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Two former members of convicted evangelist Tony Alamo’s ministry have been awarded $33 million each after they sued Alamo for ordering them to be beaten.
by The Associated Press - June 2, 2011A woman testified Wednesday that her son getting slapped in the face and struck with a wooden paddle when he was 14 and a member of the Tony Alamo Christian ...
by Andy Davis - June 2, 2011After the second time he was beaten at the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries compound in southwest Arkansas, Spencer Ondrisek testified Tuesday, he would stay ...
by Andy Davis - June 1, 2011A civil trial is set to begin Tuesday in Texarkana for convicted evangelist Tony Alamo.
by The Associated Press - May 30, 2011An evangelist convicted of taking young girls across state lines for sex rehired the attorney he fired earlier this week, according to court documents filed ...
by By Jeannie Nuss, The Associated Press - May 18, 2011A Pulaski County judge on Thursday ordered a special prosecutor to release transcripts and documentary evidence from at least two murder trials in the 2005 s...
by Debra Hale-Shelton - May 13, 2011In his fifth letter to the court, filed Monday, confessed soldier killer Abdulhakim Muhammad claims to have gunned down a man in Nashville, Tenn., several ye...
by John Lynch - April 12, 2011A May 11 hearing was set Friday to determine the amount of restitution that former Russellville physician Randeep Mann must pay for orchestrating an explosio...
by Linda Satter - April 9, 2011Facing the possibility of owing more than $1 million in restitution to his victim, the Pope County doctor convicted of masterminding the bombing that maimed ...
by John Lynch - April 8, 2011A judge Tuesday dismissed a capital-murder charge against Gary Dunn, whose case has twice ended in mistrials in the 2005 slaying of Arkansas Tech University ...
by Cathy Frye, Debra Hale-Shelton - April 6, 2011Kevin Jones, who was acquitted in the killing of his girlfriend, Nona Dirksmeyer, filed a civil suit Wednesday in Pulaski County Circuit Court against specia...
by John Worthen - April 2, 2011With her husband facing as much as $1.7 million in court-ordered restitution, the wife of the Pope County doctor who orchestrated the bombing that maimed the...
by John Lynch - April 1, 2011Attorneys for a West Memphis man sentenced to die for the 1993 slayings of three West Memphis boys have asked a judge to approve new evidence-testing in an e...
by Kenneth Heard - April 1, 2011A circuit judge has ordered an evidentiary hearing for three men convicted of the 1993 slayings of three West Memphis 8-yearolds to be held between Oct. 1 an...
by Kenneth Heard - March 19, 2011An attorney for the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries on Wednesday acknowledged that the church’s lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Human Services has...
by Andy Davis - March 17, 2011Capital-murder defendant Gary Dunn, who is accused of killing Arkansas Tech University student Nona Dirksmeyer, will go to trial for a third time Aug. 1.
by Cathy Frye - March 11, 2011A Pope County circuit judge has set an Aug. 1 date for the third trial of Gary Dunn on a charge of capital murder.
by The Associated Press - March 10, 2011The Little Rock School Board is seeking input from the community on what it should look for in a superintendent.
by Arkansas Online - March 4, 2011Former Sharp County developer Wayne Watkins, who returned to Arkansas last week after four years in Mexico, remains in custody at the county jail in Ash Flat.
by C.S. Murphy - March 1, 2011Prosecutors are seeking a sentence of life in prison for the Russellville doctor convicted of bombing the chief of the Arkansas Medical Board and nearly kill...
by The Associated Press - February 28, 2011A district judge set bail for developer Wayne Watkins at $106,910.20 Thursday, but Watkins will remain in the Sharp County jail at least through the weekend ...
by C.S. Murphy - February 25, 2011A Sharp County deputy is driving fugitive developer Wayne Watkins from Texas to Ash Flat today to face a felony theft charge and one-time clients who say he ...
by C.S. Murphy - February 23, 2011A developer accused of defrauding real estate investors in Sharp County was arrested at a Houston airport Monday as he returned from Mexico, where he had bee...
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports - February 22, 2011HARDY - For two decades, people in this northcentral Arkansas town saw Wayne Watkins as a visionary who created resort developments along the scenic Spring R...
by Amy Upshaw, C.S. Murphy - February 22, 2011When victims of Wayne Watkins' failed land deals turned to government agencies for help, they felt further victimized.
by Amy Upshaw, C.S. Murphy - February 22, 2011Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Monday that he plans to file a lawsuit on behalf of consumers against Sharp County developer Wayne Watkins, whose condu...
by Amy Upshaw, C.S. Murphy - February 22, 2011Hardy developer Wayne Watkins, who is wanted on a felony theft charge in connection with failed land deals and believed to be in Mexico, was reported to have...
by Amy Upshaw - February 22, 2011Three trials. Two defendants. No convictions. After Gary Dunn’s most recent mistrial - his second - special prosecutors said they would try him a third time ...
by Cathy Frye - February 6, 2011For the second time in nine months, the capital-murder case against Gary Dunn has ended in a mistrial.
by Cathy Frye - January 29, 2011More than three hours after jurors began deliberations in Gary Dunn’s capital-murder trial Thursday, the judge sent them home, saying they could eat dinner a...
by Cathy Frye - January 28, 2011