Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies
Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to wi…
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Jim Neeley
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FAYETTEVILLE -- Ian Bryce Moore was born October 5, 1994, in Houston, Texas, to Stacey Holbrook and Richard Moore. As a child, he relocated to Hamburg, Ark. He…
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HARRISON -- Karen Peterson, age 79, of Harrison, died November 16, 2021. Visitation is 1-2 p.m., Monday, November 29th, at Roller-Christeson Funeral Home. Priv…
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Little Rock City Director Erma Hendrix, known as an unflinching voice for her ward, dies at 91
Little Rock City Director Erma Hendrix, who represented the city's downtown core for more than a decade and was known as an unflinching voice for Ward 1, died …
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100-year-old Arkansas activist dies
LITTLE ROCK -- Dorothy Davis Stuck, a pioneering Arkansan newspaper publisher, businesswoman and activist, died Thursday in Little Rock at the age of 100.
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Farmington school officials give annual report
FARMINGTON -- Principals and administrators for the School District delivered their annual report to the public at the School Board meeting on Oct. 26.
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Gifting big league foul balls sweet way to connect with fans
OAKLAND, Calif. -- It began when lifelong baseball fan Kimberlee MacVicar intimated that in her 52 years, she had never corralled a foul ball.
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Australian offers free coffee, chat from his kitchen window
SYDNEY, Australia -- It all started when Rick Everett walked out of his home in Sydney and put up a sign on his kitchen window that read: "Free coffee to comba…
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Schools seek aid with web in North Little Rock
NORTH LITTLE ROCK -- The Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub will help the North Little Rock School District navigate hurdles posed by the covid-19 pandemic durin…
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Then there were none: ‘Baby Peggy’ was a big star of silent movies
Diana Serra Cary, an author, film historian and probably the last surviving child superstar of the silent film era nearly a century ago, who spent decades comi…
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A star at age 3, washed up by 8, tiny actress survived life-threatening stunts
During her brief career as a silent-film star, "Baby Peggy" came perilously close to death time and again. The child actor — a toddler when she debuted in 1921…
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Oddly named stage, screen, TV actor
Rip Torn, the free-spirited Texan who overcame his quirky name to become a distinguished actor in television, theater, and movies, such as Men in Black, and wi…
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Teacher, poet true to Arkansas roots
Arkansas-born poet Carolyn "C.D." Wright was known for her investigative journalistic style of poetry, and she often spent hours inspecting topics she wrote ab…
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Obituary deadlines
The deadlines for submitting obituaries to run in the Thanksgiving Day issue are earlier than normal today. For obituaries running in the Little Rock edition, …
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Obituary deadlines
The deadlines for submitting obituaries to run in the Thanksgiving Day issue will be earlier than normal Wednesday.
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Chronicler of bizarre neuological cases
Dr. Oliver Sacks, whose books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with…
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Ex-spy chief in Pakistan, critic of U.S.
Hamid Gul, who served as the head of Pakistan's spy agency from 1987 to 1989 and was deeply involved in the country's policy toward neighboring Afghanistan whe…
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Doctor who kept thalidomide out of U.S.
Frances Kelsey, a Canadian doctor known for her tenacity in keeping a dangerous drug given to pregnant women off the U.S. market, has died at age 101.
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Wife of retired Supreme Court justice
The wife of retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens died Friday, the court announced.
