Arkansas
Photo by Rick McFarland
IC Corp. worker Bill Traffanstedt, 39, and his granddaughter, Ivy Sutterfield, 6, sit on the porch of their Atkins home Friday. Traffanstedt has worked at the Conway bus plant for 18 years.
ADVERSTISMENT
Conway layoffs cut deep
Bus plant part of city since ’33
Posted: November 7, 2009 5:26 a.m.
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
Posted: November 7, 2009 5:20 a.m.
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
Posted: November 7, 2009 3:40 a.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 7:36 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 6:08 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 6:05 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 4:48 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 4:27 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 4:07 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 3:16 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 3:02 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 2:30 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 1 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 12:58 p.m.
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
Posted: November 6, 2009 12:56 p.m.
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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