NLR district to issue second firing letter to coach
North Little Rock School District officials said late Wednesday that they were sending a second termination notice to high school head football coach Brad Bold…
Stories by Chad Day
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Devine to direct youth services agency
A former head of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality will now lead the state agency responsible for housing and treating the state's youthful offe…
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Bolding's appeal set for NLR broadcast
A special North Little Rock School Board meeting to decide the fate of high school head football coach Brad Bolding will be broadcast live to one of the distri…
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Bolding asks for new look into case
Arkansas' high school-sports governing body should conduct its own investigation into whether star wide receiver K.J. Hill was ineligible to play for North Lit…
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Bolding to fight firing at meeting
North Little Rock High School head football coach Brad Bolding plans to appear before the School Board on Feb. 26 to appeal the district's decision to fire him…
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NLR district 'really wanted me to resign,' coach says
North Little Rock High School head football coach Brad Bolding said this week that the school district pressured him to resign before he was given notice that …
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NLR coach Bolding says firing baseless
North Little Rock High School head football coach Brad Bolding said Monday that he never recruited star wide receiver K.J. Hill to play at his school and that …
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Stepdad of player got check for $600
Conflicting accounts emerged Friday to explain a $600 check given two years ago to the stepfather of a highly recruited wide receiver at North Little Rock High…
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NLR staffer gave money to Hill's stepfather, documents say
A North Little Rock High School football staff member gave a $600 check from an outside booster organization to the stepfather of highly recruited wide receive…
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State title forfeited
North Little Rock High School forfeited more than 30 games and a boys basketball state championship Thursday because of an ineligible player on its football an…
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Bolding fired, plans appeal
The North Little Rock School District gave high school football coach Brad Bolding notice last week that it intends to fire him, the coach's attorney said Wedn…
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Teen in lockup facility state agency tries to avoid
A teenager in state custody was locked up Tuesday at a north Arkansas juvenile detention center even though the state had stopped sending youths there because …
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NLR district to fire football coach, attorney says
North Little Rock High School football coach Brad Bolding was given notice last week that the district intends to fire him, the coach's attorney said Wednesday.
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Teenager in lockup that agency avoids
A teenager in state custody was locked up Tuesday at a north Arkansas juvenile detention center even though the state had stopped sending youths there because …
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In new plots, old bones
John Rains knew he had a problem when he found the bone.
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No state kids, 2nd lockup told
The state Youth Services Division has stopped sending youths to an Independence County juvenile detention center after a state investigator found the lockup vi…
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Yell County to replace director at youth lockup
The Yell County sheriff's office will replace the administrator of its juvenile detention center, a move that follows an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette investigatio…
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State cuts off Yell County from jail kids
The state Youth Services Division announced Tuesday that it will stop sending youths to the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center in Danville until it is satis…
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Reports, lockup's video tell 2 sides of broken arm
The police officer and the deputy entered the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center just a few minutes before 8 p.m. on March 22, and a group of boys playin…
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Bound and punished
Sitting in the restraint at the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center, the girl could barely move.
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Report lauds kids lockup's new measures
The state Division of Youth Services released a report Wednesday praising action taken by Yell County officials after a youth advocate discovered that the coun…
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Layoffs begin as appeal dropped
Two behavioral health care companies began laying off employees Friday, the same day the businesses dropped their appeal of a suspension from the state's Medic…
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Hutchinson pops in at kids lockup
Gov.-elect Asa Hutchinson made a surprise visit Tuesday to the state's largest youth lockup, where he met with boys and girls housed there as well as new leade…
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Ruling upholds Medicaid cutoff
A federal judge Friday ruled in favor of the Arkansas Department of Human Services, allowing the agency to cut off Medicaid payments to two companies suspended…
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Youth lockup used restraint as punishment
One kid threw wet socks. Another flipped off a staff member. Several others beat on doors and walls in their cells and didn't stop when asked.
