Ambush in the Schoolyard

  • Boy shooter may be due new hearing

    Andrew Golden, the younger of two boys who killed four students and a teacher at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro two years ago, should have been allowed …

  • Boy merited insanity plea, justices told

    Andrew Golden, the younger of two boys who killed four students and a teacher at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro two years ago, should be allowed to argu…

  • Westside killers back in court

    Two boys who killed four students and a teacher at Westside Middle School two years ago were back in court Thursday for pretrial testimony in a lawsuit against…

  • State seeks out in killer boys' civil suit

    The state Public Defender Commission should not be required to pay civil lawsuit defense costs for two boys who were convicted of killing five people last year…

  • Panel says defense of boys not state's job

    The state's public defense attorneys say it's not their place to defend the two Westside Middle School shooters in an forthcoming civil trial.

  • Second Westside killer appears in U.S. court

    The second of two boys convicted in the 1998 murders of five people at a middle school outside Jonesboro appeared in federal court in Little Rock on Friday.

  • Special lyrics to echo in Jonesboro

    Two Alabama songwriters, moved by the rash of shootings in schools the past year and a half, tonight will perform a song they wrote aimed at quelling the viole…

  • School expulsions for guns drop 8%

    The number of students expelled for bringing weapons to school in Arkansas dropped by 8 percent last year, the U.S. Department of Education said Tuesday.

  • County asks judge to reconsider Jonesboro ruling

    An attorney representing Craighead County has asked a circuit judge to reconsider his ruling that requires the county pay for the legal defense in a civil tria…

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