Haralson, Smith named to Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame
Chuck Haralson and Ken Smith were inducted into the Arkansas Tourism Hall of Fame during the 43rd annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 18:56:00
One dead, another hospitalized after midtown shooting
The Little Rock Police Department has tweeted that officers are on the scene of a double shooting at the Midtown Park Apartments, 6115 W. Markham St., near the corner of University Avenue and Markham. Police say one person has died, and a second victim is at a hospital. The apartments were previously known as the Plaza Towers, an affordable housing development.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 17:41:00
Semantics drives discord over Metroplan vote on 30 Crossing: CORRECTION
The board of directors of Metroplan voted today to seek public comment on an amendment to its Imagine Arkansas long-range transportation plan that would allow the highway department's 30 Crossing project, to widen 7 miles of I-30 through downtown North Little Rock and North Little Rock and replace the Arkansas River bridge, to go forward.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 16:49:00
Arkansas Courts Griffen asks probe of Ark. Supreme Court and AG's office conduct
At a press conference today at the Doubletree Hotel just across from the Pulaski County Courthouse, Pulaski County Fifth Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen and his attorneys announced that he has asked the Arkansas Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission to investigate the conduct of the entire Arkansas Supreme Court, and asked the director of the Arkansas Committee on Professional Conduct to investigate the conduct of Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and several others in the AG's office, related to what Griffen and his attorneys claim were forbidden ex parte conversations between the Supreme Court and the AG's office.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 16:34:00
New charges added in $9 million tax collection scam
The U.S. attorney's office in Little Rock announced today an expansion of charges in a case first announced last year in which people impersonating IRS agents tricked people into sending them almost $9 million through wire cash transfers.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 15:32:00
Former detention officers plead guilty to conspiring to assault juveniles
The U.S. attorney's office in Little Rock announced today that two former supervisors at the White River Juvenile Detention Center in Batesville had pleaded guilty to conspiring to assault juvenile inmates.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 15:15:00
Wednesday's open line
Here's the Wednesday open line and a news roundup.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 14:46:00
State Supreme Court denies stay of Kenneth Williams' execution
The Arkansas Supreme Court in brief orders today denied petitions by Kenneth Williams for a stay in his scheduled execution at 7 p.m. Thursday.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 12:06:00
Trump targets national monuments, calls them 'massive federal land grabs'
President Trump today signed an executive order that could lead to removing protection from hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands declared national monuments.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 10:43:00
CANCELED Free screening tonight of death penalty documentary CANCELED
UPDATE: This event has been canceled. "The Gathering," a documentary about A Witness to Innocence, an organization of exonerated former death row prisoners who meet regularly to talk about their experiences, will be shown free at 6 p.m. tonight in the East Room of the downtown branch of the Central Arkansas Library System.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 09:31:00
GOP health care: Good for Congress, but ....
A new Republican plan to replace Obamacare contains an enormous piece of hypocrisy — better coverage for Congress and staff than provided the rest of the country.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 09:20:00
ACLU asks to join lawsuit on Fayetteville civil rights ordinance
The ACLU of Arkansas has moved to join a lawsuit aimed at preventing Fayetteville from extending civil rights protection to LGBT people.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 08:15:00
Later today: More on the matter of Judge Wendell Griffen
Later today: A news conference related to Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen, removed from a lawsuit over execution drugs and referred to a judicial disciplinary committee for taking part in a death penalty protest on the day he entered an order in the drug case.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 08:01:00
Death notes: The executions of Jack Jones and Marcel Williams
A traditional rite of state executions is the release of logs kept by prisons officials of the last hours of condemned people, witness lists and orders of "discharge" from prison. Here they are.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 07:30:00
Arkansas Cinema Society makes a splash in Forbes
Reading this morning includes an extensive article in Forbes on-line about the new Arkansas Cinema Society, through an interview with Jeff Nichols, the Little Rock native filmmaker who's a driving force behind the new film festival.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 07:16:00
Jay Dickey remembered for a change of heart on gun research
Former U.S. Rep. Jay Dickey was well-remembered in a New York Times obituary today. The reason: gun policy.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 18:18:00
Tuesday line
Here you go.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 16:39:00
San Francisco judge blocks executive order defunding "sanctuary cities"
A U.S. District Court Judge in San Francisco has issued a preliminary injunction that blocks major parts of a presidential executive order that would cut federal grants to cities that refuse to assist federal immigration officials in apprehending undocumented immigrants.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 16:12:00
Arkansas Courts Judicial Discipline admonishes Judge over DWI, reckless driving conviction
David Sachar with the state Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission announced today that a letter of admonishment has been issued to Fifth Judicial Circuit Judge William "Bill" Pearson, who blew through a DWI checkpoint near Clarksville in January before leading police on a short pursuit until a State Trooper disabled his truck by running into it.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 15:31:00
Four years after installation, solar panels are connected to VA
In August 2013, the company installing solar panels at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock predicted power would be turned on within the month.
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 15:31:00
Northwest Arkansas Group hopes to move giant telescope to Northwest Arkansas
A non-profit group devoted to science education has announced their plan to move one of the largest refracting telescopes in the America to Northwest Arkansas. They are currently fundraising to cover the moving costs for the vintage telescope, which they hope to make the centerpiece of a science and technology center.
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What does the word ‘witness’ mean in an Arkansas execution?
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College of Education, Health Professions to Honor Alumni, Former Dean
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Tune into Daybreak at 5:55am Thursday morning for the great story of Bentley and Haleigh! https://t.co/3VLI8JcsmN
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