Linda Satter
Recent Stories by Linda Satter
2 in vote-bribe case get home detention
posted: 05/23/2013 5:07 a.m. Discuss
Two players in a 2011 scheme to bribe Crittenden County voters to elect Hudson Hallum to the state House of Representatives were sentenced this week to probation and home detention.
Shoffner let out of jail; filing cites a bribe Saturday
posted: 05/21/2013 12:44 a.m. Comments 8
State Treasurer Martha Ann Shoffner made her first appearance in federal court Monday in Little Rock, two days after an FBI informant secretly recorded her taking $6,000 cash hidden in a pie box in return for the lucrative state business she directed his way, a criminal complaint says.
Judge blocks 12-week limit for abortions
posted: 05/18/2013 5:27 a.m. Comments 4
A federal judge on Friday prohibited the state of Arkansas from enforcing a new law that outlaws most abortions at or after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Two groups to ask judge to hold off state abortion law
posted: 05/17/2013 12:11 a.m. Comments 4
Eyes across the nation are focused on Arkansas as abortion-rights proponents and attorneys for the state prepare to face off in the first hearing on a lawsuit challenging a state law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.
State’s U.S. court bid to block suit against abortion law fails
posted: 05/16/2013 5:05 a.m. Discuss
A federal judge Wednesday rejected the state’s requests that she dismiss both a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Arkansas abortion law and a motion for an injunction preventing the law from automatically going into effect on Aug. 16.
Group loses bid to join 12-week abortion hearing
posted: 05/11/2013 4:56 a.m. Discuss
A hearing next week in which two Little Rock abortion doctors will seek to halt the implementation of a new state law that bans most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat is detected, will proceed without the intervention of a Wynne-based counseling group, a federal judge decided late Friday afternoon.
Judge puts off heroin trial of 8
posted: 05/10/2013 5:02 a.m. Discuss
A heroin-trafficking trial focusing on two fatal overdoses among young adults in central Arkansas has been postponed until Sept. 2, 2014, because of a pending U.S. Supreme Court case.
Group files to join abortion-law defense against suit
posted: 05/09/2013 4:55 a.m. Discuss
A Wynne-based organization that provides counseling and other services to pregnant women asked Wednesday to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new state law prohibiting most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Bomber Mann’s wife due half disability benefits, judge rules
posted: 05/09/2013 12:59 a.m. Comment 1
Randeep Mann, a former Russellville doctor who was convicted of orchestrating a nearly fatal grenade attack in 2009, must turn over half of his past and future disability-insurance benefits to be applied to the $1.2 million he owes in restitution, Chief U.S. District Judge Brian Miller declared Wednesday.
Child-porn receiver gets 17 years in cell
posted: 05/08/2013 12:10 a.m. Discuss
A Pulaski County man who admitted creating sexually explicit photographs and videotapes of a 12-year-old girl, whom he is also accused of sexually abusing, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years in prison on a federal charge of receiving child pornography.
