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Crash survivors dedicate memorial to dead, honor heroes of night
(Wednesday, June 2, 2004)
Evelyn Soo decided Monday night to let go of a secret she didn’t want anymore. So she took out a notecard, wrote a few words and taped a small piece of green metal, a broken Lbracket, to the card. » Read story.
Crash memorial dedication today
(Tuesday, June 1, 2004)
It’s been a long storm season for the surviving passengers of American Airlines Flight 1420 - five years to the day since the plane crashed off the end of a runway at Little Rock National Airport, Adams Field, in the middle of tornadolike winds, lightning and hail. » Read story.
(Saturday, June 24, 2000)
The attorney for Andrew Golden, the younger of two boys who killed four students and a teacher at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro two years ago, still wants his client to be allowed to argue that he was insane. So, he plans to ask the Arkansas Supreme Court to reconsider Thursday's ruling that denied him that right. » Read story.
(Friday, June 23, 2000)
Andrew Golden, the younger of two boys who killed four students and a teacher at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro two years ago, should have been allowed to argue in his juvenile court proceeding that he was incompetent, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday. » Read story.
(Friday, July 26, 2002)
Bob Clark, former superintendent of the Conway Human Development Center, has moved off the center grounds. » Read story.
Development facility chief forced out is still living on grounds
(Tuesday, July 16, 2002)
A decision to allow former superintendent Bob Clark to live on the Conway Human Development Center campus until Aug. 30 will be examined this week by a legislative personnel committee. » Read story.
CAUGHT IN THE WEB LAST OF FOUR PARTS
By Cathy Frye (Contact)
(Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003)
The kidnapper still clutched his 9 mm Luger in a lifeless hand.
A few feet from his body, in the rear of his rented silver minivan, his victim lay on her back, her wrists and ankles chained tightly to the four corners of the van’s floor. » Read story.
CAUGHT IN THE WEB THIRD OF FOUR PARTS
By Cathy Frye (Contact)
(Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003)
FBI agent Jerry Spurgers knelt on the floor of 13-year-old Kacie Woody’s bedroom, holding two crumpled pieces of paper that might reveal the identity of Kacie’s kidnapper. » Read story.
(Friday, Feb. 18, 2000)
A member of the Arkansas Supreme Court Alternate Committee on Professional Conduct who contributed $1,500 to President Clinton's presidential campaigns has recused from a review of ethics complaints that seek to revoke Clinton's law license. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Monday, Dec. 20, 1999)
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This article alleges President Clinton "willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony" before independent counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury on Aug. 17. » Read story.
Dubious accounting, outlays merit look, city board decides
(Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007)
Little Rock leaders appointed a team of City Hall lawyers and financial advisers Thursday to investigate the city’s troubled Convention and Visitors Bureau. » Read story.
Ringgold says PR damage ties her hands; others agree
(Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007)
Mary Beth Ringgold resigned as chairman of the Little Rock Advertising and Promotion Commission on Saturday after a week of criticism over the agency's spending practices. » Read story.
Katrina's legacy across the South is silence where sounds of life once echoed.
By Jay Grelen (Contact)
(Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005)
MISSISSIPPI COAST — The silence here is primitive, the silence of a thousand years ago, the civilized silence before civilization intruded. » Read story.
By Cathy Frye (Contact)
(Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005)
The first twinge of guilt struck when we checked in to the JW Marriott on Canal Street.
My friend and fellow reporter, Amy Upshaw, and I had just arrived in New Orleans to report on how things currently stand in this devastated city. » Read story.
(Sunday, Feb. 27, 2000)
At 13, Charles still couldn't pass first grade. He couldn't define "cow." Or "donkey." He couldn't tell time. His speech defect was so severe that he was nearly impossible to understand. When teased by other children, he cried hysterically. » Read story.
(Sunday, Feb. 27, 2000)
Linda Grover never saw it coming. She was herding children away from a fistfight during lunch when a table rammed her from behind in the cafeteria at the Alexander Youth Services Center. » Read story.
