Arkansas

Conway layoffs cut deep

Bus plant part of city since ’33

For weeks, rumors flew down the assembly line at one of the city’s oldest employers — a bus plant that’s been tightly woven into the fabric of Conway since 1933.
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Hair on Pressly’s bed Vance’s, expert says

Other DNA called not as conclusive

A single tiny hair discovered on Little Rock TV news anchor Anne Pressly’s bed belongs to the man accused of killing her “within all scientific certainty,” a state DNA examiner testified Friday during the third day of testimony in Curtis Lavelle Vance’s capital-murder trial in Pulaski County Circuit Court.
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Obituaries

OBITUARIES Information for the obituaries and funeral notices below was supplied to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Advertising Department by funeral homes.
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NLR teacher named 2010 Teacher of the Year

Vandy Nash, a fourth-grade teacher at North Little Rock's Indian Hills Elementary School, is the 2010 Teacher of the Year, Gov. Mike Beebe announced Friday during a ceremony at the Governor's Mansion.
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1 dead in Fulton County plane crash

Authorities say one person died in the crash of a single-engine airplane in Fulton County.
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Father pleads not guilty to killing daughter

A man serving time for killing his infant son and trekking around the country with the child’s body pleaded not guilty Friday to doing the same thing to his baby daughter.
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Expert: Hair like suspect’s found near TV anchor

A single hair found in the bloody bedroom of television anchorwoman Anne Pressly bore the genetic signature of the man charged with raping and killing her, a crime lab expert testified Friday.
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Woman arrested in East Camden slaying

Police arrested a 24-year-old woman for the slaying of a 71-year-old man in East Camden.
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13 hurt in southern Arkansas bus crash

A dozen students and a driver where hurt when three buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State University marching band were involved in a pileup on a highway in southern Arkansas.
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Beebe orders flags to lowered for Fort Hood deaths

To mark the soldier shootings at Fort Hood in Texas, Gov. Mike Beebe has ordered U.S. and Arkansas flags be flown at half-staff until Veterans Day.
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Phillips County man charged with forgery

Authorities say a man in Helena-West Helena is charged with forgery after a search of his home turned up phony cash and money orders.
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Beebe: House health bill could cost Ark. $205M

Gov. Mike Beebe says that a proposal in the House to overhaul the nation’s health care system could add $205 million to the state’s budget by 2015.
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Texarkana teen pleads not guilty to murder

A 19-year-old Texarkana man has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Miller County.
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Agriculture weather losses put at $225 million

State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly $225 million.
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$1.4 million set for trails in state

The state Highway Commission says it will grant $1.428 million toward 25 projects that will develop recreational trails throughout Arkansas, including a $289,000 project for North Little Rock.
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