John Lynch
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LR’s Osbornes hit with foreclosure suit
posted: 02/07/2012 4:49 a.m. Discuss
Metropolitan National Bank moved to foreclose Monday on Little Rock homes belonging to late millionaire businessman Jennings Osborne and his daughter, Breezy, claiming that Osborne’s widow and only child owe more than $166,000 on an $181,000 loan from August 2010.
Bail set at $1.1 million for suspect in LR rapes
posted: 02/07/2012 4:46 a.m. Comments 2
A Pulaski County Circuit judge set bail at $1.1 million Monday for a 19-year-old man accused of raping two women, one of them in front of her 4-year-old daughter, in attacks six months apart in west Little Rock.
Boy’s robbery case kept out of adult court
posted: 02/07/2012 4:41 a.m. Discuss
A ninth-grader who told police he brandished a gun during an October home invasion in Jacksonville was ordered to juvenile court by a Pulaski County Circuit judge who said he was impressed by the boy’s academics and candor with police.
Ran boy down, woman admits
posted: 02/03/2012 4:28 a.m. Comments 6
A 41-year-old Sherwood woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison Thursday for running over the 15-year-old son of a rival, an arrangement with prosecutors that will keep her under a court’s jurisdiction for up to 20 years.
Despite juror concerns, verdict stands
posted: 02/03/2012 3:56 a.m. Discuss
A juror’s second thoughts about her role in convicting a 21-year-old Little Rock man of capital murder are not sufficient under the law to overturn the results of his trial, a Pulaski County Circuit judge ruled Thursday, citing a 13-year-old Arkansas Supreme Court precedent.
Car theft, chase nets 60 years
posted: 02/03/2012 3:53 a.m. Discuss
A 44-year-old North Little Rock man who nearly killed a 70-year-old woman while fleeing police in a car he’d just stolen in an armed robbery will be 103 the next time he’s allowed out of prison.
For guilty plea, term is 50 years
posted: 02/02/2012 4:53 a.m. Discuss
A 20-year-old Pine Bluff man avoided a potential life sentence Tuesday with his last-minute acceptance of a 50-year term for killing a Little Rock father of two during a July 2010 armed-robbery attempt.
Jury rejects insanity plea, convicts veteran of murder
posted: 01/28/2012 4:22 a.m. Comment 1
A Pulaski County jury convicted a U.S. Army veteran of murdering his English-teacher girlfriend, rejecting arguments that he had gunned down the woman during a psychotic episode brought on by his Iraq Warinduced mental illness.
Life term or mental stay left up to jury
posted: 01/27/2012 5:51 a.m. Discuss
Jurors will decide today whether a mentally ill Iraq War veteran accused of capital murder in the death of his English-teacher girlfriend will spend the rest of his life in prison or face an indefinite commitment in a state mental institution.
Murder victim wanted to flee, witness testifies
posted: 01/26/2012 5:39 a.m. Discuss
A high-school teacher gunned down by her boyfriend had a “death grip” on her car keys, a sure sign she was resisting the North Little Rock man who is on trial in her death, a police investigator testified Wednesday.
