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Alamo and the Law RSS for Previous Features


S 2 Alamo dads said to face loss of children


Posted: October 27, 2009 4:38 a.m.

Arkansas child-welfare officials recommended Monday that the parental rights of two more fathers who are members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries be terminated, a move that would clear the men’s children to be put up for adoption, an advocate for the parents said Monday.
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2 teens who sued Alamo member awarded $3 million


Posted: October 22, 2009 2:04 p.m.

A federal judge has awarded $3 million to two teenagers who sued a fugitive accused of being the disciplinarian for the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.
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Politics and the Little Rock School Board RSS for Previous Features


Daugherty wins re-election to keep School Board seat


Posted: October 9, 2007 9:05 p.m.

Long-time incumbent Mike Daugherty was re-elected to the Zone 2 seat on the Little Rock School Board on Tuesday.
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S School race sends incumbent to runoff


Posted: September 19, 2007 2:04 a.m.

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.
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The Crash of Flight 1420 RSS for Previous Features


S A SURVIVOR'S STORY: 'And by the way, I was in a plane crash'


Posted: May 31, 2009 1:52 a.m.

American Airlines Flight 1420 crashed off the runway at Little Rock National Airport the late night of June 1, 1999. The pilot and 10 other people died. Carla Koen was among the wreck's 134 survivors.
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'Forever linked' through Flight 1420

Crash survivors dedicate memorial to dead, honor heroes of night


Posted: June 2, 2004 4:35 a.m.

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.
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Ambush in the Schoolyard RSS for Previous Features


Shooter, 13, to seek rehearing on high court's insanity ruling


Posted: June 24, 2000 4:13 a.m.

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.
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Boy shooter may be due new hearing


Posted: June 23, 2000 4:15 a.m.

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.
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My Brother's Keeper RSS for Previous Features


Former chief living in house at Conway center moves out


Posted: July 26, 2002 5 a.m.

Bob Clark, former superintendent of the Conway Human Development Center, has moved off the center grounds.
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Ruling on center housing queried

Development facility chief forced out is still living on grounds


Posted: July 16, 2002 5:02 a.m.

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.
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Caught in the Web RSS for Previous Features


But not forgotten

CAUGHT IN THE WEB LAST OF FOUR PARTS


Posted: December 17, 2003 1:21 p.m.

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.
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Running out of time

CAUGHT IN THE WEB THIRD OF FOUR PARTS


Posted: December 16, 2003 1:14 p.m.

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.
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The Clinton Crisis RSS for Previous Features


Fill-in gave to Clinton, will recuse


Posted: February 18, 2000 5:46 a.m.

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.
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Text of articles of impeachment


Posted: December 20, 1999 4:30 a.m.

Article 1 This article alleges President Clinton "willfully provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony" before independent counsel Kenneth Starr's grand jury on Aug. 17.
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Conventions at a Cost RSS for Previous Features


LR forms team to investigate visitors bureau

Dubious accounting, outlays merit look, city board decides


Posted: January 23, 2007 6:31 p.m.

Little Rock leaders appointed a team of City Hall lawyers and financial advisers Thursday to investigate the city's troubled Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Head of panel promoting LR calling it quits

Ringgold says PR damage ties her hands; others agree


Posted: January 23, 2007 6:29 p.m.

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.
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Gulf Coast Recovery RSS for Previous Features


Mississippi Heartache

Katrina's legacy across the South is silence where sounds of life once echoed.


Posted: December 18, 2005 4:19 p.m.

MISSISSIPPI COAST - The silence here is primitive, the silence of a thousand years ago, the civilized silence before civilization intruded.
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Views of a broken city


Posted: December 15, 2005 4:50 p.m.

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.
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Juvenile Justice: Pain and Promise RSS for Previous Features


Pain and Promise: Kids in storage -- can the state break the pattern?


Posted: February 27, 2000 3:49 a.m.

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.
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Killers, rapists -- 'some wet the bed...are scared of the dark'


Posted: February 27, 2000 3:55 a.m.

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.
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Juvenile Justice: The War Within RSS for Previous Features


A laundry list of problems


Posted: June 14, 1998 4:53 a.m.

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.
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"Welcome to hell"

Troubled youths in state custody face "lesson-teaching" beatings, filthy quarters, cramped cells, unwanted sex and caretakers who don't care.


Posted: June 14, 1998 4:58 a.m.

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.
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LOST PARADISE RSS for Previous Features


State sues Sharp County land developer, 3 of his partners


Posted: June 20, 2008 5:48 a.m.

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.
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Tipsters say fugitive developer spotted back in Sharp County


Posted: June 18, 2008 5 a.m.

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.
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Notes from a war - stories RSS for Previous Features


Tontitown mayor at odds with city officials


Posted: August 21, 2009 8:42 a.m.

City officials in Tontitown say Mayor Joe Edgmon isn't doing his job and his holding up projects that include funding to pay for cleaning up after an ice storm.
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South Korean held in North is freed, returns home


Posted: August 13, 2009 11:14 a.m.

A South Korean worker detained for months in North Korea returned home Thursday after the communist nation freed him.
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Squalor with a license RSS for Previous Features


State scurries to remove residents from three centers


Posted: March 5, 1999 5:17 a.m.

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.
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State gears to relocate residential-care patients


Posted: March 4, 1999 5:18 a.m.

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.
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Taken by the Streets RSS for Previous Features


For street racers, loyalty optional


Posted: January 23, 2007 6:23 p.m.

In the world of street racing, loyalty extends only to the living, police officers and prosecutors say.
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A mom's fight for justice


Posted: January 23, 2007 6:08 p.m.

Second of two parts. Juanacha Lawrence couldn't afford a monument for her daughter's grave.
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The Central High Crisis RSS for Previous Features


Bush signs off on commemorative civil rights coin


Posted: December 3, 2008 3:53 p.m.

President Bush has signed legislation to mint a commemorative silver dollar marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
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S 200 see film on Central, racial divide in LR today


Posted: September 27, 2007 2:59 a.m.

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.
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The West Memphis Murders RSS for Previous Features


Mother of slain boy attends hearing in West Memphis case


Posted: October 1, 2009 5:36 p.m.

The mother of one of the three 8-year-olds killed more than 15 years ago in West Memphis says she believes the men convicted in the crime are innocent.
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Turtles likely caused boys' injuries, expert testifies


Posted: August 11, 2009 5:23 p.m.

A forensic pathologist says that animals - likely turtles - caused multiple injuries to the bodies of three West Memphis boys who were found dead in 1993.
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