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Fat Tuesday Celebration; Upcoming ESL Symposium

Winter Weather:

Partly cloudy, with a low around 21. North northwest wind between 6 and 8 mph. It looks like the temperatures will continue to be at extreme lows through the rest of the week. We may see some precipitation later this week.

On Campus:

Fat Tuesday is being celebrated by college students right in downtown Fayetteville.

The U of A will sponsor an ESL symposium on Feb. 26 that will cover the academic and legal aspects of teaching english as a second language.

Around Northwest Arkansas:

Sarah Palin is making her way to Little Rock tonight for a fundraiser

Locally K2, known as a legal synthetic marijuana is raising concern not only amongst parent and police but doctors too.

And PETA is using the Duggars for the advertisement of spaying and neutering dogs

Across the World:

A 21-year-old Georgia mom murdered her daughter and attempted to also drown her son.

About 600 witnesses are expected to testify in a trial that started Monday for a bank robbery some call Argentina’s robbery of the century.

Police arrested a suspected member of the Basque Separatist Group ETA Tuesday on a train in Northern Spain

Sports:

ARKANSAS IS STILL TIED FOR THE LEAD IN THE SEC WESTERN DIVISION AFTER THEIR LOSS TO ALABAMA THIS WEEKEND AND WILL TRY TO CONTINUE THEIR WINNING WAYS THIS WEDNESDAY.

BOTH THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD TEAMS HAVE GARNERED TOP TEN NATIONAL RANKINGS.

THE WINTER OLYMPICS ARE IN FULL SWING AND THE USA IS OFF TO A GOOD START.