J.W.’s News Update: Tuesday January 10, 2012

The Texarkana Arkansas Police Department is searching for a missing juvenile runaway. Authorities describe 14 year old Corona Cole McNeal as a white male around 5'7" tall and around 120 pounds. He could possibly be riding a blue bicycle and carrying a black pack. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of McNeal are urged to phone Texarkana Arkansas Police at (903) 798-3154 or Texarkana Area Crimstoppers at (903) 793-stop.

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Texarkana Arkansas Police have arrested a 19 year old suspect in connection with a recent armed robbery outside a fast food restaurant in the 700 block of East 7th Street. Authorities say Rashee Wyrick is jailed at the Bi-State Justice Center and faces charges of armed robbery.

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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has endorsed the U.S. Senate bid of Texas LT. Governor David Dewhurst. Huckabee says that Dewhurst shares his views both fiscally and socially as a conservative. Dewhurst is one of a crowded field of candidates hoping to replace Senator Kay Bailey Hutcheson who is retiring from the U.S. Senate after this year.

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The Arkansas Municipal League is preparing to start its winter conference. The meeting begins tomorrow in Little Rock and runs through Friday at the Peabody Hotel and Statehouse Convention Center in the capital city.

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Texas Governor Rick Perry is sidestepping todays New Hampshire Republican Primary. Perry is staking his hopes on reviving his struggling Presidential Campaign with a good showing in the South Carolina Primary which will
be held on January 21^st.

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In Sports:

The Alabama Crimson Tide are enjoying their latest National Championship of College Football with last nights 21-0 Shutout of LSU in the BCS Championship game played at the Louisiana Superdome.

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