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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Will a Little Rock jury deliver a death sentence to the killer of Arkansas news anchor Anne Pressly?

The jury convicted Curtis Lavelle Vance of murder, rape and other charges on Wednesday. It is now weighing whether to impose the death penalty on Vance, who police say admitted to beating the KATV anchorwoman with a wood-handled garden tool.

The attack shattered Pressly's face and sent her into a coma. She never regained consciousness and died five days after the Oct. 20, 2008 attack.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's the next chapter in the unlikely two-decades long survivor saga of Jennifer Schuett. A North Little Rock man charged with the 1990 attempted murder of Schuett in Texas has waived extradition, and must undergo a physical and mental evaluation, according to KTRK.

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NEW YORK - If the FBI has it right, Dennis Earl Bradford almost got away with it.

19 years ago, Jennifer Schuett was abducted, raped and left for dead at the age of eight, in Dickinson, Texas. She survived, but her assailant walked free.

Now, nearly two decades after the unspeakable attack, police have arrested Bradford, a 40-year-old welder living in North Little Rock, Arkansas, for the assault.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Curtis Lavelle Vance, the man accused of killing a beautiful Arkansas television anchorwoman, told police he beat her with a wood-handled garden tool after she awoke and found him committing a sex act beside her bed, a detective testified Tuesday.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Prosecutors have charged three former hospital workers with illegally accessing the patient records of a Little Rock television news anchorwoman brought to the hospital after being viciously attacked at her home.

In documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court, prosecutors say the three former St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center staff members improperly accessed the records of KATV anchorwoman Anne Pressly on Oct. 20, the day she was brought in, or the day after. She died Oct. 25, having never regained consciousness.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - No more collect calls for Abdulhakim Muhammad, the man accused of killing a soldier outside of an Army recruiting center in Arkansas, at least not to the press.

Muhammad called The Associated Press twice this week to discuss the shooting death of Pvt. William Andrew Long. Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle had heard enough. She sent a letter to the Pulaski County jail referencing a gag order she previously issued blocking those involved in the case from talking to reporters. The judge said the order applied to Muhammad as well.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A Muslim convert charged with fatally shooting an American soldier at a military recruiting center said Tuesday that he doesn't consider the killing a murder because U.S. military action in the Middle East made the killing justified.

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