An advocacy group for the disabled called on Gov. Mike Beebe today to close the Booneville Human Development Center because of inadequate patient care, including the recent death of a resident who choked on a sandwich.

Is 65 the new 50? I’d like to think so.

Cathy Ludlum says she has a great life, but since childhood she’s been aware not everyone thinks so.

I am utterly spent by the time my father lands in the emergency room, shortly after 1 a.m. on a cold January night.

In almost every room people were sleeping, but not like babies. This was not the carefree sleep that would restore them to rise and shine for another day. It was the sleep before — and sometimes until — death.