C.S. Murphy
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Suit filed in Utah court names ex-LR lawyer, wife
posted: 12/25/2011 1:33 a.m. Discuss
Former Little Rock attorney Elgin Clemons and his wife are the targets of a lawsuit filed in a Utah federal court as part of an effort to recover more than $50 million bilked from more than 200 investors in a Ponzi scheme.
DNA links resident of state, ’97 assault
posted: 12/04/2011 4:30 a.m. Discuss
A national DNA database has connected an Arkansas man convicted of battery and drug charges during the summer to a 14-year-old sexual-assault case in Ogden, Utah.
Morgue doctor, 45, found dead
posted: 11/29/2011 5:41 a.m. Discuss
Dr. Daniel Konzelmann, assistant medical examiner at the state morgue, was found dead in his Hot Springs home early Monday morning.
2 at Crime Lab carry scars of 3 boys’ deaths
posted: 11/27/2011 5:50 a.m.
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The murders marked the careers of the two Arkansas scientists as indelibly as a bloodstain.
LR police testify in Virginia
posted: 11/22/2011 5:48 a.m. Discuss
Little Rock police investigators flew to Richmond, Va., over the weekend to testify in this week’s federal trial of a man accused in the kidnapping and beating death of a North Little Rock teenager in 2010.
Acquittal in ’96 slaying leaves 2 families in tears
posted: 10/27/2011 5:47 a.m. Comments 2
Members of two families once brought together by marriage gushed with conflicting emotions after a jury acquitted a man accused of killing his then-mother-in-law.
Kept lid on ’96 murder, jury hears ex-wife say
posted: 10/26/2011 4:30 a.m. Discuss
Reta Flowers switched from tearful to surly and back again during two hours of testimony Tuesday in the second trial of her ex-husband, who is accused of killing her mother.
Man accused in ’96 slaying starts 2nd trial
posted: 10/25/2011 5:25 a.m. Discuss
The second trial of a former Little Rock resident in the killing of his ex-mother-in-law began Monday.
Federal suit filed against LR police
posted: 10/18/2011 5:21 a.m.
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A Little Rock police detective filed a federal lawsuit Monday against his own department and the police chief, saying his father’s December 2010 shooting death was “tragic and totally avoidable.” Two off-duty police officers had no reason to enter Eugene Ellison’s apartment the night officer Donna Lesher shot the 67-year-old man in the chest, said Michael J. Laux, a lawyer hired by Little Rock detective Troy Ellison and his family, at a news conference Monday.
Drug indictees fill court
posted: 10/14/2011 6:01 a.m.
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The first court appearance for most of the people indicted in a wide-ranging federal drug and corruption probe created a tumultuous panorama at Little Rock’s federal courts building Thursday.
