Stories by Linda Satter

  • Woman pleads guilty in drug-racket case

    Another defendant in a methamphetamine and racketeering conspiracy that officials say was carried out over several years in the Russellville area pleaded guilt…

  • Driver pleads guilty in landfill fraud case

    A Missouri man admitted Tuesday that he was the driver of big yellow trucks that were caught dumping waste at the Mississippi County landfill for free in 2017 …

  • Ex-union exec gets probation in theft

    A former president and business manager of the United Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 1658, a labor union based in Pine Bluff, was ordered Friday to repay $9…

  • Bank embezzler called charming gets 18 months

    LITTLE ROCK -- A Searcy woman who charmed customers and fellow employees alike during at least 15 years as a branch manager for First Community Bank was senten…

  • New Aryan Empire suspect pleads guilty

    HELENA-WEST HELENA -- Jeffrey Knox, a member of the New Aryan Empire organization whose members were indicted last year on accusations of trafficking in narcot…

  • Federal trials in state delayed by pandemic

    Concerns about a recent surge in positive coronavirus cases in Arkansas led the chief judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas to announce Friday that all fe…

  • Suspect pleads not guilty in burning police car

    Mujera Benjamin Lungaho pleaded not guilty Oct. 28 in federal court to three charges related to the Sept. 3 firebombing of a North Little Rock police cruiser a…

  • Arkansas man pleads guilty to FBI threats

    An Arkansas County man who is serving time in state prison pleaded guilty Monday in a Little Rock federal courtroom to threatening to assault and murder an FBI…

  • 7:30 won't end absentee ballots count, panel says

    After a state board clarified Wednesday that every legally submitted absentee ballot will be counted by county boards of election commissioners, even if it tak…

  • Suspect pleads not guilty in burning police car

    NORTH LITTLE ROCK -- Mujera Benjamin Lungaho pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court to three charges related to the Sept. 3 firebombing of a North Littl…

  • Suit filed over law on ballot counting

    A preemptive challenge to the potential enforcement of an Arkansas law preventing county clerks from counting absentee ballots after 7:30 p.m. on Election Day …

  • Suit filed over school hearing officer’s firing

    A federal lawsuit alleges state education officials were unduly influenced by employees of the Vilonia School District in firing a veteran hearing officer who …

  • Suit filed over school hearing officer's firing

    VILONIA -- A federal lawsuit alleges state education officials were unduly influenced by employees of the Vilonia School District in firing a veteran hearing o…

  • Man files suit over investigator job

    LITTLE ROCK -- A North Little Rock man who is a voting rights coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Pul…

  • Suit urges challenges of ballot rejections

    Absentee voters should be allowed to challenge the state Election Commission's rejection of their ballots due to signature discrepancies, as doing so "bolsters…

  • Judge accepts man’s enticement plea

    A federal judge struggled Tuesday with whether to accept a Greers Ferry man’s guilty plea to a charge of trying to entice a minor to engage in sexual acts, aft…

  • Ex-banker guilty of embezzling

    A Little Rock man admitted Wednesday to a federal judge that he stole nearly $81,000 from customer accounts in 2017 and 2018 while working as the Bank of Littl…

  • Ex-banker guilty of embezzling

    LITTLE ROCK -- A Little Rock man admitted Wednesday to a federal judge that he stole nearly $81,000 from customer accounts in 2017 and 2018 while working as th…

  • Jonesboro man facing charges of child porn

    A Jonesboro man was arraigned Wednesday in a Little Rock federal courtroom on two counts of production of child pornography and one count of attempted producti…

  • Guilt is admitted in child-porn case

    A Piggott man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of distributing child pornography, admitting that in August of 2018, he distributed images of childr…

  • Judge agrees to accept man's enticement plea

    LITTLE ROCK -- A federal judge struggled Tuesday with whether to accept a Greers Ferry man's guilty plea to a charge of trying to entice a minor to engage in s…

  • Dillard's agrees to pay $900,000 to settle claim

    Dillard's, a national department store chain headquartered in Little Rock, agreed to pay $900,000 and take other measures to resolve a race discrimination laws…

  • Sex-trafficking lawsuit dismissed

    A federal lawsuit alleging the Quality Inn and Suites in southwest Little Rock permitted sex trafficking of an unidentified woman at the hotel in 2014 was dis…

  • Missourian found guilty of fraud in landfill case

    It took a federal jury less than two hours Thursday to convict a Missouri businessman of defrauding Mississippi County and the state by bribing a landfill dire…

  • Surveillance detailed in landfill trial

    Tweety Bird and Big Bird didn’t know it, but they were under surveillance by the FBI as they delivered loads of demolition debris to the Mississippi County la…

  • Surveillance detailed in landfill trial

    LITTLE ROCK -- Tweety Bird and Big Bird didn't know it, but they were under surveillance by the FBI as they delivered loads of demolition debris to the Mississ…

  • Sex-trafficking lawsuit dismissed

    LITTLE ROCK -- A federal lawsuit alleging the Quality Inn and Suites in southwest Little Rock permitted sex trafficking of an unidentified woman at the hotel i…

  • Arkansas nursing home case said settled

    A lawsuit accusing nursing home owner Michael Morton and former lobbyist Gilbert Baker of corruptly interfering in a negligence lawsuit to cause former Circuit…

  • Trucker heads to federal trial in landfill case

    LITTLE ROCK -- The owner of a Kennett, Mo., trucking company accused of paying kickbacks to a landfill supervisor in Arkansas to evade dumping fees for numerou…

  • U.S. files discrimination suit against Dillard's

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Tuesday filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Dillard's Inc. alleging that the national department …

  • Lawsuits filed for cleared inmates

    Federal civil-rights lawsuits were filed Friday and Tuesday on behalf of two people who were ordered released from prison in 2018 after two federal judges in L…

  • Man sentenced for child pornography

    A Tennessee man has been sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for producing sexually explicit photographs of a 16-year-old Trumann girl who disappeared from…

  • Lawmen take stand in man's firebomb case

    LITTLE ROCK -- Law enforcement officers testified Thursday a North Little Rock man is suspected of throwing Molotov cocktails that ignited a police cruiser out…

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