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In filing, 2 ask to keep getting Medicaid cash
Two mental health companies entangled in a federal bribery investigation asked a federal judge Wednesday to stop the Arkansas Department of Human Services from…
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Pay issue gets solid backing of voters
Arkansas voters on Tuesday night overwhelmingly approved an increase in the state's minimum wage and rejected allowing statewide alcohol sales, unofficial resu…
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Firms giving free care, state says
Arkansas Department of Human Services Director John Selig said two companies that are suspended from the state's Medicaid program because of a federal bribery …
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Firms' Medicaid suspensions stay
The Arkansas Department of Human Services on Monday stood by its decision to suspend from the state's Medicaid program two businesses entangled in a federal br…
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Youth unit told to scrap restraint, taped helmet
The state Youth Services Division has directed the Yell County Juvenile Detention Center to stop restraining children in a manner that the state says is "poten…
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DHS cuts off 2 firms from Medicaid cash
The Arkansas Department of Human Services on Tuesday suspended two companies from the state's Medicaid program, a day after the agency identified the owner of …
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DHS suspends 2 companies involved in bribery case
The Arkansas Department of Human Services on Tuesday suspended two companies from the state’s Medicaid program, a day after the agency identified the owner of …
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Provider accused in bribery, DHS says
The Arkansas Department of Human Services on Monday identified Ted Suhl, who owns mental-health companies that receive Medicaid funds in the state, as a person…
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Director of Youth Services to resign
The director of the state Youth Services Division said Tuesday that he will leave his post at the end of next month, a little more than a year after he was hir…
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Extended stays at youth lockup off state's radar
He was 13 when he entered the state's largest youth lockup.
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Scrutiny ongoing at lockup for kids
Officials with the state Division of Youth Services and a nonprofit disability rights group said Friday that they will work together to investigate allegations…
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Youth lockup tells group: Send authorities evidence
The contractor that runs the state's largest juvenile lockup said Tuesday that if a disability rights group has evidence of abuse perpetrated by its staff, the…
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Lockup's kids said rewarded for violent acts
Children housed at Arkansas' largest juvenile lockup reported that staff members have directed youths to bother, slap or even punch other youths in exchange fo…
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Curb restraints, lockup advised
Staff members at the state’s largest youth lockup physically restrained disruptive children in many situations that could have been defused earlier using verba…
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Teen offenders leave cells behind
The thin teenager leans against the cool cinder-block wall of a hallway separating a classroom from a jail cell.
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Texas ricin mailer sentenced to 18 years
A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former actress to 18 years in prison for mailing letters containing ricin to President Barack Obama, former New York C…
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$530,715 benefits at-risk kids
Twenty-one programs aimed at helping at-risk youths learn job skills, stay in school and control their behavior were awarded federal grants totaling $530,715, …
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Focus on assaults, group drops in on youth lockup
Monitors from a nonprofit disability rights group visited Arkansas' largest youth lockup this week as part of their investigation into what caused an increase …
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FBI boss warns of terrorist diaspora
FBI Director James B. Comey said Tuesday that terrorism remains the country's main threat, particularly Islamic extremists abroad and "home-grown" terrorists w…
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Assaults known at youth lockup
Top officials in the state Division of Youth Services were aware of "numerous" allegations of staff members assaulting youths at Arkansas' largest juvenile loc…
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Lockup youth hurt; worker fired, another quits
Injuries to a child at Arkansas' largest youth lockup over the weekend resulted in the firing of one employee and the abrupt resignation of another before he c…
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2nd employee fired at state youth lockup in April
The state Youth Services Division disclosed Friday that a second employee had been fired from Arkansas' largest youth lockup in April.
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Youth lockup assaults to get monitors' look
A federally funded disability rights group will send monitors into Arkansas' largest youth lockup in response to a near doubling of assaults reported at the fa…
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Youth lockup sees assaults soar in 2013
Arkansas' largest youth lockup reported more assaults last year than it has in each of the past five years, internal numbers from the state Youth Services Divi…
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Obama tours state's storm ruin
President Barack Obama visited this tornado-ravaged city Wednesday, promising residents that they won't be alone as they rebuild their homes and businesses.
