Stories by Ginny LaRoe

  • Benton agrees to settle suit by retirees

    BENTON - A group of retired Benton employees who were stripped of health-care benefits under a cost-saving measure in 2004 will soon get checks from the city.

    by Ginny LaRoe October 14, 2008

  • Ruling focuses on police training

    A federal judge's order blasting a former sheriff for a deputy's misdeeds puts new pressure on agency heads to ensure officers are properly trained before gett…

    by Ginny LaRoe October 13, 2008

  • Driver in child's death goes to jail

    BENTON - A woman who ran over a boy and killed him as he walked in front of his school bus in 2004 went to jail Thursday after a judge found she violated her p…

    by Ginny LaRoe October 10, 2008

  • 74-year-old driver dies on flooded Arkansas 7

    An elderly man drowned in his overturned sport utility vehicle Wednesday morning near Camden in south Arkansas after he drove into a flooded stretch of Arkansa…

    by Ginny LaRoe October 9, 2008

  • Driver who killed child back in court

    BENTON - A B enton woman who struck and killed a boy as he crossed the street in front of a school bus four years ago was back in court Tuesday, fighting to st…

    by Ginny LaRoe October 8, 2008

  • Tax plans on ballot in Saline County

    BENTON - Saline County voters will be asked to consider two sales-tax proposals Nov. 4, one to expand 911 operations and one to start an animal-control program.

    by Ginny LaRoe October 6, 2008

  • Attorneys vie for top position in 9th district

    Two deputy prosecutors in southwest Arkansas with similar resumes are squaring off in a race to fill their former boss's job, prosecuting cases in Little River…

    by Ginny LaRoe October 6, 2008

  • Lawyer targeted for probe

    A southwest Arkansas lawyer whose license recently was yanked after he lost more than $500,000 of a couple's money is the subject of an embezzlement investigat…

    by Ginny LaRoe October 1, 2008

  • 2 dodged taxes on tobacco, state says

    Two El Dorado convenience store operators were charged Monday in one of the first criminal cases in the state targeting the sale of untaxed tobacco products.

    by Ginny LaRoe September 30, 2008

  • County judge barred from contacting wife

    The estranged wife of Ouachita County Judge Mike Hesterly on Friday obtained a temporary order of protection barring her husband from contacting her or their c…

    by Ginny LaRoe September 27, 2008

  • Inmate dead of apparent suicide

    A state prisoner suspected of shooting his estranged girlfriend and another man during a weekend furlough was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot …

    by Ginny LaRoe , BY GINNY LAROE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE September 23, 2008

  • New private school has big plans

    HOT SPRINGS - The brochure for the Hot Springs Christian School promises studies in fine arts, music, theology and business. It shows students with sparkling w…

    by Ginny LaRoe September 22, 2008

  • Sick home now energy-fit

    DONALDSON - Before power company officials showed up at their door earlier this summer talking about energy efficiency, Carroll and Sue Luten were wondering if…

    by Ginny LaRoe September 19, 2008

  • Metroplan collecting complaints on traffic

    BENTON - When Christi Nolte takes her fourth-grade daughter to school in the morning and picks her up in the afternoon, traffic backs up for blocks outside How…

    by Ginny LaRoe September 17, 2008

  • 'Help me,' are shot man's last words

    Police said a man was gunned down at a Baseline Road apartment complex late Friday, becoming the city's fourth homicide victim in four days.

    by Ginny LaRoe September 14, 2008

  • UALR raises $51 million in gifts

    The University of Arkansas at Little Rock announced on Thursday that it has raised nearly $51 million in the first three years of its first largescale fundrais…

    by Ginny LaRoe September 12, 2008

  • 10 counties in state called disaster areas

    Gov. Mike Beebe on Monday declared 10 counties disaster areas after last week's storms sent strong wind and flooding to much of the state.

