Anne Pressly

Lovely TV Anchor Attacked & Beaten In Her Home From AMW: Police have found a new lead in the search for local news anchor Anne Pressly's attacker: a cashier at a Little Rock, Ark. Shell gas station told AMW that Anne's credit card was used at one of the gas pumps there the night of her attack. The employee said that there was a surveillance camera working on the premises, and that the video has been turned over to police, but investigators working the case have not confirmed this...Read Full Story

A U.S. breakfast television newswoman who had a small role in a film about President Bush has died several days after she was found beaten in her home.Anne Pressly, 26, died yesterday at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Centre in Little Rock, Arkansas, hospital spokeswoman Margaret Preston said.Miss Pressly was beaten around the head, face and neck.She had been unable to communicate with her family or police while being kept sedated in the intensive care unit.Miss Pressly was discovered on...Read Full Story

Photo: ABC News, Anne Pressly, Curtis Lavelle VancePolice in Little Rock, Ark., have apprehended a suspect, Curtis Lavelle Vance, in the brutal killing of local anchorwoman Anne Pressly, who died after being severely beaten in her home last month. Thank God they caught that scumbag. Words cannot express how sad I was when I learn this woman was brutally beaten and eventually succumbed. Why would someone do this to anyone is beyond me. I don't advocate violence but I am tired of the young...Read Full Story

The Video hopefully will follow today for those who didn't see it. Working on it right now to get it. But for now...here is the transcript. The official link is HERE___________________ ISSUES WITH JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL Taking a Post-Racial Look at Crime; Aired December 2, 2008 - 19:00:00 ET (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL (voice-over): Tonight, outrage over the Hudson and Pressly murders continues, even though cops have made arrests. America is entering a post-racial era. But I`ll show you...Read Full Story

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- 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. Anne Pressly, a 26-year-old anchor for KATV, died Saturday night in a hospital. Her mother found her brutally beaten Monday after the journalist didn't answer her regular wake-up call. Authorities have said they have no suspects. Hundreds of comments flooded the...Read Full Story

Police nab suspect in anchor’s death, seek answers By TOM PARSONS – 1 hour ago LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Police for weeks had neither a suspect nor a motive in the beating death of a popular television anchorwoman. A suspect is now in custody, but many questions remain unanswered. Officers arrested Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, at a home in Little Rock on Wednesday night — tipped to his location after police held a late-evening news conference to reveal him as their suspect, said Lt. Terry...Read Full Story

Prayer Request......and the Bottom Line is...In Little Rock, Arkansas, a local morning news anchor, Anne Pressly, was brutally attacked in her home over a week ago. Last Saturday she lost her battle for life from the severe attack. Today is her funeral and it has been a difficult time for not only her family and friends, but so many in the community, state and the world, as we all try and sort out why this could have happened to such a wonderful person like Anne.I'm sure many of you may have...Read Full Story

Browse > Home / BREAKING NEWS, BUSINESS NEWS, Celebrity, JOURNALISM- News, New Media - WEB 2.0, Social Media, Publishing / Anne Pressly, ABC’s News Anchor Dead October 27, 2008 There is still no clear motive in the death of the young journalist ABC anchor was attacked in home by unknown assailant By Isobel Scott LITTLE ROCK,Ark.(RushPRnews/Hollywood Today) 10/27/08 – Anne Pressly, Arkansas news anchor for ABC affiliate KATV, died on Saturday from her injuries. The 26 year-old...Read Full Story

Popular Arkansas anchor woman, Anne Pressly, died over the week from injuries she sustained after being attacked in her home. Doctors had said they were optimistic about Anne's stable condition while she was being treated in a local hospital. Police are calling Pressly's attack "random," and no suspects have been taken into custody. Pressly was found by her mother just 30 minutes before she was scheduled to go on the air for the morning news. Her mother decided to go check on her after...Read Full Story

MORNING CHATTER Popular Arkansas TV anchorwoman Anne Pressly may have been the victim of a random attack. The cops say they haven't found any evidence to suggest she was targeted because of her high-profile job. Pressly is the anchor of "Daybreak," the morning program on KATV - a local television station. "Right now, it's being treated as a random incident," Davis said. "It's unfortunate that it was Ms. Pressly, a news reporter, someone that's visible in the community. With what we...Read Full Story