"Is he gonna turn the switch, or what's he gonna do?" At 9 a.m. Tuesday, the five men in the coffee clatch at McDonald's were manning their usual stations. None planned to go to the Turner Center, where the president's helicopter was supposed to meet a motorcade of a dozen black Suburbans, white government SUVs and local police cars. ...more

October 28, 2009

"A bank robbery in progress at Surefire Bank, 3582 Hilton Lane," crackles the dispatcher's voice on the loud speaker. ...more

November 5, 2008

Flowers and candles piled up Sunday outside the home where a TV anchorwoman was found brutally beaten, as tributes poured into the Web site of the Little Rock station where her colleagues mourned her death. ...more

October 27, 2008

A black night, a slick road and high winds turned an evening of socializing with friends into a frightening brush with disaster that left two young women trapped in a local retention pond. ...more

December 22, 2007

Sultana Volaitis pulled up to the charred building, rolled down the driver-side window and rubbed her eyes. ...more

December 10, 2007

Sultana Volaitis pulled up to the charred building, rolled down the driver-side window and rubbed her eyes. ...more

December 10, 2007

For months before investigators descended on Leisure Drive on Saturday, neighbors had talked about the body buried behind a mobile home there. ...more

October 22, 2007