Stories by Adam Wallworth

  • To protect and to sell?

    In Clarksville and Fort Smith last year, two law enforcement agencies sold 261 firearms and netted more than $35,000.

    by Adam Wallworth , Lisa Hammersly May 6, 2012

  • Crystal Bridges director pleased with art ruling

    A $30 million deal between Fisk University of Nashville, Tenn., and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to share in an art collection is heading back to the…

    by Adam Wallworth April 25, 2012

  • Hogs’ football security draws look over gifts

    Arkansas State Police commanders are reviewing the long-standing practice of providing security to the Razorbacks football team after questions were raised abo…

    by Adam Wallworth April 21, 2012

  • Newton County jail taking shape

    Newton County Sheriff Keith Slape didn’t try to contain his excitement as he watched his new jail cells pull into the parking lot on a flatbed tractor-trailer.

    by Adam Wallworth April 16, 2012

  • Ruling on court funding cues suit

    A lawsuit filed against Madison County District Judge Orville Clift is the next step in the debate over how to fund the district court, Huntsville Mayor Kevin …

    by Adam Wallworth April 14, 2012

  • State police auditing what troopers get at UA job

    The Arkansas State Police is conducting an audit of gratuities troopers receive for providing security for the Arkansas Razorbacks and former Coach Bobby Petri…

    by Adam Wallworth April 12, 2012

  • No bid to edit out 2nd rider, captain says

    Razorbacks head football coach Bobby Petrino asked a state police captain April 2 if he would be required to identify Petrino’s passenger in a motorcycle accid…

    by Adam Wallworth , Lisa Hammersly April 10, 2012

  • Passer-by says Petrino vetoed 911-call offer

    University of Arkansas football Coach Bobby Petrino and his female passenger, a UA employee, asked a man who passed their motorcycle accident Sunday not to cal…

    by Tom Murphy , Adam Wallworth , Lisa Hammersly April 7, 2012

  • Push is on for VFW post at UA; auxiliary required

    The creation of the nation’s first Veterans of Foreign Wars post on a university campus hinges on its organizers’ ability to create an auxiliary group that mee…

    by Adam Wallworth April 5, 2012

  • Canines, handlers help out lawmen

    Anyone who’s been lost in Johnson County in the past few years, whether on purpose or by accident, has likely met bloodhound Finnagus Sage and his handler, Sue…

    by Adam Wallworth April 2, 2012

  • Bill to restore funds passes Senate

    Newton County Sheriff Keith Slape is excited by the prospect of Congress restoring $38,460 he was counting on to run his office but thought was lost because of…

    by Adam Wallworth March 20, 2012

  • Pea Ridge battle relived for crowds

    The smell of black powder filled the air Friday as Confederate and Union re-enactors exchanged salvos on the Bentonville square in front of more than 2,000 sch…

    by Adam Wallworth March 10, 2012

  • Theater district hit in Branson

    Michael Haygood was helping 3 Redneck Tenors hone their act late Tuesday when tornado warnings shooed the performers from Branson’s New Americana Theater just …

    by Adam Wallworth , Bill Bowden March 1, 2012

  • Kingston man leads drive for liquor sales

    A Kingston man is collecting signatures for a ballot issue on whether to allow packaged alcoholic beverage sales in Madison County.

    by Adam Wallworth February 15, 2012

  • Newton County expects new jail up by August

    Newton County Sheriff Keith Slape hopes he’ll be booking inmates into his own jail again by mid-August, more than three years after voters approved a half perc…

    by Adam Wallworth February 6, 2012

  • Ozark Medieval Fortress closes indefinitely

    The Ozark Medieval Fortress, a 13th-century-style French castle being constructed by hand in Boone County, has closed indefinitely, founder Michel Guyot said F…

    by Adam Wallworth January 24, 2012

  • In foreclosures, tenants blindsided

    Calvin Stover assumed he would have a place to live as long as he paid rent, but that all changed Dec. 13 when a Benton County sheriff ’s deputy forced him out…

    by Adam Wallworth January 23, 2012

  • Husband found fit to stand trial in wife’s death

    A judge Thursday found that Richard “Dickie” Kidd is competent to stand trial on a capital-murder charge stemming from his wife’s slaying nearly three years ag…

    by Adam Wallworth January 6, 2012

  • Drugs by force at issue in court

    A Springdale man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia has spent more than three years in federal custody while his attorneys fight the government’s effort to …

