LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – A car smashed through the front window of a store on Cantrell Road Wednesday afternoon.

According to The Tennis Shoppe owner Harry Hutchinson, who spoke with THV11 off-camera, the driver of the vehicle said she mistook her gas pedal for the brakes and accelerated into the store. An employee was reportedly injured in the accident and was taken to a nearby hospital.

Hutchinson said the store window will be boarded up and business will be closed for the time being.

The Tennis Shoppe is located on the 8200 block of Cantrell, across from Reservoir Park.

The Little Rock Zoo will soon be throwing a birthday party for the elephants. Join the zoo for gifts, barn tours, cake smashing and more on March 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

• Place presents in the elephant yard at 9:30
• FREE Barn Tours from 10:30-2:30
• Elephant Cake Smashing at 2:30

Other activities include kids area, biofacts, and conservation awareness stations. Elephant Paintings will be sold to benefit elephant conservation and enrichment.

There will be two behind-the-scenes packages to bid on:

1) Elephant Painting Experience-choose your colors, watch the elephant paint, and personal photo opportunities

2) Elephant Washing Experience-Grab a brush and scrub an elephant's back! There will be personal photo opportunities

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UAPB) –   Recycled and Repurposed tire treads are the artist medium for creating whimsy, imaginative and nostalgic sculptures.  Danny Campbell, a Dumas native and professor of art at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) has more than 25 new works exhibited at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Campbell spends countless hours sifting through tire treads, automobile parts and other unique remnants found on Arkansas bi-ways and highways.  The materials gathered are not all usable and the process of using this material can be painstaking and difficult to manipulate, but Campbell lets the process unfold organically. 

Campbell’s life was almost claimed by a flying tire tread from an eighteen-wheeler striking the hood and window of his vehicle while he lived in Atlanta.  Although he was not injured, that moment had an everlasting effect on him and his art.