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Ginny LaRoe

2 arrested in grisly murders of family

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 21, 2009 6:18 a.m.

Two men were arrested Friday morning in the murders of five people on a remote property in Garland County last week.
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FBI joins probe into 5 slayings

Deputy calls leads dead ends

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 19, 2009 5:06 a.m.

The FBI is helping investigate the slayings of five people found shot in their homes outside Hot Springs after days of dead-end leads and no arrests.
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Molested girl, 15, ex-police chief says

Conviction in ’04; now a guilty plea

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 18, 2009 3:44 a.m.

The former Shannon Hills police chief who has been fighting a sexual-assault conviction for five years has admitted to molesting a girl in exchange for a shorter prison sentence.
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County auctioning ex-‘pot’ farm

25 acres is probably free of crop and booby traps, lawmen say

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 17, 2009 5:10 a.m.

A former “pot” property is going on the auction block.
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Slaying of 5 leaves family asking why

Police confirm all victims were shot, offer no motive

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 14, 2009 8:19 a.m.

Karen Gentry can’t make sense of it.
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5 found dead near Hot Springs

Remains of 4 in burned mobile home; slain man, 80, next door

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 13, 2009 5:50 a.m.

Five people were found dead Thursday morning in neighboring homes on a rural property in Garland County in what investigators are calling one of the worst acts of violence in the area in decades.
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Benton rejects tax bump for public-safety services

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 11, 2009 4:36 a.m.

Voters on Tuesday rejected a proposed one-half-percent sales tax to pay for public-safety services.
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Benton to vote on public-safety tax

Problems overstated, foes say

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 9, 2009 2:34 a.m.

Voters on Tuesday will decide whether to raise the city’s sales tax by a half-percent to pay for public-safety services.
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Burner of cross gets year in prison

Actions ‘stupid,’ he says to judge

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 7, 2009 4:03 a.m.

One of five men convicted in a plot to run a white woman and her three biracial children out of a small town by burning a cross in her yard was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison.
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Ex-official pleads guilty to DWI

Former special-education director gets 10 days in jail, $1,580 fine

By Ginny LaRoe
Posted: November 6, 2009 6:22 a.m.

A former Pulaski County Special School District administrator pleaded guilty Thursday to driving drunk in March when he was stopped with a large bottle of vodka, a pack of beer and some Listerine in his car.
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