Stories by Chad Day

  • Judge knocks Manafort plea deal

    The judge in one of Paul Manafort's criminal cases threw a wrench Thursday into special counsel Robert Mueller's plans for cooperation from President Donald Tr…

    by Chad Day October 12, 2018

  • Trump declassifies FBI papers

    President Donald Trump on Monday declassified a trove of documents related to the early days of the FBI's Russia investigation, including portions of a secret …

    by Chad Day September 18, 2018

  • Judge tosses Manafort's Mueller suit

    WASHINGTON -- A federal judge in Washington on Friday threw out a civil lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman that sought to chall…

    by Chad Day April 28, 2018

  • Democrat says lid on emailers' names

    WASHINGTON -- The White House counsel's office is refusing to tell a committee on Capitol Hill which of President Donald Trump's aides used private email accou…

    by Chad Day October 21, 2017

  • Ex-CIA chief: Heard talk on cleric

    WASHINGTON -- Former CIA Director James Woolsey has accused President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, of participating in a dis…

    by Chad Day March 26, 2017

  • Jury’s still out on jailing truants

    FAYETTEVILLE — The 15-year-old girl shuffles into the courtroom, eyes downcast. Thin with long, wavy hair, she rubs her hands nervously.

    by Chad Day December 20, 2015

  • 2 teens who fled center captured

    Two teenage boys committed to the state Youth Services Division who ran off from a Northeast Arkansas residential treatment center Tuesday morning were capture…

    by Chad Day , Emily Nitcher November 25, 2015

  • Judge named to finish Simes' 1st Circuit term

    Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Wednesday that a former assistant U.S. attorney and Phillips County district judge will replace a circuit judge who died earlier …

    by Chad Day October 22, 2015

  • Simes remembered for fairness, faith

    L.T. Simes II grew up in the impoverished Arkansas Delta, the son of a disabled man who believed his children could do anything.

    by Shea Stewart , Chad Day October 13, 2015

  • Circuit Judge L.T. Simes dies at 65

    An east Arkansas circuit judge who was the first black man to be elected to his position in Phillips County died Saturday.

    by Chad Day October 12, 2015

  • DHS unit proposes to oversee child jails

    The Youth Services Division presented several possible changes to Arkansas' juvenile-justice system Wednesday, including putting the division in charge of moni…

    by Chad Day October 1, 2015

  • Dumas officer among 6 held in federal drug case

    A Dumas police officer was charged Thursday with selling marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine as part of a drug-trafficking conspiracy that federal authoriti…

    by Chad Day September 11, 2015

  • Cause of teen's injury at lockup in dispute

    The cause of a teenager's broken collarbone at a south Arkansas juvenile-treatment center remains in dispute three months after it happened.

    by Chad Day September 4, 2015

  • Teen must go to adult jail, judge decides

    A Pulaski County Circuit judge on Thursday denied a 17-year-old's request that he remain in the county juvenile detention center to continue receiving special …

    by Chad Day August 28, 2015

  • Ex-jail guard charged with HIV offense

    A former White River Juvenile Detention Center guard charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old boy at the lockup now faces, regarding the teen, two counts…

    by Shea Stewart , Chad Day August 22, 2015

  • Lockup fistfights now fist bumps

    Mike May walks past locked cell doors at the youth lockup in Danville, and teenage fists slowly pop through square slots.

    by Chad Day August 9, 2015

  • Denied school while jailed, teen's filing says

    A 17-year-old charged as an adult has accused the Pulaski County jail in a court filing of locking him and other teenagers in cells for 23 hours a day, seven d…

    by Chad Day August 7, 2015

  • 2 face charges in broken arm at youth jail

    A special prosecutor has filed felony charges against two former Yell County law enforcement officers who were involved in breaking a 13-year-old boy's arm in …

    by Chad Day July 21, 2015

  • Teen in state custody racks up college credit

    Randy Hassel stood at a lectern, and a smile broke across the 18-year-old's face as he announced his plans to attend the University of Arkansas Community Colle…

    by Chad Day July 4, 2015

  • Teens in state custody rack up college credit

    Randy Hassel stood at a lectern, and a smile broke across the 18-year-old's face as he announced his plans to attend the University of Arkansas Community Colle…

    by Chad Day July 3, 2015

  • Youth lockup guard accused of sex abuse

    A guard at the White River Juvenile Detention Center in Batesville has been arrested on charges that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old boy in the lockup's em…

    by Chad Day July 1, 2015

  • Police inquiry substantiates boy, 6, abused

    Arkansas State Police child abuse investigators substantiated 10 different allegations of abuse or neglect of a 6-year-old Bella Vista boy whose parents are ac…

    by Chad Day June 18, 2015

  • Injured man who tried to enter Air Force base dies

    The rifle-toting man shot by security personnel as he tried to breach a gate at Little Rock Air Force Base on Monday had a history of paranoia and believed tha…

    by Chad Day , Scott Carroll June 17, 2015

  • Search on at youth lockup for runaway

    A 17-year-old boy who ran away from guards at the state's largest youth lockup near Alexander on Saturday was still missing Monday, but Arkansas Youth Services…

    by Chad Day June 16, 2015

  • Plea is guilty for fraudulent Medicare bills

    A former north Arkansas social worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraudulently billing Medicare for more than $71,000 worth of counseling sessions he never perfo…

    by Chad Day June 10, 2015

  • Silence led to no case for Duggar

    An Arkansas State Police corporal who gave Josh Duggar "a very stern talk" in 2003 about the teen's improper sexual conduct started the clock on the time limit…

    by Chad Day , Doug Thompson May 23, 2015

  • Teen in sex case jailed for 5 days

    A 15-year-old girl sexually exploited by a human-trafficking ring spent five days locked up in a juvenile-detention center because Arkansas State Police invest…

    by Chad Day May 8, 2015

  • Trafficking charge draws FBI probe

    The FBI has begun a criminal investigation into human trafficking in Arkansas after the arrest of a Wynne woman and the rescue of a 15-year-old girl who had be…

    by Chad Day May 5, 2015

  • Helena man faces federal gun charge

    A federal grand jury indicted a Helena-West Helena man Wednesday who authorities say illegally possessed two handguns, one of which was stolen.

    by Chad Day April 9, 2015

  • Bill on infant deaths clears panel

    A bill that would require reporting all sudden infant deaths and other unexpected child fatalities to the state child abuse hotline passed in an Arkansas House…

    by Chad Day March 26, 2015

  • Child death reporting law clears House committee

    LITTLE ROCK -- A bill requiring all sudden infant deaths and other unexpected child fatalities be reported to the state child abuse hotline passed a House comm…

    by Chad Day March 26, 2015

  • Coach asks NLR board for hearing

    North Little Rock High School head football Coach Brad Bolding has formally requested a hearing before the School Board to contest his firing, the second such …

    by Chad Day March 21, 2015

  • NLR coach appeals firing, requests hearing

    North Little Rock High School head football coach Brad Bolding has filed a letter of appeal contesting his firing and requesting a hearing before the school bo…

    by Chad Day March 20, 2015

  • Boosters in NLR say grant misused

    A nonprofit booster club has raised new concerns over a $7,500 taxpayer grant awarded to the North Little Rock School District to pay for practice clothing for…

    by Chad Day , Claudia Lauer March 12, 2015

  • District questioned on NLR sport gear

    A nonprofit booster organization paid for about $7,500 worth of athletic apparel that the North Little Rock School District received state grant money to purch…

    by Chad Day , Claudia Lauer February 26, 2015

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