Every spring, News-Times photographer Larry Singer gets mildly ditzy over the colors of the season.
In the last few days he has had to, while driving to various assignments, pull over to the side of the road and capture the now perfect hues before they lose their magic.
Enjoy.
University of Arkansas Head Football Coach Bobby Petrino will be available for a 15-minute group interview session at 5:45 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the El Dorado Golf and Country Club.
Petrino will be in town as part of the South Arkansas Razorback Club’s spring rally. No individual interviews will be granted.
The event is open to the public.
I’m headed to New Orleans Sunday for Mardi Gras. I’ll do my best to post photos and various accounts of the scene down there. I’m curious if crowds will be as large this year, what with the failing economy and all.
But I suspect that throngs will still show up. After all, the massive party that is Mardi Gras stops for nothing, not even a lack of money.
Here’s a video about a woman whose hair weave stopped a bullet.
Click here to view it.
According to an official news release from Texarkana College, South Ark President Dr. Alan Rasco accepted the presidency position at Texarkana College today.
He will assume his duties in Texarkana in March. Rasco will be pulling in a cool $190,000 per year there, according to the release, and he’ll be given $10,000 for moving expenses. Sounds like a nice gig to me.
Look for more in Thursday’s News-Times.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Searchers found a child’s body Wednesday near the area where a Chidester boy disappeared more than a week ago, police said.
Chief Deputy Joe Strickland of the Ouachita County Sheriff’s Office told The Associated Press that searchers discovered the body around 11:45 a.m. near the home of 3-year-old Dominick Arceneaux.
Strickland said searchers found the child’s body in a “body of water,” but he didn’t know if it was White Oak Lake. Dominick mother’s trailer sits at the edge of the water near a bar along the lake in southwestern Arkansas.
Strickland said the body has yet to be positively identified, but deputies have called off a Morgan Nick Amber Alert for Dominick, who disappeared Feb. 10.
“The body has not been positively identified … but it fits the description,” Strickland said.
Steve Frazier, a spokesman at the FBI’s Little Rock field office, said he had no information about the recovered body.
Previously, police, National Guard troops and search dogs scoured a one-mile radius around Dominick’s home without coming across anything. An extensive search of the nearby lake turned up no sign of the boy, leading an FBI agent to acknowledge investigators were “grasping at straws.”
Tuesday, police stopped motorists driving on Arkansas 24 near the boy’s home, handing out fliers and asking a battery of questions with hopes of finding the boy.
The boy’s parents, who are separated, have largely declined to comment to reporters.
News-Times photographer Larry Singer visited the South Arkansas Kennel Club Dog Show and Obedience Trials at the Highland Airport Facilities in East Camden. In addition to the above photo, click here to see what he found.
The Union County Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a student discharged pepper spray today inside the cafeteria at Strong High School, sending 10 students to the hospital. The incident was isolated to the cafeteria and affected approximately 15 students and one cafeteria worker, Union County Sheriff Ken Jones said.
Health issues related to this incident are not believed to be life threatening, Jones said.
Initial reports indicated that just one student had been taken to the hospital. Look for more details in Saturday’s News-Times.
Click here to visit the Abraham Lincoln Library. I’ve always wanted to visit. Anyone who has is welcome to tell us about it.
… I will be completely well again. I had a relapse of the bug that zapped me a week ago.
That’s why posts have been slim.
Tonight I’ll be at SouthArk covering Dr. David Miln Smith, who will present his lecture “Quality of Life, Quantity of Years.” Should be an interesting talk.
The event begins at 7 p.m. at the WPA Gym, 300 S. West Ave. It’s free and open to the public.
Dining out in El Dorado is a lot like Forest Gump’s “box of chocolates” analogy: You never know what you’re gonna get.
During a stop Friday night at a respectable local restaurant, I couldn’t help but notice that the server’s fingernails were dirtier than my own are after a weekend spent underneath the hood of my old Datsun.
The thing is, I have a handy bucket of hand cleaner nearby, so my nails are sparkling clean before I move on to other tasks.
I don’t ask or expect a lot when dining out in a small town, but clean hands are a must.
Wouldn’t you agree?
Lord only knows what the cook’s hands looked like. I shudder to think.
You would think that folks would have a heckuva lot more to do right now than quibble over President Obama’s Oval Office attire.
But, being the petty nation that we are, that’s just what’s happening.
Apparently George W. Bush’s former chief of staff, Andrew Card, pitched a huge hissy fit because Obama appeared in photos without a jacket while seated at his Oval Office desk. Others have also made comments.
According to the Huffington Post, Card told “Inside Edition” that “there should be a dress code of respect….I wish that [Obama] would wear a suit coat and tie.”
Card went on the say that Bush never entered the Oval Office without a jacket and tie.
Wrong.
Click here to visit the Huffington Post for photos of Bush without a jacket inside the Oval Office, as well as numerous other presidents, including Ronald Reagan.
What nonsense. I only agreed with a scant amount of Bush’s policies, but I never once criticized the man’s dress code. Because I’m not insane.
Andrew Card. Get a life.
One place I didn’t get to visit on my trip to D.C. was Ford’s Theater. Being a lover of all things historic, I would love to return and see this grand old building, also known as the place where President Abraham Lincoln was killed.
The theater recently underwent a multi-million renovation, and I’m sending you to the Washington Post for more.
There are photos of the box where Lincoln sat the night of his assassination; it remains mostly unchanged.
The latest government screw-up: Peanut butter distributed with emergency meals in Kentucky and Arkansas may contain salmonella linked to a nationwide outbreak, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday.
You can’t make this stuff up, folks.
The food was intended to bring relief to ice storm victims. Now, it could kill them.
Click here for more.
An error in Thursday’s News-Times lists Union County Justice of the Peace Cecil Polk as a new Norphlet city councilman.
Polk was not sworn in as a council member, as the news brief notes. He did, however, swear in new council members during the city’s January meeting.
A county ordinance passed two years ago prohibits a JP from holding any other elected office.
There will be a correction in Friday’s paper. Just a note, I did not make the error.
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