News 2008-06-24 Andanh.com

Body Found In Middle Fork Of White River Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:29:50 -0500
BLACK OAK -- A Washington County man's swimming outing turned tragic Sunday evening.

Backlash May Come With Geese Culling Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:42:53 -0500
BELLA VISTA -- The Bella Vista Property Owners Association killed 11 vultures last year without residents' protest, but the association expects some backlash when it follows through with a plan to kill Canada geese that are fouling its lakes and golf courses.

Greenland District Hires Law Firm To Help Save School Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:38:18 -0500
GREENLAND -- Patrons in the Greenland School District have stepped up to the plate, donating $5,000 to hire a Fayetteville law firm to help save their schools from annexation.

Washington County Health Department Remains Closed Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:24:20 -0500
FAYETTEVILLE -- Washington County officials said they will not open the county health department again until the results of 31 blood tests are completed and the building is professionally cleaned.

War Eagle Bridge Celebrates 100 Years Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:53:40 -0500
History buffs and community leaders will celebrate War Eagle Bridge turning 100 years old Friday.

Salem Road Needs Traffic Calming Devices, Fayetteville Street Committee Says Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:53:39 -0500
FAYETTEVILLE -- Reviewing how the city decides which streets get traffic-calming devices like speed tables ought to be explored more closely, say Fayetteville aldermen.

Har-Ber Residents Oppose Condos Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:24:21 -0500
SPRINGDALE -- A condominium project in Har-Ber Meadows received a thumbs-down from the development's residents and its Property Owners Association board on Monday.

Tontitown Officials Aim To Update Ordinances Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:18:10 -0500
TONTITOWN -- A volunteer committee of Tontitown aldermen met Monday night to take the first step in attempting to update the city's codes and ordinances.

Students Help Rogers District Complete Summer Moves Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:25:19 -0500
ROGERS -- Some Rogers High School students and recent graduates still are in school, but they aren't doing homework or taking classes.

Teenager Drowns In Swimming Accident Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:42:51 -0500
ANDERSON, Mo. -- A 19-year-old Anderson resident drowned Saturday in Indian Creek, down river from Dabbs Greer Town Hole Park in Anderson.

Cedarville University Wins Solar Splash Competition Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:47:52 -0500
FAYETTEVILLE -- University of Arkansas solar boats finished third and ninth in the 15th Solar Splash competition.

Sillivan Enters Not Guilty Plea Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:02:27 -0500
A Bella Vista man pleaded not guilty to child rape and other related charges Monday in Benton County Circuit Court.

Public Meetings Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:41:40 -0500
June 24, 2008 Today 4 p.m. Siloam Springs Planning Commission -- City Hall 4:30 p.m. Fayetteville City Council Agenda Session -- Room 326, City Hall, 113 W. Mountain St.

CORRECTIONS Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:19:37 -0500
Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand LLP is a Minneapolis-based law firm representing the plaintiffs in Braun v. Wal-Mart. The firm's name was incorrect in a story in Sunday's edition.

Beebe Willing To Consider Change In Superproject Incentives Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:10:53 -0500
LITTLE ROCK -- Gov. Mike Beebe said Monday he is willing to look at changing Arkansas' system for providing incentives for "superprojects."

Pine Bluff Arsenal Completes Destruction Of Nerve Agent Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:43:32 -0500
WHITE HALL -- The final nerve agent-filled land mine has been destroyed at the Pine Bluff Arsenal, moving the site a step closer to eliminating stockpiled chemical weapons, officials said Monday.

White Hall Receives $900,000 For Water Tower Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:56:31 -0500
LITTLE ROCK -- Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., presented White Hall officials on Monday with a $900,000 federal Economic Development Administration check to be used for the construction of a water tower on the north end of the city.

University Of Arkansas At Little Rock Gets $1 Million For Nursing Scholarships Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:18:11 -0500
LITTLE ROCK -- The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $1 million endowment to pay for nursing scholarships for the next five years.

Two Die In Interstate 40 Crashes Near Biscoe Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:35:39 -0500
BISCOE -- Arkansas State Police say two people died after a pair of early morning crashes on Interstate 40 near Biscoe.

Coal-fired power plant to be operating in 2010 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:53:45 -0500
OSCEOLA -- A $1.3 billion coal-fired power plant in eastern Arkansas is expected to be completed two years from now, providing much needed electricity at affordable costs, developers say.

Super Mario Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:30:33 -0500
SPRINGDALE -- Mario Lisson can officially say his hitting slump is over.

Peaches Return After Two Years Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:02:53 -0500
The peach trees are loaded with fruit and it's a welcome sight to farmer Fred Vanzant of Springdale who lost his entire 2007 fruit crop to an unseasonably late frost.

Report: Wal-Mart Reputation Continues To Slide Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:35:42 -0500
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in 2007 continued to slip down a list of corporate reputation rankings, according to a survey.

Ford: Alltel tried in vain to buy competitors before sale Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:35:41 -0500
Editor's Note: Talk Business host Roby Brock sat down with Alltel Corp. CEO Scott Ford this week for an exclusive interview. The story that follows is based on that interview, which airs in its entirety today at 9 a.m. on Talk Business, broadcast on KFTA-Fox 24 in the Fort Smith/Fayetteville television market. A full transcript of Brock's exclusive interview with Ford is available at www.talkbusiness.net.

