When Harding College Associate Professor Ruby Stapleton was kidnapped from a Searcy laundromat in October 1963, her anxious students, colleagues and family had to wait...
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Calico Rock
Perched on an eye-catching limestone bluff overlooking the White River in north central Arkansas, Calico Rock can claim one of the prettiest settings of any city in the...
True Grit and the Man Who Wrote It
"People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange...
Publisher’s Note: April’s Must Do List
Spring is finally here. And for me, that means cruising around with the windows down and soaking up the sunshine – my favorite pastime. I love April because of the...
Capital Bar & Grill
By Amanda Nettles / Photography by Jamison Mosley Located in the heart of downtown Little Rock, step inside the historic Capital Hotel and find a favorite local...
Vicky Williams: A Story of Survival
Vicky Williams fell in love with her best friend. They met in the sixth grade and began dating in high school. As an interracial couple in Texas during the late 1970s,...
Texarkana’s Famous Phantom Killer, Part 2
In 1946, panic swept through Texarkana, on both sides of the Arkansas-Texas border. Over a period of three months, a man had murdered five people and wounded three...
Continuum of Care
he dining room at Little Rock's Brookdale Pleasant Hills senior living community is a bright, airy space with large windows and a cheery atmosphere....
Living Sober
aroline Ford, a recovering alcoholic, has also experienced a change in the way people view a different mental illness – that of alcohol and...
Out of the Darkness
uicide prevention became a topic of discussion when Gov. Asa Hutchinson formed the Arkansas Suicide Prevention Council. Since then, local media have...
Defeating the Stigma
ost of us know at least one person who struggles with some form of mental illness. It is very real, and while it once carried a stigma, that...
What is a Mental Illness?
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) defines mental illness as “a condition that impacts a person’s thinking, feeling or mood and may affect his ability to...