Arkansas Blog

The Morning News today examines the job future of state trooper Larry Norman indicted on a misdemeanor charge in the fatal shooting of a disabled man in Northwest Arkansas.

A pressure group has formed to continue the fight to preserve a stand-alone high school in Paron, now part of the Bryant School District.

The leaders of the House and Senate have called the legislature back next week, on Friday, for a vote to override Gov. Huckabee’s veto of an appropriation for an elementary science specialist program.

Arkansas is in the hunt.

Now they’ve pinned abusive techniques at Guantanamo (read torture) on Rumsfeld. But he ain’t qutting. And, of course, Dummy expresses full support for Rummy.

Wal-Mart reportedly is dropping gun sales in about 1,000 of its more than 3,000 U.S. stores on account of demand in those communities.

Editor and Publisher reports that Neil Young has been in the studio recording such a song with a 100-voice choir.

Murray Waas, the National Journal correspondent who is a former Arkansas Times contributor, has been breaking a lot of the news surrounding the Valerie Plame leak investigation.

On the heels of U.S. Sen. John McCain’s Monday visit to Arkansas to campaign for Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson, a conservative pundit says Gov. Mike Huckabee pales in comparison to the so-called “straight talker.”

Gary Bowman, a street preacher who stirred a bit of controversy at UA-Fayetteville back in 2002 with his frequent campus rants, prompted rules on campus speech by outside speakers.