Arkansas running out of time to resume executions
The state finds itself against a deadline because its supply of the paralytic vecuronium bromide — one of the three drugs in Arkansas' lethal drug protocol — has a June 2016 expiration date. Pharmacy...
View ArticleLittle Rock doctor pleads guilty in 'pill mill' case
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/24TRGpz ) reports that 45-year-old Shawn Brooks pleaded guilty Tuesday to a reduced charge of misprision of a felony, which is having knowledge of a felony.
View ArticleOregon man sentenced in Arkansas for child pornography
Court documents show that 33-year-old Edgar Carlstrom of Keizer, Oregon, and formerly of Bentonville, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Fayetteville to 52 months in prison.
View ArticleJurors begin deliberations in Arkansas deputy killing trial
Fred Kauffeld is charged in the May 2015 shooting death of Johnson County Sheriff's Office Auxiliary Deputy Sonny Smith. Authorities say Kauffeld shot Smith while Smith and another deputy were...
View ArticleCourt upholds $3M judgment against Gerber Products Co.
In a 4-3 ruling, the high court upheld a lower court's ruling that Gerber Products Co. should have compensated more than 800 workers at its Fort Smith facility for the time they spent changing into...
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart issues fines, sentences
May 3 DocketJean Pree Wiley, 23, assessed and paid $125 on a no driver’s license charge in 2014.Jean Pree Wiley, 23, assessed and paid $245 on a failure to appear charge in 2014.Karandes A. Conway, 22,...
View ArticleAppeals court upholds dismissal of steel mill lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes was right in rejecting Nucor Steel's attempt to stop Big River Steel from building a steel mill in Osceola, located about 20 miles away from Nucor's plant, the...
View ArticleState Supreme Court overturns death sentence in double murder
The court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Steven Victor Wertz, 66, who in 2007 was convicted of two counts of capital murder and sentenced to die for killing Kathy and Terry Watts in their home....
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart issues fines, sentences
May 10 DocketLisa Dunlap Skinner, 49, 2014 failure to appear charge was dismissed.Larry D. Jeffery, 19, 2015 fine review was dismissed.Steven King, 30, received five days in jail during a fine review...
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart hands out fines, sentences
May 17 DocketAnthony Stigger, 35, received five days in jail during a fine review in 2015.Darrell Eayne Kinley, 37, received five days in jail during a fine review in 2015.Shannon French, 21, 2016 fine...
View ArticleArkansans begin receiving payout in Apple price-fixing case
The lawsuit by 33 states alleged that Apple conspired with five publishers to fix prices of electronic books. In 2013, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Apple had...
View ArticleArkansas court upholds execution protocol, drug secrecy law
It has only seven days, however, before one of the drugs needed for the three-drug protocol expires, and it isn't clear when Arkansas will be able to resume its first executions since 2005.
View ArticleArkansas Supreme Court upholds retirement law for judges
In a 5-2 ruling, justices agreed with a lower court ruling against the four judges who had challenged the state law by arguing it's a penalty that adds an indirect requirement to the qualifications to...
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart issues fines, sentences
Arkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart issues fines, sentences May 26 Docket [...]
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart hands out fines, sentences
June 7 DocketAndrew Hoskyn, 21, 2014 fine review was dismissed.David Andrew Zornes, 38, 2014 fine review was dismissed.Roderick [...]
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart issues fines, sentences
Arkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart issues fines, sentencesJune 9 DocketRobert Bevell, 22, 2015 fine review was dismissed.Iman Tavish Jackson, 27, received a $720 fine and 30 days in jail...
View ArticleArkansas says death row inmates not entitled to new hearing
The Arkansas Supreme Court, in a 4-3 decision, ruled against the inmates June 23. Their lawyers subsequently asked justices to reconsider their decision, and requested stays of execution pending a...
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart hands out fines, sentences
June 14 DocketLabine Shundra Stephens, 39, 2014 fine review was dismissed.Michael Minor, 50, received 10 days in jail on a contempt-failure to pay fine charge in 2015.Michael Minor, 50, received a $245...
View ArticleArrest made in Walker case on Monday
Joshua's brother, Madison H. Walker, was taken into custody Thursday, June 30 and was released on a $50,000 bond, but is currently being held in Prairie County Jail, as well. He had his first court...
View ArticleArkansas County Northern District Court-Stuttgart hands out fines, sentences
June 28 DocketJimmy Lee Jones, 31, 2014 fine review was dismissed.Jimmy Lee Jones, 31, assessed and paid $245 on a failure to appear charge in 2014. [...]
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