The suspect in the case involving the murder of a television anchorwoman was arrested by the police, following a tip-off resulting from their lead story on Wednesday's 10 p. m. newscasts, giving the suspect's name and picture at a news conference that the stations broadcast live.

Lt. Terry Hastings, a police spokesman, confirmed that officers arrested the suspect, Curtis Lavelle Vance, at a home in Little Rock on Wednesday night. Vance, 28, was charged with capital murder in the death of a 26-year-old television anchorwoman, Anne Pressly.

The police said Vance was a resident of Marianna, a small town in the Arkansas Delta, but had frequently been in the Little Rock metropolitan area, some 100 miles west. They said he had been arrested before for relatively minor infractions, but had no history of violent crime.

Pressly, who had a small part in the President George W. Bush biopic "W.", died on October 25, five days after being severely beaten in what police described as a random attack at her home - the beating on her head and upper torso was so severe that she never regained consciousness. A regular on the "Daybreak" program of KATV, Pressly lived in a rented cottage-style house in the affluent Pulaski Heights neighborhood, the Country Club of Little Rock only three blocks from her front door.

The Little Rock police chief, Stuart Thomas, did not disclose what led them to suspect Vance. Thomas said only that the capital murder charge was based on "a very, very solid case due to solid detective work."