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Chad Day

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Shoffner lived rent-free for years, then had to pay

posted: 05/22/2013 5:31 a.m. Comments 12

Martha Shoffner stayed rent-free for most of her first term as state treasurer at a law office a few blocks from the state Capitol, her landlord confirmed Tuesday.

Shoffner, 68, under watch, sheriff says

posted: 05/20/2013 12:26 a.m. Comments 4

Arkansas State Treasurer Martha Shoffner spent most of Sunday alone in a cell meant for two at the Pulaski County jail.

Man says he was bait in plan to rob drivers

posted: 05/02/2013 12:49 a.m. Discuss

Elijah Mondy Jr., and his wife, Belinda, were driving home from Wal-Mart early Monday morning when they came upon a young man lying in the street in downtown Helena-West Helena.

Sheriff closes lockup found unsafe, dirty

posted: 05/01/2013 12:03 a.m. Comments 3

HELENA-WEST HELENA — Phillips County closed its jail Tuesday after a state inspection last month found that some of the jail’s locks didn’t work, inmates had easy access to materials they could fashion into weapons and human waste was overflowing onto cell floors.

Rep. Bell stirs up hornet’s nest

posted: 04/20/2013 4:58 a.m. Comments 32

It took 132 characters and a send button for Republican state Rep. Nate Bell to rile thousands across the nation Friday, sparking a furious online backlash that had Bell backtracking by midday.

Guilty 2 remain on board

posted: 04/11/2013 4:58 a.m. Discuss

Two Helena-West Helena city councilmen withstood pressure to resign their elected positions Tuesday, less than a week after the two men were convicted of misdemeanor crimes.

2 held, 2 sought in Helena man’s death

posted: 04/04/2013 12:01 a.m. Discuss

Helena-West Helena police have arrested two men and were seeking two others Wednesday who police say were involved in gunning down a local hamburger-stand owner during a botched winter robbery.

Delta drug dealer gets 200 months

posted: 03/16/2013 4:58 a.m. Discuss

A federal judge ordered a nearly 17-year prison term Friday for a Helena-West Helena man whom federal agents recorded in 2011 complaining about the quality of cocaine he’d purchased and accusing his purported drug supplier of shorting him.

Lee County drug dealer gets 25 years

posted: 03/09/2013 5:06 a.m. Comments 2

A Lee County convicted rapist and drug dealer who shot at federal agents as they tried to arrest him in 2011 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday.

Judge cites law in dismissal of 2003 charge in girl’s rape

posted: 03/06/2013 12:05 a.m. Comments 2

An eastern Arkansas judge ruled Tuesday that prosecutors can’t pursue a nearly decade-old child rape case against a state prison inmate who served two separate sentences while Phillips County authorities thought he was a fugitive.

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