In a ceremony almost as old as the republic, 40 people from 21 countries across the globe gathered at the Clinton Presidential Center to complete their next st…
A Pulaski County man with a history of violent criminal offenses was sentenced to 17-1/2 years in federal prison Tuesday for illegally possessing a firearm.
A local community activist who pleaded guilty in 2022 to a federal charge of possession of an unregistered destructive device in connection with Black Lives Ma…
A Craighead County attorney who pleaded guilty to threatening two federal judges was sentenced to serve 16 months in prison and was ordered to seek mental heal…
After six years without a U.S. marshal at the helm of the Eastern District of Arkansas, Cory Harris, who has served as the chief deputy U.S. marshal since Nove…
A Cleburne County man is facing a possible life sentence after pleading guilty in federal court this week to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
A former circuit judge who pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge in 2015 is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal in his latest bid to cle…
A Pulaski County woman scheduled for trial next month in connection with the sale of stolen body parts from UAMS was released from jail Wednesday after the U.S…
A Craighead County man convicted of a sex crime in Missouri in 2007 was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge in Arkansas to serve three years probation for fai…
An state inmate who filed a lawsuit against a former Saline County deputy he said beat him during an altercation in August 2021 was told by a federal magistrat…
CONWAY -- A Faulkner County woman who admitted to defrauding two lenders out of more than $40,000 in Paycheck Protection Plan money during the covid-19 pandemi…
Voters in the March 5 preferential primary and general nonpartisan judicial elections will be subjected to numerous changes in Arkansas election law which came…
A Faulkner County woman who admitted to defrauding two lenders out of more than $40,000 in Paycheck Protection Plan money during the covid-19 pandemic was sent…
A Pulaski County man indicted after an FBI investigation into drug trafficking and gang violence in Central Arkansas pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday t…
Two local attorneys and a circuit court judge are vying in the March 5 election to replace longtime Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Rita Gruber, 73, who is ret…
Two men named in a 35-person indictment that resulted from an FBI investigation into drug trafficking and gang violence in Central Arkansas pleaded guilty Wedn…
A federal judge said he will rule later following a hearing Tuesday to consider competing motions for summary judgment in the case of a Lonoke County woman sui…
A Pulaski County man indicted last year in connection with fires set at two Little Rock locations was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison last week for ars…
A jury on Monday awarded the parents of a distraught and suicidal Benton teenager killed by police in 2016 $32 million in damages for the death of their son.
A major drug conspiracy trial that was set to begin a week from today has been rescheduled for April 9 before U.S. District Judge James M. Moody Jr. for 16 of …
Municipal League attorneys defending a former Benton police officer over a fatal encounter in 2016 that claimed the life of a suicidal 17-year-old rested their…
On Thursday, plaintiffs in the wrongful death case of a Benton teen shot to death by a police officer after his mother called 911 because her son was threateni…
A former Benton police officer named in a wrongful death lawsuit in the 2016 shooting death of 17-year-old Keagan Schweikle nearly broke down on the witness st…
Sparks flew in federal court Tuesday between the mother of a suicidal 17-year-old boy who was shot to death by Benton police just over seven years ago and an a…
Jury selection and opening statements marked the start Monday of the trial in a lawsuit filed against the city of Benton, a former Benton police officer — who …
Two local attorneys and a circuit court judge are vying in the March 5 election to replace longtime Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Rita Gruber, who is retirin…
Today, more than seven years after 17-year-old Keagan Schweikle was shot and killed by a Benton police officer as he held a gun to his own head, a wrongful-dea…
With the clock winding down to a Feb. 12 trial scheduled in a 2022 35-defendant drug trafficking indictment, an eighth defendant in a drug trafficking ring has…
A seventh defendant in a 35-person indictment charging alleged members and associates of a violent street gang with drug trafficking and other crimes is facing…
It took a jury of eight men and four women about 90 minutes Wednesday to find a Michigan man guilty of traveling to Arkansas to have sex with a 12-year-old Bry…
Trial began Monday afternoon in federal court for a Michigan man accused of traveling from his home to Bryant to have sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on the…
As a February trial date looms closer for a group of defendants named in a 35-person indictment resulting from a federal investigation into drug trafficking an…
A former Bryant High School teacher is facing 13 years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court Monday to allegations that she sexually assaulted one o…
Jury selection is set to begin this afternoon in federal court in Little Rock in the trial of a Michigan man indicted on charges of enticement of a minor, prod…
Humorous messages posted on digital highway signs -- commonly known as changeable message signs -- have become almost ubiquitous in recent years, to the point …
Two people indicted in a sweeping federal investigation into violent gang activity in and around Central Arkansas that prosecutors say was fueled by drug traff…
Winter weather this week has played havoc not only with school and work schedules but has forced both the federal and state courts in Little Rock and elsewhere…
Parts of three counties in north-central Arkansas were placed under boil orders Tuesday by the Arkansas Department of Health after a pump malfunctioned at the …
An outbreak of winter weather, coming on the heels of the holiday season has had a devastating effect on blood donation.
A long-time Pulaski County Juvenile Detention Center supervisor who said he was fired last year after reporting a superior for sexual misconduct is suing Pulas…
The owners of a now-defunct youth behavioral health center located in northeast Arkansas are facing a second federal lawsuit alleging serial sexual abuse of te…
LITTLE ROCK -- A Pulaski County man arrested in 2022 on charges of drug possession and possession of a machine gun pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court an…
A Pulaski County teenager who admitted in federal court in September to selling a machine gun conversion part and and a "ghost gun," was sentenced to 57 months…
A Pulaski County man arrested in 2022 on charges of drug possession and possession of a machine gun pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court and faces a possi…
The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday reversed a ruling by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox dismissing two Freedom of Information Act requests by a Sa…
LITTLE ROCK -- A Florida man who served more than 11 years in prison there for possession of child pornography and then relocated to Faulkner County is facing …
A Pulaski County man who pleaded guilty in August 2022 in federal court to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm was sentenced this week to 10 …
A Florida man who served more than 11 years in prison there for possession of child pornography and then relocated to Faulkner County is facing between 10 and …
As fentanyl use in Arkansas and the U.S. continues to rise, an emerging threat has law enforcement keeping a wary eye out for fentanyl analogs -- synthetic com…
On Dec. 13, longtime federal court security officer Terry Edwards closed out nearly four-and-a-half decades in law enforcement that included 23 years with the …
