The line is open. Closing out:
* The future of legal ads in newspapers. Pressure on Children's Hospital over the Technology Park. A new state parks website.
Sharon and John Hardin Bale Jr. will give $1 million to support the fetal heart program at Arkansas Children's Hospital and it will be named in their honor.
Arkansas Children's Hospital, marking its 100th birthday today with an event including former President Bill Clinton among the speakers, said it had raised $100 million already toward a $160 milion goal to apply to pediatric care, research, education and prevention.
From the Stephens Media Arkansas News Bureau:
Bobby Petrino and wife Becky announced a $250,000 donation to Arkansas Children’s Hospital on Friday and the Arkansas football coach said he will lend his name to a golf tournament to benefit the hospital.
Kristen and Cliff Lee (he's the major league pitcher who lives in Little Rock) have given $1 million to Arkansas Children's Hospital to endow a chair in pediatric hematology/oncology.
Two separate reports today of unexplained gunfire. * Police are investigating shots fired into offices at the Metropolitan Bank tower at Capitol and Broadway, time unknown.