Krisha Williams Turbeville

Eager to PLEASE

These store meeters and greeters may be a little shaggy but they make customers smile

Skye the Dog is famous around Little Rock for boosting the moods of patrons in her job as greeter, always eager to chase her red ball through the open spaces of Cantrell Gallery.
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Shopcat.com has readers purring

Trina Samson of Seattle created Shop cat.com after entering shop after shop with cats and delighting in their company.
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Big Footsie, head library cat at school for the blind, dies

Big Footsie, head library cat at the Arkansas School for the Blind and ambassador for Feline Rescue and Rehome, has died at the age of 8 1 /2.
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Feline philosophy

Library cat Big Footsie makes it his business to instill children with a love for reading

Big Footsie loves children. It's his job to pick out books for them to read, listen to their problems and calm them down when times are tough.
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Shelters overloaded with county's strays

Cities clamor for new animal facility

Private and municipal shelters in central Arkansas are being overrun with animals found in rural Pulaski County, stretching resources to the point that shelter officials say they can no longer afford to keep caring for the county's strays.
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New novelist engagingly mixes murder and magic

The Lace Reader, Brunonia Barry, William Morrow, 392 pages, $24.95 Brunonia Barry spins a veil of lace before readers' eyes, lifting it by degrees to reveal her characters' secrets in an enchanting first novel, The Lace Reader.
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No. 1554: Brick for Women

Rick Hood pedaled more than 500 miles in six days from Houston to Little Rock to run in the sixth annual marathon today.
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No. 5289: Sole concern

Sterling Holmes ran foot loose in the sixth annual Little Rock Marathon, completing the 5K barefoot today.
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