Attorney General Eric Holder stepped up his call for the passage of federal hate crimes legislation Thursday, arguing that the federal government needs to take a stronger stand against criminal activity fueled by bias and bigotry.
Citing three recent fatal shootings fueled by hatred and simmering anger, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday a stepped-up effort to enforce civil rights protections, and he renewed his call for expanding hate-crimes laws.
A U.S. soldier who survived a shooting this month at a Little Rock, Arkansas, recruitment center said Tuesday that he plans to stay in the Army, and he expressed gratitude for all the military has done for him and his family.
The Tennessee man suspected in Monday's attack on a recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas, was brainwashed and tortured while imprisoned in Yemen, his lawyer said Thursday.
President Obama said Thursday that he was "deeply saddened" by the shootings at an Arkansas military recruiting station that left one soldier dead and another wounded.
A man charged in a fatal shooting at a Little Rock military recruiting center had searched the Internet regarding "different locations in several U.S. cities," the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.
An Arkansas man suspected in a shooting that killed one soldier and wounded another at a Little Rock military recruiting center was angry over the treatment of Muslims, authorities said Tuesday.
An Arkansas man was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting at a Little Rock military recruiting center that killed one soldier and wounded another, authorities said.
Winter weather was blamed for at least five traffic deaths as freezing rain and sleet blanketed areas from Texas to Kentucky on Tuesday.
The job market continued to take a beating Tuesday, as six companies across several industries announced more than 11,500 job cuts Tuesday.
Attorney General Eric Holder stepped up his call for the passage of federal hate crimes legislation Thursday, arguing that the federal government needs to take a stronger stand against criminal activity fueled by bias and bigotry.
Citing three recent fatal shootings fueled by hatred and simmering anger, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday a stepped-up effort to enforce civil rights protections, and he renewed his call for expanding hate-crimes laws.
A U.S. soldier who survived a shooting this month at a Little Rock, Arkansas, recruitment center said Tuesday that he plans to stay in the Army, and he expressed gratitude for all the military has done for him and his family.
The Tennessee man suspected in Monday's attack on a recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas, was brainwashed and tortured while imprisoned in Yemen, his lawyer said Thursday.
President Obama said Thursday that he was "deeply saddened" by the shootings at an Arkansas military recruiting station that left one soldier dead and another wounded.
A man charged in a fatal shooting at a Little Rock military recruiting center had searched the Internet regarding "different locations in several U.S. cities," the FBI and Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday.
An Arkansas man suspected in a shooting that killed one soldier and wounded another at a Little Rock military recruiting center was angry over the treatment of Muslims, authorities said Tuesday.
An Arkansas man was arrested Monday in connection with a shooting at a Little Rock military recruiting center that killed one soldier and wounded another, authorities said.
Winter weather was blamed for at least five traffic deaths as freezing rain and sleet blanketed areas from Texas to Kentucky on Tuesday.
The job market continued to take a beating Tuesday, as six companies across several industries announced more than 11,500 job cuts Tuesday.
The world will be watching as Barack Obama is sworn in as president of the United States of America. In anticipation of the inauguration, reporter John Zarrella, photojournalists Dominic Swann and Greg Kilday and I traveled to some of the landmark sites of the civil rights movement to reflect on events that helped shape this historic moment.
Carlotta Walls LaNier points out the only two African-Americans in her senior class as she flips through her high school yearbook. She pauses when she sees the picture on a page dedicated to "Integration."
The man accused in the brutal killing of Arkansas television anchor Anne Pressly will appear next Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court, where he will enter a plea in the high-profile case.
DNA evidence links a man in custody to the killing of a 26-year-old Arkansas television news anchor, police say.
A suspect was arrested Wednesday night in connection with the death of Little Rock, Arkansas, television news anchor Anne Pressly, police said.
In August, just days before her daughter was to start her sophomore year of college, Dr. Lucy Sauer faced a troubling choice: Should her daughter have a device surgically implanted in her chest to control her heart rhythm?
Four men were charged Tuesday with capital murder for the fatal shootings of two students and wounding of a third near a University of Central Arkansas dormitory
Two university students gunned down Sunday were unintended bystanders and not the targets of the people who opened fire at the University of Central Arkansas, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
A shooting at the University of Central Arkansas killed two people and wounded a third, police said.
A Little Rock, Arkansas, television anchorwoman who was attacked in her home and severely beaten died from her injuries Saturday.
An Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday, several days after she didn't answer her wake-up call and was found beaten in her home
Famed scientist Richard Leakey warned that the worldwide credit crisis will be "just devastating" to scientific research in coming years, as endowment interest income drops and companies cut donations
A proposal aimed at effectively banning gays and lesbians from becoming foster or adoptive parents was cleared Monday to appear on this fall's ballot in Arkansas
The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party died Wednesday, about four hours after a shooting at the party's headquarters, police said.
