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Channel 7 News

January 10, 2011 by · Comments Off on Channel 7 News 

Channel 7 News, Arkansas State Police report on road conditions statewide: Arkansas State Troopers began to receive their first calls for sleet and snow begins to cover the southern and southwestern Arkansas roads since 8:30 this morning (Sunday, January 9th).

Throughout the day the snow and ice continued to move north covering most of the roads and making driving conditions dangerous as far north as the Scott County.

In central Arkansas, particularly the Greater Little Rock area, Troopers are reporting hazardous conditions of snow, sleet and ice covering the roads. More than two dozen traffic accidents were reported on U.S. and state roads in Pulaski, Saline, Faulkner and Lonoke counties of 4 PM today. Expectations were for the number of accidents increase as temperatures fall and snow continues to fall throughout the evening.

By late afternoon the weather had deteriorated the I-40 Bridge on the White River to become skillful and dangerous. Westbound traffic along I-40 west of the bridge had slowed this afternoon because of several crashes.

Traffic along I-30 west of Saline County in Hot Spring and Clark counties is moving slowly due to multiple weather related accidents. State police in this area, the traffic may be blocked for several hours while salvage crews remove wrecked vehicles from the highway median and shoulders. The State Police encourages drivers to avoid travel in this evening of snow in most areas of the state.

Source: http: //www.katv.com/Global/story.asp? S=13811551

Harold Dow

August 22, 2010 by · Comments Off on Harold Dow 

Harold Dow, Emmy Winner, CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and referred to the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the attacks of September 11, has died. He was 62.

Dow died suddenly on Saturday morning in New Jersey, network spokeswoman Louise Bashi said. He lived in Hackensack, but was not immediately clear if he had been home.

Dow had been a correspondent for “48 Hours” since 1990. His 40 years with the network and its affiliates also include reporting for “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

A “48 Hours” report on fugitive earned him a George Foster Peabody Award. He also won five Emmys, including coverage for the work of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the movement of U.S. troops in Bosnia in 1996.

“Insatiably curious, was the happiest when he was on the road deep into a story,” Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of “48 Hours Mystery,” he said in a statement. “It was his humanity, which was felt by everyone he encountered, even in his toughest interviews that really defines the greatness of his work. He was the most generous man I ever knew.”

Dow fell an exclusive interview with the Hearst kidnapping victim in December 1976 and was the first network interview with OJ Simpson after the 1994 murder of his ex-wife. Narrowly escaped one of the twin towers fell on September 11, 2001, the network said.

Dow was a contributor to “48 Hours on Crack Street”, the documentary of 1986, which led to the creation of the weekly “48 Hours”. Before that, he had been co-anchor of “CBS News Nightwatch” and CBS correspondent and reporter in the press office of Los Angeles. He began his career with the network as a broadcast partner in 1972.

As co-host and presenter of the talk show KETV in Omaha, Nebraska, was the first television reporter African-American in that city.

His wife, Kathy, and their three children survive him.

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