Quiet night goes 'haywire'
It was the kind of Saturday night you relive in dreams. Bad dreams.
It was the kind of Saturday night you relive in dreams. Bad dreams.
Two life-threatening conditions were among more than 36 deficiencies documented in a May 4 security audit of the Alexander Youth Services Center.
She had waited all week to visit him. He was the youngest of her eight children. He had gotten into trouble, charged with theft by receiving and possession of …
THE DOG LYING on the porch in the summer heat slowly raises his head, glances briefly with annoyed brown eyes at the visitor and resumes his siesta.
Several juvenile court judges in Arkansas said Monday that they are troubled by problems with the state's juvenile justice system.
Lee Frazier, director of the state Department of Human Services since last July, resigned Wednesday amid allegations that children are being abused while in st…
Politicians hailed the 1994 deal to use the North Little Rock jail as a center for juvenile offenders as a cost-saving measure to help the city and the state.
News of Lee Frazier's resignation as head of the Arkansas Department of Human Services underscores the need to split up the state's largest agency, some lawmak…
Lawmakers weren't sure they were making the right decision in 1997 to move the staff of the Early Childhood Commission under the state Department of Human Serv…
Documents contained in an Arkansas State Police report show that Gov. Mike Huckabee was briefed as early as August 1997 of reports of abuse at the Youth Servic…
Department of Human Services Director Lee Frazier said Thursday that a number of factors led to his resignation, including news reports of allegations that chi…
When the discussion turns to drugs and alcohol in Rick Mattick's second-hour health class, most students have years' worth of war stories to tell.
Nathan's walk home from school took him down a long gravel road and through the woods to a chalet-style wood house built by Bill Cantwell on land his family ha…
Judge Gary Isbell of the 14th Judicial District has sent only 14 juvenile offenders from his four counties to the state's Division of Youth Services since bein…
The sobs from the boy echoed off the concrete walls and down the windowless halls where hope had given way to despair.