Ex-county worker admits to devising, partaking in fraud
LITTLE ROCK -- A former landfill supervisor for Mississippi County pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge of honest services mail fraud, admitting he devis…
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Suit filed over mask brawl frivolous, LR restaurant says
A Little Rock steakhouse took issue Tuesday with allegations in a federal lawsuit filed last week over a June 27 brawl inside the restaurant between two groups…
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Class-action status in landlord's lawsuit gets judge's approval
LITTLE ROCK -- A landlord who contends the city's rental inspection code requires searches that violate the constitutional rights of landlords and tenants alik…
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Hearing nears on 3 of state's abortion laws
Attorneys challenging and defending three abortion laws passed in 2019 by Arkansas legislators are preparing to face off Sept. 23 in oral arguments, via videoc…
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Dog-at-work suit heads to trial
BENTON -- Later this month, a federal jury will be asked to decide if a Benton man is entitled to take his dog to work with him.
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Suit blames Little Rock restaurant in brawl over distancing
A federal lawsuit alleging negligence and racial discrimination was filed Thursday over a June 27 brawl that broke out inside Little Rock's Saltgrass Steakhous…
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Drug case defendant sentenced
A Clarksville man was sentenced Friday to nearly 22 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine conspiracy that involved members of a white supre…
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Drug case defendant sentence: 21.8 years
A Clarksville man was sentenced Friday to nearly 22 years in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine conspiracy that involved members of a white supre…
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2 men get 15 years in guns case
Two men with at least three previous convictions apiece for violent felonies or serious drug offenses were sentenced Thursday to 15 years each in federal priso…
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Ex-internet tech specialist gets 18 month sentence in fraud case
A former internet technology specialist at the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health in North Little Rock was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in feder…
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Ex-internet tech specialist at toxicology center gets 18 months in fraud case
NORTH LITTLE ROCK -- A former internet technology specialist at the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health in North Little Rock was sentenced Thursday …
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School-funds embezzler gets four-year term
A former business manager for the fiscally distressed Marvell-Elaine School District was ordered Tuesday to spend four years in federal prison for embezzling $…
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Dog-at-work suit heads to trial
Later this month, a federal jury will be asked to decide if a Benton man is entitled to take his dog to work with him.
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U.S. attorney hires county prosecutor
A Craig-head County deputy prosecuting attorney has joined the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Arkansas as a special assistant U.S. attorney…
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Postal worker gets prison for pot-theft scheme
The last of five postal workers who admitted opening packages at a Little Rock mail facility in 2016 in search of marijuana to steal was sentenced Wednesday to…
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U.S. attorney hires county prosecutor
LITTLE ROCK -- A Craighead County deputy prosecuting attorney has joined the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Arkansas as a special assistant…
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2 suits on no-knock raids by Little Rock police dropped for now
Two of four federal lawsuits filed last summer to challenge the constitutionality of no-knock raids carried out by Little Rock police were temporarily dismisse…
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Judge rejects another fee request, says Little Rock law firm inflating costs
A federal judge has issued another scathing order denying a fee request from a Little Rock law firm that specializes in labor disputes, accusing the firm of un…
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Judge rejects another fee request, says law firm inflating costs
LITTLE ROCK --A federal judge has issued another scathing order denying a fee request from a Little Rock law firm that specializes in labor disputes, accusing …
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Jurisdiction ruling sends trafficking suit back to circuit court in Pulaski County
A woman's lawsuit alleging she was a victim of sex trafficking at the Motel 6 at 400 W. 29th St. in North Little Rock was remanded back to the Pulaski County C…
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Motorcycle crash is focus of lawsuit
LITTLE ROCK -- A federal jury is scheduled to decide in November whether Plumerville's assistant police chief acted reasonably in parking his SUV across both l…
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Rehearing sought in abortion ruling
Two groups that challenged four 2017 laws restricting abortion in Arkansas on Friday asked the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in St. Louis to reconsider…
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Emergency room staffers awarded $9.4 million
A federal jury awarded more than $9.4 million to an Arkansas-based group of about 175 emergency room doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants who…
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Arkansas-based ER staffers awarded $9.4M in insurance lawsuit
A federal jury in Little Rock has awarded more than $9.4 million to an Arkansas-based group of about 175 emergency room doctors, nurse practitioners and physic…
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Emergency room staffers awarded $9.4 million in lawsuit
LITTLE ROCK -- A federal jury awarded more than $9.4 million to an Arkansas-based group of about 175 emergency room doctors, nurse practitioners and physician …
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Judicial-election suit rescheduled for trial next year
