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Bank fails in NWA

Somebody had to be making all those bad real estate loans we've been hearing about up in Northwest Arkansas. Could be it was ANB Financial of Bentonville, shut down today by federal regulators. Arkansas Business has details Pulaski Bank will be picking up the pieces.

Cops: pay us to 'gear up'

Word comes of a lawsuit brought today on behalf of Little Rock police officers claiming they are entitled  to overtime pay for the time spent putting on and taking off required protective gear and equipment each day. A spokesman for the attorney filing the suit said the time at issue was roughly 50 minutes to an hour daily. Across the force, at time and a half, that could add up over the course of a year, almost a 4 percent increase in payroll for those officers covered. Similar lawsuits have been filed successfully around the country.

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Friday, May 09, 2008 - 16:55:45

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Noise pirates the Western Meds will be trying to be as incongruous as possible at the Historic Arkansas Museum in just moments. As part of Second Friday Art night.

Anticipating the Little Rock Film Fest



UPDATE: Tickets for the "Fast Times" screening are available here exclusively. Craig Renaud tells me they're selling briskly. So get em while they're hot.

I'm about to go to a "Purchase Your Pass Party" for the Little Rock Film Festival, where there will be discounted beer and networking. I guess they had that idea before they came up with this one: On Tuesday, they'll be a preview of the festival at Riverdale 10, highlighted by a screening of one of the greatest cinematic achievements ever, "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," followed by a Q&A with Judge Reinhold that Times contributor Derek Jenkins will moderate. 7:30 p.m. With an after-party at Crush.


This Week's IssueCover Story
Time to judge
Date: 5/8/2008
By: John Williams

Disorder in the court? That's Skarda's charge against McGowan. /more/
>> On the ballot
>> In Little Rock, some key legislative races
>> Here come more would-be judges
>> Griffen, Gruber playing by old rules in appeals court race
>> Battle of the Titans

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The Insider
Silence is golden
Date: 5/8/2008
By: Arkansas Times Staff

Tracy Ingle - who was shot five times by a North Little Rock SWAT team during a no-knock drug raid back in January - was slapped with a gag order during his first court appearance since a story about his case was published in the Arkansas Times on March 24. /more/

Arkansas Reporter
Blues on 12th Street
Date: 5/8/2008
By: David Koon

The old Safeway store at the corner of 12th and Cedar Streets doesn't look like much these days - a peeling blue hulk of a building, marooned between the Willie Hinton Community Resource Center and the church on the next corner. /more/

Editorial
For Griffen
Date: 5/8/2008
By: Arkansas Times Staff

As Judge Wendell Griffen says, courage is not a vice (though critics seem to fault him for having it) but a virtue. /more/

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