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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge imposed a gag order Wednesday in the capital murder case against a man accused of fatally beating a Little Rock television anchorwoman.District Judge Lee Munson issued the order at the request of a lawyer for Curtis Lavelle Vance, who is charged in the death of Anne Pressly.Pressly, 26, was found beaten and unconscious in her home Oct. 20 and died five days later in a hospital...
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Black Voices Blogs (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Filed under: BlackSpin , Crime and Courts , News Black Voices Blogs : The story of the brutal murder of Little Rock news anchor Anne Pressly caught my attention right away. I try to ignore crime stories for the most part, but the slaying of this beautiful young reporter resonated perhaps because of my past profession... Read more
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Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Police have a suspect in custody in the slaying of Little Rock anchor Anne Pressly, who was found beaten and near death in her home on October 20. She died five days later. Curtis Vance was arrested last week and...
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Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The parents of a television anchorwoman beaten to death at her home said Monday their daughter was sexually assaulted during the attack, and an arrest warrant released by police says DNA evidence linked an eastern Arkansas man to the crime "with all scientific certainty."In a television interview on NBC's Today show, Guy and Patti Cannady said Anne Pressly, 26, was beaten so severely...
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Bluejay Basketball (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Turbulence I’ll say this first and foremost: I didn’t take the Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans lightly as an opponent. If there is one thing Dana Altman’s Jays teams have shown in the past 5 or 6 years, it is panache for the dramatic on the road against non-conference opponents. Vegas agreed with me, making the Jays no more than a 3-point favorite before the game. Jays fans who tuned into the Big...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in 1993. Maines spoke out for three people convicted of the slayings and alleged the stepfather was instead involved in the killings. Terry Hobbs, stepfather of Steve Branch, who was killed in 1993 with Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, filed...
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Before evangelist Tony Alamo's arrest on federal sex charges, three girls who lived at his Arkansas compound told an FBI agent that he had sexually abused them, and one said he had threatened to have "someone take care of you" if she talked, according to a newly unsealed FBI affidavit.
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Indy Star (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Indianapolis » Celadon Group announced Thursday that one of its subsidiaries has acquired the truckload, intermodal and brokerage business of Continental Express, based in Little Rock, Ark. The $24 million purchase price also includes around 400 tractors and 1,100 trailers. (Star report)
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EYEROLL :: Rationalists Unleashed (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Oh boy. Six more kids…. Six more children connected to the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries were taken into protective custody Wednesday to determine if they have been physically or sexually abused, child welfare officials said. and… LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Before evangelist Tony Alamo’s arrest on federal sex charges, three girls who lived at his Arkansas compound told [...]
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
It's September 1957. A school integration crisis is erupting in Little Rock. The last game is being played at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Elvis Presley and Pat Boone have Top 10 hits. And, in Chicago, harmonica virtuoso Sonny Boy Williamson is cutting tracks at his record company's studio.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines is the target of a defamation lawsuit by the stepfather of one of three 8-year-old boys slain in 1993.
