Friends and colleagues regularly used two "L words" loyalty and leadership Saturday to describe Dr. Jefferson Davis Farris Jr., the sixth president of the University of Central Arkansas who died Friday at age 81.

With April Fool's Day less than a week behind and the Final Four weekend under way, it's time to explore the seemingly new direction being taken by our nation's leader ...

After looking at all of our local news content published in 2007, the Log Cabin newsroom staff determined these stories or issues to be the top 10 of 2007:

... becoming maybe the fifth most newsworthy person statewide, falling in behind the governor, football coach, basketball coach and athletic director. His native state to which he was returning was small and sparsely populated. It was customary that ...

... opportunity to play another sport without taking away from their academics," said former Hendrix men's basketball coach and athletic director Cliff Garrison, another member of the committee. "Some of us went to a game at Sewanee (Tennessee ...

... assorted musings, notes and observations from the sports scene: FOOTBALL AT HENDRIX Former Hendrix men's basketball coach and athletic director Cliff Garrison was on the committee and sat through the debate when the college transitioned from scholarship ...

... interviewed him for the Ivan H. Grove Story that broadcast on KASR in 1982. Garrison, the longtime Hendrix basketball coach and athletic director who accepted a certificate honoring Grove on behalf of Ellis, who couldn't be at the meeting, said ...

... Intercollegiate Conference. "Does anybody remember when we started this?" said former Ouachita Baptist basketball coach and athletic director BIll Vining, who actually helped start the event from scratch. "The AIC disbanded in 1994, then schools ...

ACharles Ripley maintains that his basketball success at Little Rock Parkview was more the result of attraction than recruitment.

... later, we were married." Cliff Garrison of Hendrix College worked with Sherwood when Garrison was head basketball coach and athletic director. Garrison estimated Sherwood worked at Hendrix three or four years, leaving in 2003. "Karl worked ...