It will be another year before a federal lawsuit challenging the way judges are elected to the Arkansas Supreme Court and the Arkansas Court of Appeals goes to…
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Judge rejects early release of program defrauder
A federal judge in Little Rock has denied a request for compassionate release from a woman serving 12½ years for defrauding a taxpayer-funded program to feed …
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Positive test for coronavirus prompts delay of fraud trial
A federal jury trial scheduled to begin last week for Seanta L. Hammonds of North Little Rock, who is accused of bank fraud, has been rescheduled to begin Nov.…
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Ruling dissolves block on Arkansas abortion laws
More than three years after a federal judge in Little Rock blocked the enforcement of four newly enacted laws restricting access to abortion in Arkansas, a fed…
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Court lifts ruling against 4 Arkansas abortion restrictions
A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Friday vacated a Little Rock district judge’s July 28, 2017, injunction blocking t…
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Corruption scandal figures given release; Cranford, Paris to finish time out of prison
The federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Thursday that two major players in a public corruption scandal involving state legislators have been released to home d…
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Cranford and Paris, both linked to corruption case, released from prison early
Milton “Rusty” Cranford, 59, a former lobbyist from Bentonville, was released Wednesday to either home detention or a halfway house after serving just over eig…
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Attorney: Cranford to get out of prison, serve his time at home
Milton "Rusty" Cranford, a former Arkansas lobbyist who was sentenced in November to seven years in federal prison for his role in a fraud and bribery scheme i…
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Lawsuit over '11 police shooting at Little Rock mall settled
On Monday, just over three weeks before a federal jury was to begin scrutinizing a Little Rock police officer's shooting of two men at Park Plaza mall more tha…
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Lawsuit over 2011 police shooting at mall settled
LITTLE ROCK -- On Monday, just over three weeks before a federal jury was to begin scrutinizing a Little Rock police officer's shooting of two men at Park Plaz…
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Nurse practitioner admits to kickbacks
A federal judge on Tuesday accepted a nurse practitioner’s guilty plea to a charge of violating the federal anti-kickback statute after she admitted scheming w…
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West Memphis drug trafficker gets 250 months
An investigation into high-level drug trafficking in and around West Memphis between 2015 and 2017 has resulted in a federal prison sentence of 20 years and ei…
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West Memphis drug trafficker gets 250 months
LITTLE ROCK -- An investigation into high-level drug trafficking in and around West Memphis between 2015 and 2017 has resulted in a federal prison sentence of …
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Motel sex-trafficking suit transferred to federal court
A lawsuit filed last month in Pulaski County Circuit Court alleging that the North Little Rock Motel 6 allowed sex trafficking on the premises last year has be…
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Man shot by FBI in Little Rock to remain behind bars
A Little Rock man, who was shot Tuesday by an FBI agent as he reportedly tried to drive through a line of police vehicles that encircled him in a store parking…
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Rx fraud case nets 4th plea of guilty
A North Little Rock man on Wednesday became the fourth person since late June to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud Tricare, a federal health-care program, …
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Nurse practitioner admits to kickbacks
LITTLE ROCK -- A federal judge on Tuesday accepted a nurse practitioner's guilty plea to a charge of violating the federal anti-kickback statute after she admi…
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Past-crimes debate ties up pot-case sentencing
The instigator of a 2017 shootout inside the now-defunct Power Ultra Lounge nightclub that injured 28 people and focused national attention on Little Rock's ga…
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Plea guilty in Tricare fraud
A Little Rock woman admitted Wednesday in a federal courtroom that she received $89,800 in kickbacks for forwarding fraudulent, pre-filled prescriptions to her…
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Term 15 years in online child-sex case
A 34-year-old Carlisle man was sentenced Wednesday in federal court to 15 years behind bars for arranging to meet up with a father and daughter to have sex wit…
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Girlfriend pleads guilty in Arkansas jail escape; recaptured suspects await trial
The girlfriend of a man accused of leading a Russellville-based white supremacist group that directed a violent methamphetamine ring pleaded guilty Thursday to…
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Woman accused of $2 million loan fraud
A woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she fraudulently obtained nearly $2 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans meant for small businesses affec…
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Girlfriend pleads guilty in Jefferson County jail escape
The girlfriend of a man accused of leading a Russellville-based white supremacist group that directed a violent methamphetamine ring pleaded guilty Thursday to…
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Woman accused of $2 million loan fraud
LITTLE ROCK -- A woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she fraudulently obtained nearly $2 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans meant for small b…
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Little Rock woman accused of $2M Paycheck Protection Program loan fraud
A Little Rock woman was arrested Thursday on charges that she fraudulently obtained nearly $2 million in Paycheck Protection Program loans meant for small busi…
