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22, May 2012 - El Dorado, AR Officials: 3 dead in explosion old Ark. oil well - KNOE TV8
EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) - Officials say three workers are dead following an explosion at an abandoned oil well near El Dorado in southern Arkansas. Union County Emergency ... Three men have asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to stop them from being executed ...
22, May 2012 - El Dorado, AR Kan. remap work continues as court deadline looms - Times Union
(AP) — Kansas legislators worked Thursday on new proposals for redrawing the state's political boundaries, but a federal court could take redistricting ... Steve Abrams, an Arkansas City Republican who has drawn multiple proposals for fellow conservatives.
22, May 2012 - Hot Springs National Park, AR Beebe says he wanted to boost black vote - Sentinel-Record
HELENA-WEST HELENA — Gov. Mike Beebe testified in federal court Tuesday that he wanted to keep the black voting-age population high in an east Arkansas Senate district, but that he and the redistricting panel he chaired had to consider all of ...
22, May 2012 - Ticketmaster Asks Court To Reconsider Ruling On Ticket Fees
LITTLE ROCK — Ticketmaster is asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act applies to the company’s fees.
22, May 2012 - Slip excludes jurors from 2 counties
A human typing error in a computerized database inadvertently prevented residents of St. Francis and White counties from serving as jurors and grand jurors in federal court in the Eastern District of Arkansas from 2009 through 2011, U.S. District Clerk Jim McCormack announced Friday.
22, May 2012 - Helena, AR McDaniel to testify in redistricting trial
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and a state lawmaker who says a redistricting panel improperly lowered the number of black voters in his district are expected to testify in federal court.
22, May 2012 - Little Rock, AR LR's Judge Arnold to head secret federal court - Arkansas Times
8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Morris "Buzz" Arnold of Little Rock has become presiding judge of a secret federal appeals court in Washington. From the blog of Legal Times: Arnold, appointed to the Eighth Circuit in 1992, will serve as ...
22, May 2012 - Helena, AR Crumbly made political threats over state senate lines - Baxter Bulletin
HELENA-WEST HELENA — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel testified ... McDaniel told a three-judge federal court panel that Sen. Jack Crumbly, a fellow Democrat who is black, told him last year that he wanted the new Senate electoral ...
22, May 2012 - Appeals court tosses lawsuit over state hospital patient’s suicide
LITTLE ROCK — A federal appeals court today upheld a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by the daughter of a woman who committed suicide while an Arkansas State Hospital patient.
22, May 2012 - Helena, AR McDaniel To Testify In Ark. Redistricting Trial
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and a state lawmaker who says a redistricting panel improperly lowered the number of black voters in his district are expected to testify in federal court.
22, May 2012 - Helena, AR Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says race not only factor - Today's THV
HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says a state ... McDaniel testified in federal court on Wednesday that Sen. Jack Crumbly told him that he and his supporters would oppose McDaniel in any potential future race ...
22, May 2012 - Helena, AR Trial begins today in redistricting lawsuit
LITTLE ROCK — A lawsuit over whether the state’s 2011 legislative redistricting plan weakens the voting strength of blacks in eastern Arkansas or preserves it goes to trial today in federal court at Helena-West Helena.
21, May 2012 - El Dorado, AR Appeals court upholds decision to dismiss case concerning Arkansas State Hospital death - El Dorado
... court on Tuesday upheld a judge’s decision to dismiss federal claims filed by the family of a woman who killed herself at the Arkansas State Hospital. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a district judge who dismissed the fe...
21, May 2012 - Arkansas redistricting case heads to court - RealClearPolitics
A federal judge is considering a challenge to a newly redrawn state Senate district in eastern Arkansas. The lawsuit was filed by Sen. Jack Crumbly, who's running for re-election for Senate District 24. Crumbly claims that the state's Board of ...
20, May 2012 - Alba man pleads guilty to bank robberies - Joplin Globe
Arkansas and Illinois to pay in-state rates to go to MSSU. Michael D. Manis, of Alba, pleaded guilty today in federal court to robbing banks in Joplin, Webb City and Springfield in February and March of this year. May 18, 2012 Jasper County Commissioners ...
