'Widow's tax' provision in bill OK'd by House
The National Defense Authorization Act, which passed in the House of Representatives 377-48 Wednesday, contains good news for thousands of military widows in A…
The National Defense Authorization Act, which passed in the House of Representatives 377-48 Wednesday, contains good news for thousands of military widows in A…
Piney Ridge Treatment Center in Fayetteville violated federal rules at least 13 times during a 30-day period by restraining its young clients with chemical inj…
A psychiatric treatment center for children in Fordyce has been accused of negligence leading to youth-on-youth sexual assaults, according to a lawsuit in U.S.…
Cellphone text messages from a Lake City planning board member to the city's mayor, Jon Milligan, appear to promise a $20,000 scholarship for Milligan's daught…
West Memphis plans to fill a newly created department-head job by hiring Steven Jones, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to taking bribes while he was deputy director…
Former state Sen. Jake Files, who pleaded guilty last year to stealing almost $26,000 in state grant money, has moved from an Oklahoma federal prison to a hal…
Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley has informed Jacksonville city officials that an Aug. 15 meeting involving three City Council members likely v…
Jacksonville City Council member Terry Sansing says he plans to discuss with Pulaski County prosecutors next week an Aug. 15 meeting of three other City Counci…
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Courtney Goodson and University of Arkansas System board of trustees Chairman John Goodson officially divorced Thursday, accordi…
Benjamin Burris, an orthodontist who operated clinics across Arkansas, has been charged with 15 counts of bribing former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson to pass l…
Newly released FBI documents confirm that University of Arkansas System board of trustees Chairman John Goodson has been a target of a federal investigation in…
State Sen. Jon Woods strode into a building just across the street from the state Capitol, past a secretary and into the office of lobbyist Milton "Rusty" Cran…
A federal judge in Fort Smith on Wednesday denied former state Sen. Jake Files' request for immediate release from prison to home confinement after Files serve…
A federal prosecutor asked a judge Tuesday to deny former state Sen. Jake Files' request to be released immediately from prison to home confinement, saying Fil…
After serving one year of an 18-month sentence for fraud and money laundering involving a state grant, former state Sen. Jake Files has asked a federal judge t…
Robert Newcomb, lawyer for fired Little Rock police officer Charles Starks, said Monday that public comments by City Director Ken Richardson last week "aren't …
A new Little Rock Civil Service Commission regulation allowing removal of cameras and other recording devices from public hearings collapsed after about seven …
In the state's second-largest city, more stray dogs and cats these days have the run of the place.
For the second time, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has appealed to the state Supreme Court a judge's award of more than $300,000 in attorneys fees …
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson pleaded guilty Monday to accepting bribes from a Missouri nonprofit that once served as Arkansas' largest Medicaid provider…
The Arkansas attorney general's office has filed Medicaid fraud charges against a licensed professional counselor who worked for Preferred Family Healthcare In…
Another former executive with Preferred Family Healthcare Inc., once Arkansas' largest behavioral health care provider, has admitted taking part in a conspirac…
Former President Bill Clinton will speak at a Nov. 21 dinner celebration at the Little Rock Statehouse Convention Center honoring the 200-year anniversary of t…
As federal prosecutors see it, a series of $7,500 payments to former Arkansas Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson in 2013 and 2014 constituted bribery.
A federal judge on Wednesday refused to allow imprisoned former state Sen. Jon Woods and friend and consultant Randell Shelton Jr. to access sealed documents i…
The cost of pleading innocent just shot up for former state Senate leader Jeremy Hutchinson.
Former Arkansas state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson and two former top executives of a Missouri behavioral health provider pleaded innocent Thursday in Springfield, M…
A federal grand jury has indicted former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson on 12 total counts of conspiracy, bribery, theft and fraud related to his work for a Miss…
Attorneys for former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson filed new arguments Tuesday asking U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker to dismiss wire- and tax-fraud charges …
More secrecy surrounding Arkansas prisoner executions, big lottery winners and mothers' deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
The Arkansas Ethics Commission on Friday fined former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson $11,000 over violations of state campaign-finance reporting laws.
Prosecutors said Thursday that a federal judge should deny former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson's request for dismissal of wire- and tax-fraud charges against h…
A federal judge in Little Rock will allow former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson to file court documents under seal -- where they are shielded from the public -- …
Former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson has asked a federal judge to dismiss wire and tax fraud charges against him, alleging the FBI illegally obtained evidence f…
Elly Gibbons of Fort Smith, widow of a National Guard chief master sergeant and Vietnam veteran, began just a few years ago phoning and visiting her Arkansas c…
Surviving military spouses have many reasons to be frustrated and angry over the "widow's tax" or SBP-DIC Offset law, 10 U.S. Code 1451 (c)(2), organizers say.
For the first time, a new state-appointed brain trust will weigh in on proposed changes to Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act at the same time the General As…
A Missouri-based nonprofit became Arkansas' largest provider of state-funded mental health services by milking a flawed system that has drawn the attention of …
Here are the 11 people connected to Preferred Family Healthcare/Alternative Opportunities who each gave Gov. Mike Beebe's re-election campaign $2,000 on the sa…
Former Arkansas lawmakers and company executives convicted or charged so far in the federal political corruption investigation surrounding Preferred Family Hea…
Former Arkansas Sen. Jon Woods has shared a letter from federal prison addressed to President Donald Trump, offering prison labor to build a Mexican border wal…
Arkansas' largest political corruption scandal in almost two decades has led to convictions of five former Arkansas lawmakers so far -- two senators and three …
A federal judge in Fayetteville on Friday denied requests by former Ecclesia College President Oren Paris and political consultant Randell Shelton to remain fr…
Jon Woods, the former state senator who is appealing his conviction for accepting thousands in cash kickbacks in return for using his authority to award state …
One of Arkansas' biggest mental health services companies, embroiled in a federal political corruption investigation for the past 21 months, is making a second…
A former senior executive with a Missouri mental health services provider that Arkansas paid millions for Medicaid services pleaded guilty in federal court Tue…
Charlie Green, who oversaw Arkansas' publicly funded mental health services until early 2017, filed a lawsuit Monday against the troubled nonprofit that hired …
Jerry Walsh, executive director of now-shuttered South Arkansas Youth Services agency in Magnolia, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to funneling more t…
A letter from Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley to the Arkansas Supreme Court calls the county’s drug court a “catastrophe” and objects to a pla…
The future of Arkansas' oldest court for drug addicts is in question after Pulaski County circuit judges on Tuesday endorsed a restructuring plan that Prosecut…