A Little Rock-born grandmother who appeared in the movie "The Blues Brothers" died last week at her home in Altadena, Calif., as a wildfire raged through the community.

Born in Little Rock in 1929, Dalyce Curry, or “Momma Dee” as she was known to family, lived in Altadena, where she died in her home at the age of 95 amid the Eaton Fire last week.

Although all of Curry’s family mementos, including numerous scrapbooks, were destroyed in the blaze, one prized possession — a 1981 blue Cadillac parked in front of her home that she had planned to rehab and rent to Hollywood production companies — was unscathed.

A Little Rock woman has been sentenced to more than a decade for stealing human remains and transporting them across state lines to sell them.

A 37-year-old Little Rock woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her role in transporting stolen human body parts, including fetuses, out of Arkansas.

A Little Rock woman accused of selling stolen body parts online has been sentenced after a plea deal. Candace Scott Chapman was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. She was charged with selling 20 boxes of stolen body parts from medical school cadavers to a Pennsylvania man for nearly $11,000.

A Little Rock woman who pleaded guilty to selling body parts from a mortuary she worked for to a self-described “oddities collector” from Pennsylvania was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison by a federal judge who called the offense conduct “some of the worst I’ve ever seen.

A Little Rock elementary school principal sent a letter to school families after a student’s death. The letter from Principal Don Porter of the Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy in Little Rock acknowledged the death of an eighth-grade girl.

Candace Chapman Scott, 37, of Little Rock, will serve a total of 15 years in federal prison for transporting stolen human body parts--including fetuses--out of Arkansas and conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

She settled in Los Angeles, where she never became a star but did rub shoulders with some of the elites of old Hollywood, including backing up singer Pearl Bailey, being an extra in a scene with Diana Ross in "Lady Sings the Blues" and being mentored by the first Black woman to ever sign a movie contract.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Officials with the UAMS Police Department are searching for a missing woman last seen on January 8 in Little Rock. 30-year-old Jacklyn Bailey was last seen leaving UAMS in a 2004 Blue Chevy Cavalier with AR license plate ASD57P.