An East Hyde Park condo building was one of multiple locations across two cities in which three people were killed and four injured in a shooting spree that police tied to a single gunman a man who apparently had made threats in rambling videos posted to social media before the shootings and engaged with Evanston police, who fatally shot him.
Friction at the Arkansas Lottery: A firing and hushup of a $2 million winner ERIC HAGLER
Persistent reports about unhappiness in the ranks about new
Arkansas Lottery director Eric Hagler burst into the open yesterday.
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ERIC HAGLER: Making news at the Arkansas Lottery.
I learned Friday about a disagreement over his decision not to release to the public the names of winners of $2 million in a Powerball drawing in September. And today, Michael Wickline of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that Hagler had fired the lottery’s chief legal counsel,
Michael Helms, for reasons not yet revealed.
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Bishop Woosley, quietly was eased out to make room for a Hutchinson administration pick. Hagler, who was practicing law in California, had no lottery experience but he knew Governor Hutchinson from time working in Arkansas and his father, a Little Rock physician, is a friend of Larry Walther, head of Finance and Administration, whic