Jennifer Godwin
Stories by Jennifer
SXSW festival bands to perform at Stickyz
posted: 03/11/2012 5:04 a.m. Discuss
Go West, young bands! Or, since it’s March, go South by Southwest. And while you’re at it, pay Arkansas a visit on your musical manifest destiny.
DANCE REVIEW: Beyond Category an electrifying mix
posted: 03/10/2012 3:47 a.m. Discuss
Any dance performance that goes from the music of Tchaikovsky to ZZ Top is bound to be eclectic, and Ballet Arkansas’ Beyond Category did not disappoint, delivering a traditional ballet piece one minute, a spirited spiritual the next and then closing out with “La Grange.”
LR police fatally shoot man during raid
updated: 01/17/2012 3:49 p.m.
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The Little Rock house raided by SWAT officers early Tuesday had been under surveillance for weeks as a suspected drug house, authorities said as they released more details on the fatal shooting that drew anguished family members to the neighborhood where the raid took place.
DANCE REVIEW: Nutcracker dazzles, enchants
posted: 11/21/2011 5:43 a.m. Discuss
It snowed for a spell in central Arkansas on Sunday, even if it was just an early sprinkling of Christmas magic from the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker.
Wal-Mart won't expand its health-care offerings
posted: 11/09/2011 1:31 p.m. Comments 35
Wal-Mart said Tuesday that it would not be expanding in the medical field after a report suggested that the world's largest retailer was planning to offer such services as chronic illness management and diagnostic care.
Evanescence’s hiatus fruitful
posted: 10/16/2011 4:35 a.m. Discuss
Amy Lee has kept busy these past five years. She has gotten hitched, taken up the harp, let the vastness of the ocean engulf her, nested in New York. Oh, and worked on a just-released Evanescence album, the much-awaited follow-up to the band’s 2006 colossal hit, The Open Door.
DANCE REVIEW: Graham dancers show her choreography still resonates
posted: 10/12/2011 2 a.m. Discuss
The Martha Graham Dance Company took a Conway audience down dance memory lane in a guided theatrical tour of the celebrated choreographer’s life Tuesday night, proving that pieces created generations ago still resonate in the modern world.
LR native to appear on penultimate Oprah show
posted: 05/24/2011 10:02 a.m. Discuss
An Arkansas native was among the thousands at Oprah Winfrey's "Surprise Spectacular" event last week, joining celebrities in wishing the talk-show queen farewell.
9/11 families react to bin Laden's death
updated: 05/02/2011 2:42 p.m.
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As the news sinks in that al-Qaida head Osama bin Laden has been killed, family members of those who died in in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have reacted with shock and relief.
Springdale detective finds success in screenwriting
posted: 04/08/2011 9:43 a.m. Discuss
Mark McCann is not your typical law enforcement type.
Home, not alone
posted: 03/23/2011 4:12 a.m. Discuss
Raising a family is challenging enough, but imagine the daunting prospect of doing it when one of the parents struggles with a debilitating condition. When a disease leaves a mother too tired to take her daughter to the park, or a father unable to play catch. Or when making dinner is a task too cumbersome some nights.
What (and when) to tell kids
posted: 03/23/2011 3:56 a.m. Discuss
When to tell a child about a parent’s illness is as important as what to say. Experts say patients must not hide the disease because even young children are perceptive and can pick up on emotional cues such as stress and depression in parents. Most importantly, said Jessica Fisher, a social worker, children should participate to the degree with which they are comfortable.
School flu vaccination clinics announced
posted: 10/06/2010 11:46 a.m. Discuss
School-age children will receive a vaccination for the H1N1 virus in the flu shot at seasonal school clinics set to begin this month at schools across the state.
Fall TV season starts off with a blah for some shows
posted: 10/04/2010 10 a.m. Discuss
Just a couple of weeks into the fall TV season, and we already have the first casualties.
Vet shares story with goal of shedding light on soldiers' plight
posted: 09/30/2010 12:55 p.m. Discuss
Army Sgt. Chad Rozanski knows firsthand about the realities of war – the violent intensity of a firefight, the earth-rattling boom of a bomb, the unrelenting heat, the homesickness.
Arkansas' first trauma system centers to be named
posted: 09/27/2010 12:31 p.m. Comment 1
Gov. Mike Beebe, along with state lawmakers and health officials, will announce Tuesday the first facilities to be designated as trauma centers.
More than 100 pounds of drugs collected in Searcy
posted: 09/27/2010 10:30 a.m. Discuss
The Searcy Police Department netted more than 100 pounds of prescription and over-the-counter medicine during the National Prescription Drug Take-Back event held over the weekend.
Two in Austin arrested on drug charges
posted: 09/02/2010 2:46 p.m. Discuss
Authorities arrested two people on drug charges after an investigation looking into a purchase of pseudoephedrine, according to the Lonoke County sheriff's office.
