Fort Smith apartment may have been fueled by an oxygen tank the victim was using.

Little Rock firefighters were called to a trailer house fire on Baseline Road around 5, which quickly became two trailers on fire.

Police warned a Sherwood homeowner three times not to shoot at people on his property before he killed a would-be thief in October 2007, a Pulaski County jury heard Tuesday.

The Pulaski County sheriff’s office closed its investigation into the June 16 death of a North Little Rock woman at the Pulaski County jail, concluding that the 39-year-old woman committed suicide.

Witnesses say a contract worker for the city of Little Rock had to be revived by co-workers Tuesday after being electrocuted at a job site.

New speed limits have been posted around the Interstate 630/Interstate 430 interchange, the first evidence the site is about to become a big construction zone.

The old columns from the former Carnegie Little Rock Public Library building on Seventh and Louisiana  have been recovered and will soon be installed near the Main Library in the River Market.