Tuesday news developments (ongoing traffic and weather thread is below)
January 27, 2009 Leave a comment
…MAJOR ICE STORM EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ARKANSAS…
…WINTER PRECIPITATION WILL FALL IN SOUTHERN ARKANSAS…
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.
There was a fatal in the early morning hours and the roads are bad. My blog has ongoing coverage of weather and traffic information Also, remember that I have a section of winter weather internet links.
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State troopers have worked a fatal accident in the pre-dawn hours I-440.
U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln co-sponsored legislation aimed at directing federal stimulus money to struggling rural areas. The bill by Lincoln and North Dakota Democrat Kent Conrad would invest federal funds in water and infrastructure upgrades, expansion of rural health care and new power generation and transmission projects.
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport will get a $10 million federal grant to help build a taxiway.
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit over claims the state isn’t properly caring for its institutionalized residents who live at the Conway Human Development Center.
Gov. Mike Beebe rallied support for raising state tobacco taxes to pay for his nearly $88 million health care package.
A co-chairman of the Legislature’s Budget Committee plans to propose legislation to reduce the 3.85 percent cost-of-living raise that state constitutional officers and lawmakers are to receive next fiscal year.
The House of Representatives approved legislation toughening criminal penalties for domestic battery and creating a new criminal statute for strangulation and smothering, both pieces of Rep. Dawn Creekmore’s domestic violence package.
A legislative panel endorsed a bill that would allow cities to hold Internet auctions of goods confiscated by law enforcement officers once the goods are no longer needed as evidence.
Sen. Sharon Trusty, R-Russellville filed legislation that would ban the sale of novelty cigarette lighters that look like toys, cartoon characters or animals.
Sen. Shane Broadway, D-Bryant, files a bill to establish a common spring break for all Arkansas public schools.
Catepillar will cut 20,000 jobs nationwide, but the new North Little Rock facility to be constructed is apparently safe.
A teenager reportedly lost several toes after being shot in the foot by his dog when a Sunday morning hunting trip went awry in the eastern portion of St. Francis County.
A Sherwood man who shot and killed a would-be thief in 2007 is in jail after telling a Pulaski County Circuit judge that he hasn’t had a gun in 20 years. Larry Leroy Staley, 67, is barred from owning guns because he is a convicted felon. He is charged with felony manslaughter, and his trial last week ended with a hung jury.
James B. Roberts, 71, of Heber Springs, got a 15-year federal prison sentence in Little Rock today for wire fraud. He also was ordered to pay restitution of $43.4 million to the 400 or so investors in the U.S. and Central America he’d defrauded in a Ponzi scheme based on supposed currency trading.
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