Another week, another batch of news

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.

North Arkansas is getting ready for what might be a major ice storm. There is a Winter Storm Watch for Little Rock.  If things head south today, or later this week, I will provide coverage of weather and traffic information on my Lynch at Large blog  Also, remember that I have a section of winter weather internet links.

https://lynchatlarge.wordpress.com/

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

http://trains4america.wordpress.com/

Arkansas iw winless in four games. Aubrun 73 – Arkansas 51

Gov. Mike Beebe announced late Friday that he’ll not take his cost-of-living raise for fiscal 2010.

If the Legislature raises the cigarette tax for health programs as Gov. Mike Beebe wants, a major cigarette manufacturer says low-income Arkansans will be hurt most in the wallet and others will drive across borders to buy smokes. The rally in favor is 11:30 this morning at Children’s Hospital.

Attorney General Dustin McDaniel is asking the legislature to fund two additional lawyers to handle death penalty appeals.

A bill that cleared a state House committee would allow a city owning or operating a public sewer system or sewer improvement district to ask a water authority to terminate water service to a resident who is at least 30 days late paying the city for sewer or garbage services.

Rep. Bill Sample, R-Hot Springs, has filed House Bill 1093, which would enact sweeping changes aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration, including making it a felony to provide transportation or shelter to anyone who is in the country illegally.

Supplies are running low on the study guide used by young folks to prep for the driver’s license exam.

Kris Allen, a UCA student and singer at New Life Church, is the proud owner of a Golden Ticket to Hollywood from American Idol. He auditioned at Louisville.

Allbritton Communications terminated more than 15 employees, mostly off-camera workers, at KATV, Channel 7 — its ABC affiliate in Little Rock — on Friday, according to sources close to the situation.

A Little Rock Air Force Base airman was found guilty Friday of participating in a violent gang initiation that resulted in the 2005 death of a soldier at a U.S. military base in Germany.

A Springdale man accused of letting his 8-year-old son live in squalor has been sentenced to six months in jail and fined $510.

A Conway County judge should have suppressed evidence that an officer found marijuana in the trunk of a rental car he stopped on Interstate 40 near Plumerville, because the officer lacked probable cause to stop the car, the Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday.

The School Board for the Pulaski County Special School District voted unanimously Friday against extending Superintendent James Sharpe’s contract beyond its current June 30, 2011, expiration date.

The Little Rock School District has announced plans for dividing the Woodruff Elementary School attendance zone between Stephens and Martin Luther King Magnet elementaries, beginning with the 2009-10 school year.

Little Rock police officers shot a man shortly before midnight Friday who tried to run over them in a motel parking lot, police said.

A man was wounded in a drive-by shooting outside a Little Rock house Sunday morning.