Saturday, November 7, 2009 11:08 p.m.

Linda Satter

Lawsuit filers claim injuries from waste-burning in Iraq

By Linda Satter
Posted: November 7, 2009 4:03 a.m.

Two Cabot men who worked at air bases in Iraq in the past six years claim that they and thousands of other contractors and soldiers stationed overseas have been “poisoned” by five companies’ improper waste-disposal methods.
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Jury acquits LR man in ’08 fatal shooting

Searcy man was slain at apartments

By Linda Satter
Posted: November 6, 2009 6:03 a.m.

After a two-day trial, a Pulaski County Circuit Court jury acquitted Fredrick Blalock, 23, of Little Rock in the September 2008 shooting death of a Searcy man at the Stone Crest Apartments in southwest Little Rock.
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Ex-hospital tech gets 4 years for kid porn

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 30, 2009 6:29 a.m.

A former computer technician who worked and lived on the campus of Arkansas Children’s Hospital was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for admittedly downloading child pornography onto his home computer in 2007.
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Didn’t target Hispanics, declares policeman at profiling trial

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 29, 2009 4:40 a.m.

A federal racial-profiling trial ended Wednesday with the testimony of Alexander’s assistant police chief, who denied that he has ever singled out Hispanic motorists for traffic citations.
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Targeted in Alexander, 5 Hispanics tell court

Pulled over to raise city cash, they say

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 28, 2009 4:41 a.m.

Five Hispanic men testified Tuesday that they were victims of racial profiling when an Alexander police officer pulled them over for minor infractions in 2007 and had their vehicles towed to generate money for the city.
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3 who peeked at Pressly file get probation

Parents scold them in court

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 27, 2009 4:39 a.m.

A year and a day after the death of KATV-TV, Channel 7 news anchor Anne Pressly, who was raped and beaten in her home, a Little Rock doctor and two hospital employees were given a year’s probation and fines for snooping into Pressly’s hospital records.
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2nd man guilty in sex trade

Teen sold body to buy them crack

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 24, 2009 5:55 a.m.

A second Little Rock man admitted Friday to providing food, lodging and cocaine to a teenage girl in exchange for money she earned through prostitution.
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PB doctor freed until fraud trial

Prosecutors say physician implanted an unapproved birth-control device

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 24, 2009 5:52 a.m.

A Pine Bluff doctor was released Tuesday on his own recognizance, pending trial, after entering an innocent plea to federal charges accusing him of giving female patients a birth-control device not approved for use in the United States, then billing Medicaid for the more expensive, U.S.-approved version.
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Logger pleads innocent to timber-theft counts

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 23, 2009 3:45 a.m.

A federal judge accepted an innocent plea Tuesday from logger Tracy Clemons of Quitman, who is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of timber from Deltic Timber Corp. of El Dorado.
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Ruling says no new trial in ’03 killing

By Linda Satter
Posted: October 22, 2009 3:41 a.m.

Michael Mackool, a former Little Rock man who is serving 60 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction for the 2003 murder of Janie Ballard, his mother-in-law, saw his federal petition for a new trial dismissed on Tuesday.
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