Recent stories by Debra Hale-Shelton
University board OKs speech rule
ARKADELPHIA — Henderson State University’s board of trustees on Friday approved a resolution aimed at allowing people other than trustees and those on the agenda to make comments during board meetings...
September 16, 2018
Henderson State University board OKs speech rule
ARKADELPHIA -- Henderson State University's board of trustees on Friday approved a resolution aimed at allowing people other than trustees and those on the agenda to make comments during board meeting...
September 15, 2018
Enrollment up at Henderson, university says
Boosted by a record number of new freshmen, Henderson State University's undergraduate enrollment increased for the fall semester for the first time since the fall of 2014.
The university said 3,009 u...
September 13, 2018
Teens' cases separated in fatal kidnap of woman who was shopping in central Arkansas
CONWAY -- A judge on Tuesday separated the cases of two teenage cousins accused of kidnapping and killing a Wooster woman who had been on a shopping trip in nearby Conway.
The attorney for 16-year-old...
September 5, 2018
2 teens charged in slaying, kidnapping of 72-year-old central Arkansas woman plead not guilty
CONWAY — Prosecutors said Tuesday they have formally charged two teenagers with capital murder, kidnapping and other offenses in the July slaying of a central Arkansas woman.
Robert Lee Smith III, 16,...
September 4, 2018
Arkansas university's board looking at speech, visit limits
Henderson State University's board of trustees is to discuss measures that would restrict the panel's own speech and actions, including members' visits onto the publicly supported campus.
The discussi...
September 3, 2018
Henderson State University board looking at speech, visit limits
Henderson State University's board of trustees is to discuss measures that would restrict the panel's own speech and actions, including members' visits onto the publicly supported campus.
The discussi...
September 3, 2018
Death penalty handed down for '16 slaying at central Arkansas motel
CONWAY -- For the first time in almost 30 years, a Faulkner County jury on Wednesday sentenced a capital-murder defendant to death.
The circuit court jury convicted Scotty Ray Gardner a day earlier in...
August 23, 2018
Man gets death sentence for strangling woman at central Arkansas motel
Convicted murderer Scotty Ray Gardner has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for the 2016 strangulation of his girlfriend.
The jury deliberated for about an hour before the Wednesday sentenci...
August 22, 2018
ASU donations hold tuition line
A record $40.1 million in donations and pledges to Arkansas State University during the past fiscal year helped the Jonesboro campus avoid a tuition increase this fall despite relatively stable state ...
August 19, 2018