Stories by Elyssa Cherney

  • UCA planting sculpture of sticks

    CONWAY -- By the second week of her freshman year at the University of Central Arkansas, Kaitlin Carter was already hard at work.

  • UAM's credits for teens disputed

    A Pine Bluff-area community college has complained to the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board that a four-year university offering concurrent enrollme…

  • Ghana, state benefits focus of symposium

    Among the business suits and ties worn by attendees at a symposium on sustainable farming Thursday in North Little Rock, some participants dressed in kente -- …

  • Suit filed over film royalties

    As a child, Jordan Cooper watched Texas Gov. Ann Richards make witty comments on late-night talk shows.

  • Mineral Springs stands again

    MINERAL SPRINGS -- After Brock Byers graduated from Mineral Springs High School in 1998, he got a tattoo by which to remember his alma mater.

  • Forum gives female vets options

    Deb Flynn scribbled notes in a journal Saturday morning as she sat in a room surrounded by more than 30 other Arkansan female veterans.

  • Shooting leaves two dead in Alexander

    ALEXANDER -- Arkansas State Police is investigating a double homicide in Saline County where two men entered a mobile home filled with 20 people and opened fir…

  • Jonesboro's police chief suspended

    Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin suspended the city's police chief for 30 days without pay Friday and ordered him to write a letter of apology to a former newspap…

  • First ladies' gowns ail with age

    Inside a dimly lit glass case at the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, the dress Louvenia Wallace Donaghey wore to her husband's inauguration as Arkansas'…

  • Fire chief of police, Sun says in filing

    The Jonesboro Sun is calling for the termination of the city's police chief after he posted comments about a reporter on Facebook, leading to her resignation o…

  • Fewer in state filing for U.S. disability aid

    Fewer low-income children and adults are filing for federal disability benefits in Arkansas this year, according to the state's Social Security disability dete…

  • Crematorium law ignored after '97 case

    For 16 years, the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors failed to hold required public hearings to approve the construction of crematoriums because of…

  • Board tables request to build crematorium

    An attempt to build a crematorium near a Russellville-area school was delayed by a state board Thursday over pollution concerns from residents and questions ab…

  • 2 board candidates talk cost cuts for LR schools

    The two incumbents running for re-election to the Little Rock School Board agreed Friday morning at a forum that the district staff's benefits and salaries wil…

  • Kids take 'pride' in good behavior

    TEXARKANA -- The smacking-together of drumsticks booms out of a classroom at North Heights Junior High School.

  • Slayer of three in home gets life

    Quivering, her head barely visible above the witness stand, Anna Galbraith drew deep breaths. She spoke slowly. She sobbed.

  • Officials look into death of newborn

    About a week after the death of a 10-month-old who was abandoned in the Ouachita Mountains, Yell County officials are investigating the death of another baby.

  • Woman accused of manslaughter

    Methamphetamine-induced hallucinations led a Greenwood woman to abandon her infant son and husband in the Ouachita Mountains, an affidavit filed Tuesday in Yel…

  • Wife, mom of 2 dead in woods is out of jail

    The woman whose baby and husband were found dead in the Ouachita Mountains on Tuesday posted a $50,000 bond and was released from the Yell County jail Wednesda…

  • Bodies of dad, son are found in forest

    The bodies of a missing infant and his father were found near Blue Mountain Lake in the Ouachita Mountains on Tuesday afternoon after a four-day search.

  • Woman's story sparks search for man, baby

    When forest personnel discovered a woman wandering along a remote road south of Blue Mountain Lake in Yell County on Friday, her story set off an extensive gro…

  • Camp aims to sharpen students' love of music

    Brittany Martin, a 15-year-old student at Central Arkansas Christian, relaxes when she plays the flute -- and that's not only when she's practicing an instrume…

  • State notes rise in rate of college-going seniors

    More Arkansans went straight to college from their public high schools in 2013 than the year before, but the state's college-going rate still dips below the na…

  • Police beat

    Shoplifting suspecta fighter, police say

  • State OKs $1 satellite-lockup deal

    The state Board of Corrections unanimously approved a contract to house state prisoners in an unused Pulaski County satellite facility during a Monday morning …

  • Trial set for ex-Sheriff Pennington

    Trial dates were set Monday for two former Saline County sheriff's office officials accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the county.

  • Arkadelphia man faces death penalty

    ARKADELPHIA -- An Arkadelphia man charged with capital murder in the 2012 slayings of two young girls and their stepfather will face the death penalty if convi…

  • Judge grants Marshall more time in water suit

    CONWAY -- A circuit judge postponed a verdict Thursday on whether a Searcy County city will have to pay a water authority $259,400 in late fees for a service c…

  • Hope police aim to cut crime with unit

    HOPE -- The Hope Police Department is ramping up its efforts to combat increased crime during the summer, in the form of a new Street Crimes Unit.

  • Officer involved in shooting ID'd

    The Jefferson County sheriff's office on Wednesday released the name of a criminal investigator involved in a restaurant shooting in Pine Bluff last week.

  • Conway outdoor area gets scrutiny

    Recreationists who enjoy the Camp Robinson Special Use Area near Conway agreed with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission at a public meeting Tuesday that fees…

  • Escapee vanishes, town a bit jumpy

    BOONEVILLE -- Ray Gack remembers the day more than 15 years ago when he received a 911 call to a field in rural Logan County.

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