Andy Davis

Police beat

Boyfriend held on battery charge A Little Rock man accused of shooting his live-in girlfriend in the head and arm in front of her son was arrested Friday on a charge of first-degree domestic battery, police said.
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Property-line dispute rolls across cemetery

Upset visitors find tire tracks on graves

In the Gravel Hill community in rural White County, a barbedwire fence marks the western border of Gray Cemetery, where area residents have buried their dead more than 120 years.
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Alamo, 75, gets 175 years

Evangelist ‘wed’ girls young as 8

A judge Friday sentenced evangelist Tony Alamo to 175 years in prison, saying it was “hard to imagine” the damage inflicted on the young girls the preacher took as “wives” and kept under his strict control.
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Prison security official fired over contraband

The official in charge of security at the prison that houses Arkansas’ death row has been fired after internal investigations found he improperly disposed of contraband cigarettes and knew about an inappropriate sexual relationship between staff members but failed to take action, a prison spokesman said Thursday.
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Legislators tour new prison for infirm convicts

In a newly completed prison barracks at the Special Needs Unit in Malvern, rows of concrete cubicles stand ready to provide a place for inmates to sleep and store their belongings. Nearby, a space for inmates to congregate and watch television opens into a sunlit courtyard where inmates could exercise or just get some fresh air.
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Police beat

Masked man robs Subway, police say A robber stole an undisclosed amount of money from a Subway restaurant and a customer during a holdup in southwest Little Rock on Sunday morning, police said.
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Millions cut from prisons’ budget

Many state prison inmates remain in county jails

While more than 1,500 state prison inmates take up space in county jails, hundreds of prison beds now under construction in Malvern are likely to sit empty because the state has no money to staff them, state prison officials said Monday.
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Parents no-shows in Alamo case

A day after a couple who belong to the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries failed to show up for a hearing on the custody status of their children, including a 4-month-old boy, an advocate for the parents said in an interview that she has not heard from the parents and has no idea where they are.
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Gag order tight at church kids hearing

Testimony in 2nd day on 9 taken from Alamo ministry in ’08 traffic stop

On the second day of hearings on the custody status of children who were removed from the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, a judge admonished attorneys, witnesses and other to abide by his gag order, which bars participants from commenting on the proceedings.
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2 Alamo dads said to face loss of children

Arkansas child-welfare officials recommended Monday that the parental rights of two more fathers who are members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries be terminated, a move that would clear the men’s children to be put up for adoption, an advocate for the parents said Monday.
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