Ginny LaRoe

Burner of cross gets year in prison

Actions ‘stupid,’ he says to judge

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

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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Two teenagers facing charges in fatal beating of tame fawn

A friendly fawn taken in by a Camden veterinarian fell prey to two teenagers who lured it with a handful of corn before one of them beat it to death with a hammer, police said.
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Residents await FEMA buyout

Benton neighborhood hopes for relief from floods

Residents sick of living in a soggy neighborhood on Salt Creek are hoping for relief from the federal government, which has a program to buy flood-prone homes.
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Landfill looking to boost its cash

Saline County considers bids

Saline County is shopping around for more trash.
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No Halloween for sex offenders

State orders counseling for some

There’ll be no trick-or-treating for many of the state’s sex offenders tonight.
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Wind, rain batter state, force rescues

Rising waters swamp roads, homes in central Arkansas

Severe storms that produced high winds, heavy rains and reports of possible tornadoes hit southern Arkansas on Thursday, damaging at least a dozen homes and buildings, uprooting trees and downing electrical lines.
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Dog attack kills Prescott 2-year-old

Tot wandered too close to chained-up pit bull in neighbor’s backyard

A 2-year-old boy died after a chained-up pit-bull terrier in a neighbor’s backyard attacked him Wednesday morning in Prescott, police said.
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Benton man bills city for road use

City Hall balks at $72,000 tab

When Doyle Wright decided the folks at City Hall owed him something, he did what plenty of residents have probably wanted to do: He billed them.
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TV talk prompts clinic’s LR stop

Group offers day of free health care

A free health clinic will open in Little Rock for one day next month after a cable news personality made a plea to hold mass clinics in the home states of senators seen as obstacles to a health-care overhaul.
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