Update, Aug. 19, 2021: On Monday, the jury in Officer Dennis Hutchins' civil trial delivered a verdict in favor of Hutchins. Vanessa Cole remembers her older brother Roy Lee Richards Jr. as the storyteller of their tight-knit Central Arkansas family.…
Jurors in the bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker went home for the weekend after hearing closing arguments and deliberating less than two hours Friday afternoon. Deliberations will resume Monday morning in U.S. District Court in Little Rock. Jurors…
In addition to testimony jurors have heard over the past two weeks, they have a mountain of documents available for review: phone records, texts, records of donations and payments from various lobbying organizations, and a forensic analysis of those expenditures.
This story was co-published with The Daily Memphian. Though I-40 traffic is now flowing over the Hernando DeSoto Bridge for the first time in almost three months, officials with the Arkansas Department of Transportation have yet to explain how its…
Testimony about a university already tarnished by public corruption and an illegal but not uncommon campaign finance tactic dominated proceedings Tuesday in the bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker. Along the way, Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall…
A nursing home magnate, one of Arkansas’s highest-ranking jurists and a former judge in shackles were among witnesses in the first week of the federal bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker. Prosecutors sought to weave an intricate tale of…
Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Rhonda Wood testified Tuesday that she never talked with former Circuit Judge Michael Maggio about his decision to alter a jury’s award in a nursing home negligence case in 2013 — a ruling that led to…
The long-awaited bribery trial of former state Sen. Gilbert Baker, a former Republican lobbyist from Conway, began Monday with news that a juror had contracted the coronavirus. The unidentified juror had been present for jury selection Friday and contacted the…
In November 2019, two chemistry professors at Henderson State University were arrested for allegedly producing methamphetamine on campus. Documents suggest the trouble may have started much earlier.
An Arkansas Supreme Court justice and a former U.S. attorney are among potential witnesses in the federal bribery trial of former lobbyist Gilbert Baker of Conway, who once served as the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party and a state…
This story was published in partnership with The Daily Memphian. Monty Frazier was on leave when he received the phone call that ended his career. It was Tuesday, May 11, and the 51-year-old father of three had taken the week…
A new state law will soon open the door to almost any career path for some groups of immigrants, marking the latest in a remarkable series of legislative victories for Arkansas’s immigrant community. Act 746, formerly HB 1735, will allow…