    by Adam Wallworth January 3, 2012

  • K2 seized in police raids on 2 stores

    Sebastian County prosecutors said Thursday that they are deciding what charges to file and against whom to file them after police raided two Fort Smith conveni…

    by Adam Wallworth December 30, 2011

  • VFW aims for UA campus post

    Establishing a Veterans of Foreign Wars post at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is part of the organization’s broader effort to reach out to a young…

    by Adam Wallworth November 27, 2011

  • Trucking firm to pay in fatal crash

    A U.S. District Court jury in Harrison has ordered a Kentucky trucking company to pay $7 million in damages for sending an unqualified driver on a dangerous tr…

    by Adam Wallworth November 13, 2011

  • Peruvian student’s case put on hiatus

    Federal immigration authorities are no longer trying to deport a University of Arkansas student whose parents brought him to the United States as a child.

    by Adam Wallworth November 11, 2011

  • Murals help inmates to heal

    Hidden in the mural that adorns many of the walls of the Northwest Arkansas Community Corrections Center are details that offer a glimpse of the life of its re…

    by Adam Wallworth November 2, 2011

  • Newton County last using postal routes

    Newton County is the last county in the state using postal routes instead of physical addresses for mail delivery and emergency services, but the conversion is…

    by Adam Wallworth October 23, 2011

  • Trail accents art, nature in state

    Turning visits to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville into a vacation anchored in Eureka Springs is the goal of organizers for the Arkansas A…

    by Adam Wallworth October 22, 2011

  • Police say impersonator pulled over 2

    Harrison police said they are investigating two reports less than a week apart of a man with a blue light in his car stopping female drivers.

    by Adam Wallworth October 15, 2011

  • Deer coach remains held on drug charge

    Deer High School basketball coach John Jacob Thompson remained in the Johnson County jail Friday after his arrest in Clarksville earlier this week by the 5th J…

    by Adam Wallworth October 8, 2011

  • Court gunfight deemed justified

    Officers were justified in using deadly force to end James Ray Palmer’s attack on the Crawford County Courthouse, Prosecuting Attorney Marc McCune said in a le…

    by Adam Wallworth September 20, 2011

  • 19 counties do immigration checks

    Suspects arrested in 19 Arkansas counties that are part of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program will have their immigration status checked, regar…

    by Adam Wallworth September 7, 2011

  • Congress hopeful seeks backing of Green Party

    Rebekah Kennedy announced Saturday that she will seek the Green Party nomination for the 3rd Congressional District seat and also launched her party’s petitio…

    by Adam Wallworth September 4, 2011

  • Greenwood official, dad accused of bullying man

    Criminal summonses for misdemeanor disorderly conduct were issued Thursday for a Greenwood alderman and his father, accused of accosting a man circulating a pe…

    by Adam Wallworth August 21, 2011

  • Student welcomes U.S. shift on aliens

    A University of Arkansas student facing deportation hopes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s shift in enforcement priorities will give him enough time …

    by Adam Wallworth August 20, 2011

  • Jail group focuses on training

    Arkansas jail administrators are working together to keep pace with the changing challenges of county lockups — including prisoner lawsuits that are an inevita…

    by Adam Wallworth August 20, 2011

  • 2 found dead in Carroll County

    The Carroll County sheriff’s office is investigating the deaths of a man and woman found shot to death in a mobile home in Oak Grove.

    by Adam Wallworth August 2, 2011

  • UA alumni act cut from homecoming

    Several members of the Razorback Alumni Band were frustrated to learn that the University of Arkansas won’t have room for them at this year’s homecoming game, …

    by Adam Wallworth July 31, 2011

  • Seminar focuses on dogged police work

    Officers from four agencies spent the past week taking turns getting battered and bruised by Belgian Malinois and German shepherds as part of a K-9 decoy train…

    by Adam Wallworth July 27, 2011

  • Group again submits tax-vote petitions

    The leader of a group seeking a referendum on Fort Smith’s 1 percent prepared-food tax delivered a stack of petitions Friday that he believes will be more than…

    by Adam Wallworth July 9, 2011

  • Cyber-crimes unit nets 1st child-porn arrest

    An illegal alien living in Barling was the first person arrested in a child pornography case handled by the state attorney general’s newly created cyber-crimes…

    by Adam Wallworth July 7, 2011

  • Canvasser ordered to leave park

    Liz Armstrong wasn’t quite sure what to think when two Fort Smith city employees kicked her out of the city’s Independence Day celebration for gathering signat…

    by Adam Wallworth July 6, 2011

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