Pulaski County is calling for the dismissal of a pair of lawsuits over the Cycle Breakers probation fees imposed by deposed Circuit Judge Willard Proctor Jr., arguing that the plaintiffs waited too long to challenge the fees and disputing that they were illegally imposed.
A convicted killer is attempting to stave off his execution next week with an appeal today to the Arkansas Supreme Court of a circuit court judge’s decision on Wednesday rejecting his challenge to the state’s new lethal-injection procedures.
A 29-year-old former Sylvan Hills Middle School coach was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday after admitting to having sex with a 15-year-old student.
Deposed Pulaski County Circuit Judge Willard Proctor Jr. didn’t file for re-election Monday, ending speculation that he might seek to return to the bench five weeks after the Arkansas Supreme Court removed him from office.
A Pulaski County Circuit judge Monday fined a Hot Springs man $40,000 and ordered him to repay $22,000 in restitution to 32 victims in at least three states for defrauding them with promises of “free fish” to stock their ponds and lakes.
Deposed Pulaski County Circuit Judge Willard Proctor Jr. will have four hours Monday to decide whether to defy a state law and run for re-election to his former post.
A hearing on whether to delay mailing Little Rock tax bills so qualifying property owners can get a refund for a 2007 library-tax collection that was ruled illegal won’t happen for at least another nine days.
A Judsonia man is challenging the constitutionality of a year-old animal-cruelty law that makes the ownership of fighting chickens a felony.
The self-confessed lookout in an August holdup at a North Little Rock Chinese restaurant where five employees were beaten and bound accepted a 40-year prison sentence Thursday for promising to testify against the co-defendant authorities say was responsible for the violence.
A Sherwood man was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday for forcing his way into a neighbor’s apartment and trying to rape a 12-year-old girl.