Police say the 49-year-old chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party has died hours after being shot by a gunman who burst into the state party headquarters in Little Rock
Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel
An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year -- a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population
At least seven people, including three members of the same family, were killed Friday and at least 13 people were injured as severe weather swept through Arkansas, emergency officials said.
Violent storms rolling across the nation's midsection unleashed tornadoes, high winds and hail in four states and killed at least seven in Arkansas on Friday
Sen. John McCain, on the last leg of this week's tour of economically struggling regions, was campaigning alongside former rival Mike Huckabee on Friday.
For the second time in a year and a half, Darren McFadden was in the news for being involved in a disturbance outside a Little Rock nightspot. One of his brothers was being escorted from Ernie Biggs' Piano Bar in the early-morning hours of Jan. 10 when a scuffle broke out. Darren didn't join the fray and was neither arrested nor cited, but according to the police report the Arkansas running back and two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up was briefly handcuffed because he was "agitated and . . . provoking aggressive behavior." Says Darren now, "You see your brother being choked. What are you supposed to do?"
Mark Sikes was selling $700,000 a year in stick-on labels to manufacturers all over the country. But one day it hit him that he could turn his label-brokering expertise into a whole new business: selling bottled water with a custom label plastered on the front.
Strong winds and possible tornadoes roared across southern Mississippi on Friday, shredding roofs and slamming trees and power poles into homes and businesses.
At least one tornado ripped through central Arkansas Thursday evening, savaging a mobile home park and sending National Weather Service forecasters into a bunker as the storm roared overhead.
The tornado storm contributed to traffic accidents when it passed through the metropolitan area of about 500,000 people
Since the 19th century, damage surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving entire houses while keeping them intact, driving pieces of straw into tree trunks in high-speed winds, and tearing asphalt pavement away from the road like an orange peel. The following facts can help distinguish between myth and reality concerning tornadoes.
Get that confetti ready, pop the cork, and pucker up to blow your own horn, because it's time once again to plan your New Year's bash. The possibilities are endless in the South, from watching fireworks to taking a cruise to hibernating in a fine hotel. Here are some excellent Southern selections for saluting the year's last day and the beginning of the next 365.
Fifty years after federal troops escorted Terrence Roberts and eight fellow black students into an all-white high school, he says the struggles over race and segregation still are unresolved.
Stocks pared some losses but remained considerably lower Friday, continuing Thursday's steep selloff, as investors mulled more credit market woes and a jump in the price of oil.
These are some of the facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting. As of 2006, the murder rate was up by 6.7% in cities of a million or more. Some of the cities where that increase took place: • Phoenix • Miami • San Diego • Oakland, California • Corpus Christi, Texas • Grand Rapids, Michigan • Reno, Nevada • Little Rock, Arkansas Overall crime was up nationwide by 1.3% in 2006 Robberies rose 6% in 2006 Rapes dropped 2% in 2006 Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
This picture shouldn't be published. It belongs in a moldy scrapbook in some old man's attic. Its time is done. Its way of life is finished. Even the school these 42 white boys played for a half century ago did away with it. Took it down one day to paint a hallway in the early '90s, and then....
Mark Sikes was selling $700,000 a year in stick-on labels to manufacturers all over the country. But one day it hit him that he could turn his label-brokering expertise into a whole new business: s...
Q I believe in buying and holding high-quality stocks. Nearly 60% of my portfolio is in mutual funds; the rest is split among 13 stocks, including Altria, Citigroup and GE. Is that too many? --Kevi...
Weyerhaeuser Co. on Friday unveiled further closures in a string of factory shutdowns and said more changes lie ahead.
Since the 19th century, damage surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving entire houses while keeping them intact, driving pieces of straw into tree trunks in high-speed winds, and tearing asphalt pavement away from the road like an orange peel. The following facts can help distinguish between myth and reality concerning tornadoes.
It's among a business owner's worst fears: an unexpected illness puts your company at risk, forcing the sale of assets or pushing a financial burden onto relatives or partners. A recent Harvard stu...
No matter what I do, I blow whatever money I have each month. I just can't seem to save. How can I teach myself to put something away for long-term goals rather than spending everything right now?
I've always thought owning a home is a great investment for tax purposes, but I have yet to see the advantages. I've owned a home for five years now and pay between $6,000 and $7,500 a year in mortgage interest, but I don't seem to get much back at the end of the year. My refund is only about $200. Is owning a home worth it from a tax standpoint?