    by Ginny LaRoe September 9, 2008

  • Tiny paper helping preserve history

    STAMPS - In an abandoned storefront on this city's sleepy Main Street sits more than 100 years of Lafayette County's history.

    by Ginny LaRoe August 31, 2008

  • Recycling bug bites Saline County cities

    BENTON - School children across Saline County are accustomed to discarding paper in bins destined for the landfill where it is recycled.

    by Ginny LaRoe August 24, 2008

  • 2 sales-tax plans heading to Saline County voters

    BENTON - The Saline County Quorum Court on Tuesday approved two sales-tax initiatives, one to fund an animal control program and another to expand 911 operatio…

    by Ginny LaRoe August 20, 2008

  • Benton makes plans to attract new businesses

    BENTON - When Benton officials learned that the city could miss out on getting another Harps grocery store, they came up with a plan to make sure the company w…

    by Ginny LaRoe August 18, 2008

  • Camper trailer feud becomes murder case

    BENTON - A fight over a dilapidated camper trailer led to a woman's death and murder charges against her fiance, authorities said Thursday.

    by Ginny LaRoe August 15, 2008

  • Tax to upgrade Garland County jail rejected

    Voters turned down a tax increase that would have paid for a renovation and expansion of the Garland County jail, and tax issues that will fund emergency servi…

    by Kenneth Heard , Ginny LaRoe August 13, 2008

  • 6 counties embrace anti-gun program

    Authorities in six south Arkansas counties hope to send more criminals to federal prison under a Department of Justice program aimed at curbing gun violence.

    by Ginny LaRoe , BY GINNY LAROE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE August 8, 2008

  • UALR goes completely smoke-free in fall 2009

    The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will be smoke free in the fall next year, joining four other University of Arkansas System campuses in prohibiting pu…

    by Ginny LaRoe August 7, 2008

  • Most Wanted targets state fugitive

    FORDYCE - Dallas County Sheriff Donny Ford sat down in front of a green screen Tuesday as a TV crew patted down his face with makeup, getting him ready to shar…

    by Ginny LaRoe July 23, 2008

  • Officials: Boy drowns after inhaling gas

    A 15-year-old Faulkner County boy died Wednesday after "huffing" an intoxicating gas from an air-conditioning unit, getting into a swimming pool and drowning, …

    by Ginny LaRoe July 18, 2008

  • Benton lops area it sought to annex

    BENTON - Benton has scaled back its annexation plans, saying it wants to appease a group of residents who oppose city living and to turn its focus onto a land …

    by Ginny LaRoe July 17, 2008

  • El Dorado plant axing 600 jobs

    EL DORADO - Pilgrim's Pride Corp., the largest U.S. poultry processor, said Tuesday that it will cut 600 jobs at its processing plant in this Union County town…

    by David Irvin , Ginny LaRoe July 16, 2008

  • Transit still ahead for LR suburbs

    BRYANT - Rising gas prices have prompted some car-committed suburbanites to warm up to the idea of public transit, but residents of Little Rock's bedroom commu…

    by Ginny LaRoe July 14, 2008

  • Utility: Forgot to tell public fluoride absent

    Conway Corp.'s failure to notify Conway residents of a long-term suspension in water fluoridation was simply an oversight, its chief executive officer said Wed…

    by Ginny LaRoe July 10, 2008

  • Teen admits burning cross, police say

    MALVERN - A Hot Spring County teenager told authorities he soaked a makeshift cross in lighter fluid, stuck it outside the home where a white woman and her thr…

    by Ginny LaRoe July 1, 2008

  • Cross in yard, house burned, woman says

    FRIENDSHIP - In the two weeks since a white Louisiana native and her three biracial children moved to Hot Spring County, a wooden cross has been set ablaze in …

    by Ginny LaRoe June 28, 2008

  • Another year, another raid for 'pot'

    BENTON - Saline County lawmen have been trying for years to put a man they say is a marijuana grower with a penchant for rattlesnakes out of business.

    by Ginny LaRoe June 27, 2008

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