Group warns stores of backlash from lottery machines
posted: 09/02/2010 1:23 p.m. Comments 8
A group that has fought against the lottery in Arkansas is sending letters out to stores in the state warning owners that they will lose business if they have the lottery ticket machines, saying they are "that unpopular."
UPDATE: Courthouse escapee surrenders to police
updated: 09/01/2010 2 p.m. Discuss
A jail inmate who escaped from courthouse security officers Tuesday turned himself in to authorities around 24 hours later at a friend's urging.
No change to 'pot' penalty, UA says
posted: 08/31/2010 10:08 p.m. Discuss
The University of Arkansas issued a statement late Tuesday clarifying that the sanction for marijuana on campus was not lessened to that of alcohol possession, as had been reported by a television station.
Inmate flees from LR courthouse
updated: 08/31/2010 12:45 p.m. Discuss
An inmate escaped from custody around lunchtime Tuesday at the Pulaski County Courthouse.
Stodola says LR in good shape
posted: 08/31/2010 12:11 p.m. Discuss
Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola defended progress in the capital city Tuesday by listing a dozen accolades and positive rankings by what he called "outsiders."
Authorities charge 4 in 2009 SUV deaths
updated: 08/31/2010 12:53 p.m. Comments 3
Authorities charged four men in connection with the killing of two people found shot in an SUV on Interstate 40 in May 2009 as well as the death of a third person.
UPDATE: Cries in the night reveal missing toddler in bed of pickup
updated: 08/27/2010 2:28 p.m. Comment 1
At first Little Rock resident Eric Buchanan ignored the cries in the middle of the night, thinking they were from the child of a relative.
35,000 guardsmen at risk after data loss
posted: 03/04/2010 4:41 p.m. Discuss
Around 35,000 current and former guardsmen will be notified that their personal information was on a hard drive that went missing last month, the Arkansas National Guard said Thursday.
With coat comes a love letter, and mystery
posted: 03/02/2010 4:03 p.m. Comments 2
"Dearest Anna, Your letters make me awfully homesick. I keep reading them over and over again." So begins a love letter from a soldier to his wife dated October 1943. And so begins the mystery of identifying Anna, 67 years later.
Barber speaks on football, life
posted: 11/11/2008 4:27 p.m.
For Tiki Barber, life comes down to four essentials: Family, friends, philanthropy and yes, football.
Player of the week: Neal Barlow
posted: 09/01/2008 6 a.m.
Neal Barlow likes to keep it pretty low-key. That's not to say he's blase about the already-here 2008 football season.
AUDIO EXTRA: Petrino wraps up thoughts on first game
updated: 09/01/2008 5:55 a.m.
Arkansas head Coach Bobby Petrino spoke highly of quarterback Casey Dick on Sunday, pointing to his athleticism and quick thinking as the game-savers in the Razorback's 28-24 season-opener victory against Western Illinois.
The ones to watch: Dijon Benton
posted: 08/25/2008 1:19 a.m.
Bryant's Dijon Benton knows what people must think.
Panel says campus safe, shooting was 'isolated incident'
posted: 08/20/2008 5:51 p.m.
A six-member committee concluded in a report released Wednesday that a shooting at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock earlier this year was an "isolated incident" on the generally safe campus.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK -The ones to watch: Anthony Rogers
posted: 08/18/2008 6 a.m.
North Little Rock's Anthony Rogers plans to make up for lost time. The defensive end played just five games last season because of a broken hand.
PLAYER OF THE WEEK - The ones to watch: Chris Scott
posted: 08/11/2008 6 a.m.
Chris Scott and football go way back. The Central High senior has a sports-minded family and a long career behind him already.
No. 1306 and No. 1309: Like father, like daughter
posted: 03/02/2008 9:33 a.m.
His youngest daughter was never far from Heath White's mind as he participated in Sunday's Little Rock Marathon. That's because 11-month-old Paisley was with him every step of the way.
No. 87: No stopping him
posted: 03/02/2008 12:51 a.m.
Don McNelly's children have their work cut out for them if they want to follow in their father's footsteps.
King of corrugation
posted: 07/26/2007 2:59 a.m.
Ask Ken Spillers how many cardboard boat races he's won and he'll smile broadly and say, "I don't know, you'll have to count trophies." Spillers entered his first race in Heber Springs in 1998 when he saw it advertised on television.
Cummins points to failure by Gonzales in prosecutor firings
posted: 03/29/2007 5:41 p.m.
Former U.S. Attorney H.E. "Bud" Cummins expressed disappointment Thursday over how he and seven other prosecutors were ousted last year, saying the Department of Justice's failure to insulate them from outside political pressure was "most disturbing."
Students show their flower-picking power at Daffodil Day
posted: 03/15/2007 7:09 p.m.
Students from two Little Rock schools were on a mission at Moss Mountain on Thursday.