AERT Officer Transfers Shares Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:23:59 -0500
Marjorie Brooks, the largest shareholder of Springdale-based Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc., transferred 200,000 shares of stock to the Birkhill Group LLC.

Tiny Tots Have Large Obsessions Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:42:51 -0500
NEW YORK (AP) -- Talya Appelbaum recently had a "High School Musical" birthday party. She got special balloons and a slice of cake decorated with the spoiled Sharpay, her favorite character because "she's with Ryan."

Season Promises Some New Dangers Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:42:47 -0500
Ready to enjoy the simple pleasures of summer? Let's get ready then.

Undisciplined Students Dragging Down Education Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:42:48 -0500
One of the most disturbing aspects of public education is the lack of control teachers and principals have over their students. Most classrooms have at least one student who can consistently and effectively disrupt the entire class. So it should be no surprise to learn that teachers who left the teaching profession or transferred to a different school reported problematic student behavior as one of the top five reasons for dissatisfaction with the school they left, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

Play Editor For Fun Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:57:11 -0500
In the 1990s, Little Rock boosters worried that Bill Clinton might not put his presidential library in the city because the local newspaper was editorially unfriendly to the president.

Choose your poison: cigs or cell phones Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:12:12 -0600

Says here that heavy cell phone use is more dangerous than smoking. Never mind the traffic hazards. They're talking here about brain cancer.

The industry, needless to say, disputes this. Maybe there's a movie in all this some day.

Sweet dream: terrorist attack Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:05:50 -0600

Charlie Black, John McCain's main lobbyist man, has been caught channeling Arkansas GOP chair Dennis "What We Need is Another 9/11" Milligan.

The assassination of Pakistani political leader Benazir Bhutto in late December was an "unfortunate event," Black told Fortune, but it boosted McCain's stock in the fast-approaching New Hampshire Republican primary that he absolutely, positively had to win. The candidate's "knowledge and ability to talk about it reemphasized that this is the guy who's ready to be commander in chief. And it helped us," Black said.

Then, the longtime political pro got a bit too honest. Asked about the political impact of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Black replied: "Certainly it would be a big advantage to him."

The Monday line Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:39:50 -0600
is open.

Carjacking at Capitol Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:36:18 -0600
Scary story on Channel 7 tonight. An older woman, sitting in her car outside the state revenue office on the Capitol grounds and writing a check for car tags, was carjacked by a man who bloodied her with a blow to the head and then dumped her a few blocks away. KATV got an extensive interview. Broad daylight. No link that I can find yet.

Court closes I-30 motel Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:09:48 -0600
The city of Little Rock happily reports a judge's padlocking of the Plantation Inn on Interstate 30 as a safety hazard. A recent homicide figured in the decision.

IRS mileage rate goes up Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:10:05 -0600

I notice that the IRS has announced that the deduction rate for business mileage will go up to 58.5 cents a mile from July 1 through the end of the year.

What's your company pay for business mileage?

Monday To-Do: 999 Eyes Freakshow Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:04:44 -0600

999 EYES FREAKSHOW
10 p.m., Juanita's. $10 adv., $12 d.o.s.

Those who recall with twisted fondness or wracked nerves the phenomenon known as the Jim Rose Circus on the 1992 Lollapalooza tour or Nine Inch Nails' 1995 Downward Spiral tour are well advised not to miss 999 Eyes Freakshow. Celebrating living human oddities, the vaudeville-style show features the antics of the Half Woman, Lobster Girl, the Dancing Dwarf and Black Scorpion. Also performing is That Damned Band, which has an authentic accordion-driven repertoire of original and folk songs from traveling midway origins, who've been described as sounding like “A circus train wrecked into a hobo camp where wandering Jews and Gypsies from Eastern Europe have been learning Irish drinking songs from Tom Waits.” Eighteen and older are admitted.

—Paul Peterson

A Midsummer Night's Trip Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:21:55 -0600

When he's not opining about sports as A Boy Named Sooie, Times columnist Derek Jenkins is a huge movie geek. For a Fayetteville festival this past weekend, he recast an apparently already whacked out version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (from 1935) into a hallucinogenic short that you probably shouldn't watch in any fragile state. Actually, be warned, watching any piece of this in any state is gonna freak you the hell out.

Slow internet connections, pass on by.

BREAKING NEWS: Child found after daycare abduction Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:32:00 EST

City of Yellville meeting set Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:22:00 EST

Flooding topic of meeting Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:45:00 EST

Personnel committee to meet Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:29:00 EST

Pineville man injured Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:20:00 EST

5 a.m. lake levels Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:51:00 EST

Van Matre Senior Center menus Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:42:00 EST

One lane over Bull Shoals Dam to close Tuesday Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:31:00 EST

TLA gears up for holiday Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Mark your calendars for area fireworks shows celebrating our country's birth, starting Friday with the annual Red, White and Blue Festival at Arkansas State University Mountain Home.

Officials urge firework safety Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
As firework sales start popping up around the area for Fourth of July celebrations, local officials remind revelers to practice simple safety rules.

Indoor pool meeting set Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
The Mountain Home Indoor Pool Committee is scheduled to meet 5:30 p.m. today in City Hall to discuss an indoor pool complex and possible funding options.

Two injured in Sunday crash Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
Two people were injured Sunday in a crash.

Teen injured in motorcycle crash Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:00:00 EST
A Texas teen was injured Friday in a motorcycle crash.

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