Concerned that the prestige of the congressional gold medal is being diluted because Congress is doling out too many of them too often, the House voted Wednesday to cap the number of medals approved each year at two and placed other restrictions on who can receive it.
Musicians including Chrissie Hynde, Mick Hucknall and Scottish band Franz Ferdinand will perform at a concert to benefit the people of Sudan's war-torn Darfur province.
Country singer Loretta Lynn is trying to gain the copyright to "Coal Miner's Daughter" and other of her hit songs.
Elizabeth Eckford recently sat down with CNN and recalled the events of the 1957-58 school year, when she and eight other African-American teenage students were chosen to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as part of that city's court-ordered directive to desegregate its schools.
Tucked away on the fourth floor of a building downtown, Elizabeth Eckford is busy tracking the daily progress of people on probation in her role as a public servant for the Pulaski County courts.
As it becomes increasingly more segregated, Little Rock School District is also inching toward complete desegregation.
Two black and two white students sit around a table at Central High School and speak in glowing terms about the racial climate and quality of education at their school -- the only working school designated a National Historic Site.
Treasury prices rose Tuesday as a $16 billion five-year note sale drew moderate demand and investors took comments from St. Louis Fed President William Pool in stride.
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark will end his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, aides said late Tuesday.
When Alltel, at the time known as Allied Telephone & Electric Co., was wiring rural Arkansas for local phone service in the late 1940s and 1950s, telecom gear was so hard to come by that the compan...
For a tycoon at the top of a crumbling country, James Riady was remarkably serene when he asked a reporter to join him in prayer. The setting was his 16-room mansion, the only structure on a man-ma...
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Herein is a potentially profitable tale of a wealthy Little Rock investor, legions of failed S&Ls and a 1989 government bailout that could be a hidden bonanza for shareholders in at least one of th...
Lately, some credit-card issuers have been making it tough for customers to dispute unauthorized charges on their bills. The Federal Trade Commission, for example, has recently filed a lawsuit agai...
WE STILL CAN'T be sure exactly what Bill Clinton meant when he promised the country change. But at least we now know who his change agents will be. His choices point to an Administration that will ...
Once Bill Clinton moves from the Governor's mansion in Little Rock to the White House in Washington, which jurisdiction will tax his $200,000 salary? Well, here we go again. Like President Bush wit...
At the moment later this month when, barring a disaster, Bill Clinton gets formally crowned as the Democratic presidential nominee, Madison Square Garden will erupt into the predictable, exuberant,...
LITTLE ROCK -- American Civil Liberties Union lawyers ((will)) represent a Ku Klux Klan group seeking to participate in a state Adopt-A-Highway anti-litter program . . . Members of the Knights of t...
If it were not so sad, it would be absolutely hilarious! I refer to your March article ''The Pros Flub Our Tax Test (Again!).'' These farcical results attained by a group of ''experts'' is surely a...
FABRI-CENTERS OF AMERICA Great growth looks to be all sewn up at Fabri-Centers of America, which runs a chain of 620 fabric stores in 35 states, most under the name Jo-Ann Fabrics. In the fiscal ye...
Geneva Green is turning a hobby into a moneymaker. She now sells the silk flowers and dried-grass arrangements she makes in the housing project where she lives. She and other low-income entrepreneu...
DOWNTOWN Little Rock, Arkansas, a handful of office buildings scattered like poker chips at the feet of the Ozark Mountains, is an unlikely spot for the richest investment bank off Wall Street. But...
MANAGING/Cover Story 44 ENVIRONMENTALISM: THE NEW CRUSADE It is expected to be not only the biggest business issue of the 1990s but a mainstream movement of massive worldwide force. Environmentalis...
ABOUT 240 MILES southeast of Bentonville, Arkansas, home of Sam Walton and his Wal-Mart empire, is a lesser-known department store chain called Dillard's. < You may not be familiar with the $2.7-bi...
Received any slick, seductive credit-card offers lately? If not, you're one of the few. Card issuers are now accelerating a promotion blitz to sign up new customers, with enticing come-ons like ''N...
BEVERAGES HAVE COME in cans for more than 50 years, but in all that time the only major improvement in consumer convenience has been the pop-top, introduced in 1962. If the industry can digest a bi...
The dizzying records of Omaha-based Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire- Hathaway, and John Templeton, the mutual fund manager who resides in the Bahamas, prove that you needn't hobnob on Wall St...
Investors have been cool toward most big retail firms since mid-1984, and the standoffish attitude understandably persists. In a disappointing Christmas season, most stores were caught with invento...
The Des Moines Register and Tribune Co. agreed to sell four newspapers, including the Des Moines Register, one of the nation's most respected dailies, for $200 million to Gannett Co., the U.S.'s mo...
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