20, May 2012 - Little Rock, AR LR districts oppose ending desegregation agreement
Three Little Rock-area school districts are asking a federal judge to deny Arkansas' attempt to end a desegregation settlement agreement that has required the state to pay the schools more than $1 billion since 1989.
20, May 2012 - Little Rock, AR No hints at violence in sovereign citizen Jerry Kane's file - Memphis Commercial Appeal
In April 2006, a Cincinnati agent recommended closing a case involving Kane because an assistant U.S. attorney said there was no apparent violation of federal criminal ... County Circuit Court authorized the Arkansas State Police to destroy ...
20, May 2012 - Texarkana, AR Hawker Beechcraft files for bankruptcy protection Thursday - Arkansas City Traveler
Hawker Beechcraft, which is based in Wichita, said in a statement that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal bankruptcy court in New York to expedite ... our capital structure," Robert Miller, CEO of Hawker Beechcraft Inc ...
19, May 2012 - Judge dismisses part of lawsuit over Birds Point - Beaumont Enterprise
The Court of Federal Claims had awarded $5.78 million to the Arkansas commission, finding that the corps destroyed and degraded more than 18 million board feet of timber by deviating from a water-control plan. But a higher court reversed the trial judgment.
19, May 2012 - Appeals court assigns gas rights at Ark. coal mine
A federal appeals court has ruled that holders of coal rights at a mine in Arkansas' Sebastian County do not also own the natural gas rights.
19, May 2012 - Jefferson Thomas - Daily Telegraph
In 1954 the US Supreme Court had ordered that such segregation in American ... the biggest public high school in the state of Arkansas with 1,780 pupils, tested the federal government's resolve to enforce the order. The showdown that followed shocked ...
19, May 2012 - Jonesboro, AR AT&T to Pay Missouri Muslim Woman $5M in Harassment Case - Insurance Journal
was awarded $811,949 in St. Louis County Circuit Court in a case against the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. That same year, a Jonesboro, Arkansas, jury ordered AT&T to pay $1.3 million to two former employees fired for attending a ...
19, May 2012 - Roundup of Arkansas editorials - WJTV.com
Northwest Arkansas ... self with a court of law. The mayor, Greg Hines, took offence. For his part, he says if TFFRF (may we call you TFFRF?) has a problem, it can "bring a team of lawyers and sue us." Oh, Lord. Must we make a federal case ...
19, May 2012 - Fayetteville, AR Football: Three Hogs Released From Jail After Posting Bond - Arkansas News Bureau
FAYETTEVILLE ... to the Washington County Detention Center website, after spending Saturday night in jail. Humphrey and Peterson each posted $3,500 bond. Wade posted $2,500 bond. The three were arrested by the University of Arkansas Police ...
19, May 2012 - Wife of ex-congressman's brother dies - KNOE TV8
William Jefferson has died after suffering a severe head ... federal claims filed by the family of a woman who killed herself at the Arkansas State Hospital. A federal appeals court has upheld a judge's decision to dismiss federal claims filed by the ...
19, May 2012 - Local AM Buzz: Former Jefferson County Jailer Due in Court, Police to Release NLR Double Homicide V
A woman who worked as a jailer in Jefferson ... to Arkansas Children's Hospital to be evaluated. Early Voting Starts, Ballot Error Discovered in Faulkner Co. Early voting begins Monday for the May 22nd primary that features a number of state and federal ...
19, May 2012 - Appeals court upholds key voting rights provision - KNOE TV8
The provision requires state, county and local governments with a history of discrimination to obtain advance approval from the Justice Department, or from a federal court in Washington ... This Hour: Latest Arkansas news, sports, business and ...
19, May 2012 - Fayetteville, AR Arkansas shuts out Tennessee 8-0 in SEC play - Wrcbtv.com
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - DJ Baxendale allowed just two hits and Matt Reynolds and Derrick Bleeker had three RBIs apiece to lead Arkansas to an 8-0 victory ... The Tennessee Valley Authority was in federal court Thursday morning over the removal of more ...
19, May 2012 - Dismissal upheld in case of woman who killed self - Beaumont Enterprise
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a judge's decision to dismiss federal claims filed by the family of a woman who killed herself at the Arkansas State Hospital. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a district ...
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