Stories from Tuesday, November 30, 2004

After surviving a 1990 sexual assault, Anne Ream faced the harrowing battle to regain her strength and find healing. She found it as an activist, lobbyist, and author. Her attack happened just a month after she moved to Washington, D.C., from Chicago...

The Holiday Island Suburban Improvement Board of Commissioners is pleased with District Manager Kevin Crosson's performance. Monday the board conducted a special meeting with executive session solely to review Crosson's performance in 2004. The executive session lasted 90 minutes. When the commission came back into regular session, the board voted to approve a salary increase for Crosson, approved in the 2005 budget, of 6-percent. This raises his salary to $69,332...

Eureka Springs Planning Commission will finalize recommendations for an ordinance to allow manufactured/affordable homes in R-3 zones during its Dec. 9 meeting. The commission has been working almost a year to develop an ordinance to allow the placement of manufactured homes on individually owned lots within the city limits to meet a mandate from the 2003 Arkansas General Assembly...

Mothers may try to prepare themselves to hear a lot of shocking messages about their children -- thrown out of school, fighting, hurt in a car wreck -- but one of the most devastating is the middle of the night telephone call from a daughter who says, "I have been raped."...