John Lynch
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Man admits inflicting burns, fractures on boy
posted: 05/18/2013 5:16 a.m. Discuss
With a shrug of his shoulders Friday, 35-year-old Ronnie Lee Canada admitted to burning, fracturing bones and inflicting other injuries on a 2-year-old boy in Little Rock.
LR man admits to robbing murder victim, gets 40 years
posted: 05/17/2013 4:57 a.m. Discuss
A Little Rock man linked to the December 2011 murder of a drug dealer behind the Central High School football field was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after admitting to participating in the robbery that led to the victim’s slaying.
Murder suspect fit to stand trial
posted: 05/14/2013 3:54 a.m. Discuss
A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Monday set a December trial date for a homeless man accused of killing a pregnant Little Rock woman and her unborn child after state doctors deemed the defendant fit to proceed after he had spent about three weeks in the State Hospital.
Appeal abandoned, killer dog euthanized
posted: 05/12/2013 4:09 a.m. Comments 6
Nova the pit bull, deemed vicious by Little Rock city officials, has been put down after its owner decided against challenging the constitutionality of the city’s pit-bull ordinance to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
England man acquitted in shooting at nightclub
posted: 05/10/2013 5:01 a.m. Discuss
A 22-year-old England man charged in a Pulaski County nightclub shooting that wounded three people was acquitted Thursday at his second trial.
NLR man quickly convicted, gets 25 years for 2010 gunfire
posted: 05/09/2013 4:52 a.m. Discuss
A 29-year-old self-proclaimed youth minister responsible for a November 2010 Pulaski County shooting rampage authorities say was motivated by the man’s rage against relatives and former employers he believed had done him wrong was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday.
Prosecutors call 4 shootings in ’10 man’s ‘rage’ act
posted: 05/08/2013 5:07 a.m. Discuss
A 30-year-old man was “acting out of rage” over how disappointing his life had become when he went on a shooting rampage in Pulaski County in November 2010, prosecutors told a jury on Tuesday.
Judge sets child-abuse trial’s rules
posted: 04/30/2013 3:24 a.m. Discuss
A jury at the coming child-abuse trial of a 35-year-old Little Rock man can hear the child’s mother testify that the defendant once talked about hiding the boy’s body if he died, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright ruled Monday.
Legality of search is upheld
posted: 04/30/2013 3:23 a.m. Discuss
A 48-year-old North Little Rock man, facing a mandatory life sentence if convicted of robbing a Pulaski County convenience store, failed to convince a Pulaski County circuit judge to throw out the evidence against him on Monday.
Give back $28,630 taken at traffic stop, judge says
posted: 04/30/2013 12:25 a.m. Comments 4
A Pulaski County circuit judge on Monday ordered authorities to return $28,630 seized during a homicide investigation to the 37-year-old North Little Rock man it was taken from.