(Sunday, June 14, 1998)
A security audit of the state-run Central Arkansas Observation and Assessment Center for juvenile delinquents raises serious concerns about health and safety, as well as the attitude of the staff. » Read story.
Troubled youths in state custody face "lesson-teaching" beatings, filthy quarters, cramped cells, unwanted sex and caretakers who don't care.
(Sunday, June 14, 1998)
LIKE ANY 14-YEAR-OLD, David G. really knew how to irritate adults. As a juvenile in the custody of the state, he was obnoxiously defiant. » Read story.
By C.S. Murphy (Contact), Amy Upshaw (Contact)
(Friday, June 20, 2008)
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Sharp County developer Wayne Watkins and three of his business partners, accusing them of “unconscionable” behavior that violated the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. » Read story.
By Amy Upshaw (Contact)
(Wednesday, June 18, 2008)
Hardy developer Wayne Watkins, who is wanted on a felony theft charge in connection with failed land deals and believed to be in Mexico, was reported to have been back in Sharp County two weeks ago, strolling down the aisles of a Wal-Mart. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007)
Long-time incumbent Mike Daugherty was re-elected to the Zone 2 seat on the Little Rock School Board on Tuesday. » Read story.
By Cynthia Howell (Contact)
(Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007)
Incumbent Little Rock School Board member Mike Daugherty and challenger Anna Swaim ended Tuesday’s four-person race for the Zone 2 position on the Little Rock School Board in a dead heat and headed for an Oct. 9 runoff. » Read story.
State PSC chief’s shortened tour runs contrary to Army policy
By Amy Schlesing (Contact)
(Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008)
Maj. Paul Suskie, chairman of the state Public Service Commission, was allowed to cut short his tour of duty in Iraq as top legal officer for Arkansas’ 39th Infantry Brigade despite orders to deploy for the entire year. » Read story.
By Amy Schlesing (Contact)
(Thursday, July 17, 2008)
FURAT, Iraq — Pfc. Brandon Titsworth stood at the back of a growling humvee and wrestled his body armor onto his shoulders. A cigarette dangled from his grinning lips. Staff Sgt. Curtis Coleman burst out of the house in his usual raucous style and hollered, “Let’s get to work!” to his squad of soldiers from 1st Battalion, Bravo Company, 3rd Platoon of Arkansas’ 39th Infantry Brigade. » Read story.
(Friday, March 5, 1999)
Amid tense discussions and legal confusion, the state scrambled Thursday to remove residents from three residential-care facilities accused of multiple health and safety violations. » Read story.
(Thursday, March 4, 1999)
Just hours after a judge's ruling Wednesday, the state took steps to remove residents from three residential-care facilities accused of chronically providing unsafe, unsanitary environments for their clients, mostly the mentally ill or retarded. » Read story.
(Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007)
In the world of street racing, loyalty extends only to the living, police officers and prosecutors say. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007)
Second of two parts. Juanacha Lawrence couldn’t afford a monument for her daughter’s grave. » Read story.
By Charlotte Tubbs
(Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007)
More than 200 people viewed an HBO documentary on Little Rock Central High School on Wednesday and discussed how to address problems identified in the film, from blighted neighborhoods to high school students who read on a third-grade level. » Read story.
A fairer world starts with self, thousands told
By Cynthia Howell (Contact), Tara M. Manthey , Charlotte Tubbs
(Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007)
Fifty years after they set a milestone in national civil rights history by desegregating Little Rock Central High School, members of the Little Rock Nine called for continued work toward racial equality Tuesday and urged individuals to take action. » Read story.
(Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008)
An assistant to Craighead County Circuit Judge David Burnett says a set of hearings scheduled to begin Monday for three men convicted in the 1993 slayings of three boys in West Memphis will be postponed. » Read story.
(Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008)
A judge said Wednesday that he is not sure whether he’ll need to hold hearings for next month for three men seeking to overturn their convictions in the brutal 1993 slayings of three boys in West Memphis. » Read story.
