Ginny LaRoe
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Recent Stories
Body found, crash uncovered
posted: 07/04/2010 6:11 a.m. Discuss
Roger Scott Ward died in a wreck no one knew he’d been in.
2 samples reveal high E. coli in river
posted: 07/02/2010 5:40 a.m. Discuss
Two of 15 culture samples taken from a stretch of the Saline River near Arkansas 5 showed high levels of E. coli, the Arkansas Health Department said Thursday.
3 escape Lonoke jail, later back in custody
posted: 07/02/2010 5:40 a.m. Discuss
Three inmates who escaped from the Lonoke County jail early Thursday in what authorities suspect was an organized effort among other inmates were back in custody by day’s end.
E. coli in stretch of Saline River
posted: 06/26/2010 6:18 a.m. Comment 1
A portion of the Saline River is unsafe for swimming, health officials announced Friday after investigating four cases of severe diarrhea among people who swam there.
Ex-prosecutor Harmon wins acquittal in drug-selling trial
posted: 06/25/2010 5:40 a.m. Comments 3
Dan Harmon, a former prosecutor who served time in federal prison for public corruption, was acquitted Thursday of drug charges that threatened to send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Drinking, sex reports prompt inmates’ relocation
posted: 06/24/2010 5:19 a.m. Discuss
The State Department of Correction has pulled its Act 309 prisoners from the Saline County jail after an inmate got hold of a six-pack of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, a prison spokesman said Tuesday.
Malvern gas leak empties homes
posted: 06/19/2010 5:56 a.m. Discuss
A gas leak that began Thursday night at the Kohler plant on the north side of the city prompted an evacuation that threatened to keep area residents away from their homes until this morning.
‘Training kicked in’ for run at killers
posted: 06/18/2010 6:35 a.m.
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When the “officers down” call went over the radio, Arkansas Game and Fish officer Michael K. Neal stopped his truck, put on his body armor, strapped his assault rifle to his chest and sped toward West Memphis to join the hunt for the assailants.
Fatal church beating admitted, records say
posted: 06/17/2010 5:24 a.m. Comments 5
A man has confessed to killing an elderly Cross County woman in the sanctuary of her country church earlier this month, records released Wednesday say.
Victims mourned as crash probed
posted: 06/15/2010 5:31 a.m. Discuss
Investigators on Monday probed the cause of a fatal plane crash in rural Howard County that killed four De Queen residents Sunday as those who knew the two couples mourned their deaths.
