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She violated probation, must undergo drug, psychological tests, judge rules
By Ginny LaRoe (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
BENTON — A woman who ran over a boy and killed him as he walked in front of his school bus in 2004 went to jail Thursday after a judge found she violated her probation. » Read story.
By Charlie Frago (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
A state panel that regulates judicial conduct announced formal charges against two judges Thursday. » Read story.
By Michael Wickline (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
Lawmakers groused Thursday about the executive director of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System traveling out of state on 115 of 246 workdays over 13 months and receiving reimbursement for trips to places where he has homes. » Read story.
Murder suspect’s tip led to remains
By Jim Brooks (Contact), Debra Hale-Shelton (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
A body discovered last month in Jacksonville was identified Thursday through dental records as a mother who had been reported missing last October in White County, police said. » Read story.
Thousands expected for cancer event but rule change bars shuttles
By Kristin Netterstrom (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
Streets in downtown Little Rock on Saturday are expected to be saturated with thousands of women and hundreds of cars as this year’s Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure won’t have access to shuttles from War Memorial Park. » Read story.
By Andy Davis (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
In June, Alexander Mayor Shirley Johnson placed an order with an Arizona company for 33 bottles of air freshener — nine spray bottles, labeled “turquoise seas,” and two dozen orangescented refills for the dispensers in the City Hall bathrooms. The company also threw in a George Foreman grill, which Johnson took home. » Read story.
By Linda Caillouet (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
On Sept. 25, a Central High cheerleader practice ended with an incident to which police responded. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
Information for the obituaries and funeral notices below was supplied to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Advertising Department by funeral homes. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
BENTON — A Benton man died Wednesday when he crashed his pickup into a tree on Waterfall Way off Arkansas 5, police said. » Read story.
Also, 8 counts added against a half brother due to stand trial in slaying
By John Lynch (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
The father of convicted child killer Kevin Banks has been indicted on gun charges by a federal grand jury that also added eight felony drug, weapon and robbery charges to Banks’ half brother, Ricky Dale Smith, who already faces murder charges. » Read story.
By Jacob Quinn Sanders (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
The Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training allowed a former Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy to keep his state law-enforcement certification Thursday despite an investigation that found he lied and misused his position. » Read story.
By Seth Blomeley (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
Nearly 10 years after leaving the U.S. Senate, Dale Bumpers says he probably can’t blame his staff for the deletion of a quote from his final speech as a senator in the Senate chamber. » Read story.
By John Lynch (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
A 32-year-old Little Rock man who brandished a gun during a melee in which a woman was shot to death last year was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
A man who admitted to five bank robberies that netted nearly $20,000 in cash was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison Thursday. » Read story.
By Linda Satter (Contact)
(Friday, Oct. 10, 2008)
A 49-year-old Ohio chiropractor who flew to Arkansas to have sex with a 17-year-old Cleburne County girl he met online, after persuading her to e-mail him sexually explicit photographs of herself, was sentenced Thursday to 7 1 /2 years in federal prison. » Read story.
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