Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:04 a.m.

Amy Upshaw

Lawyer seeks deal to return fugitive

By C.S. Murphy, Amy Upshaw
Posted: November 21, 2009 6:05 a.m.

An attorney for Wayne Watkins is negotiating with law enforcement officials for the fugitive developer to return to Sharp County to face a felony theft charge and possible jail time. Watkins has been living in Mexico.
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Teacher of Year selected

NLR instructor chosen from 15

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: November 7, 2009 4:04 a.m.

On live television, North Little Rock elementary school teacher Vandy Nash learned Friday evening that she had been named the 2010 Arkansas Teacher of the Year.
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Adoption limit still worries Beebe

One year after passage, act’s effects murky

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: November 5, 2009 5:45 a.m.

A year after voters passed a measure limiting access to adoptions and foster parenting, Gov. Mike Beebe said he’s still concerned the law will adversely affect children needing families.
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Indians’ state trails covert, not forgotten

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 25, 2009 3:46 a.m.

Beneath hundreds of miles of Arkansas roadways, through centers of towns and tucked deep in aging forests are stretches of routes Cherokee Indians traveled more than a century ago as they made their way toward the new Indian Territory.
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Grant awarded to study effects of drug in kids

LR hospital to get $2 million

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 21, 2009 3:10 a.m.

The research arm of Arkansas Children’s Hospital received a $2 million grant to look for risk factors in children that would make them more susceptible to acetaminophen poisoning than others, the hospital announced Tuesday.
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Probation volunteers help youths

3rd state program set in PB

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 19, 2009 4:43 a.m.

With each of his juvenile probation officers handling 70 to 80 cases each, Circuit Judge Earnest E. Brown Jr. began looking for ways to lighten the load so youths in Jefferson and Lincoln counties could get more one-onone attention.
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D.C. school chief speaks in LR

Rhee says public education should be equalizer for kids

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 15, 2009 5:51 a.m.

The controversial superintendent of Washington D.C.’s public school system told a crowd in Little Rock on Wednesday that public education should be the great equalizer for children of all backgrounds.
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Downpours flood roads, close rides at State Fair

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 14, 2009 5:07 a.m.

Steady, drenching rain across much of Arkansas on Tuesday flooded dozens of roads, inundated already soaked crops, shuttered Arkansas State Fair rides and likely caused a building collapse in Monticello.
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State aims for facility’s license

Assisted-living center to appeal

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 10, 2009 5:27 a.m.

The Department of Human Services has sent a notice to the Ridgeview Residential and Assisted Care Center in Eureka Springs saying it plans to revoke the facility’s license after inspectors found numerous problems.
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Children’s Hospital awarded $1.4 million

Grant to aid neonatal unit, endowment

By Amy Upshaw
Posted: October 9, 2009 3:11 a.m.

A $1.4 million grant to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation will help the hospital expand its neonatal intensive-care unit and establish an endowment fund, the hospital announced Thursday.
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