1+ week, 4+ day ago   (535+ words) The Democratic Party of Arkansas and the NAACP Arkansas State Conference are calling for a review of state police’s use-of-force policy after a video released over the weekend showed an officer pulling a man by his dreadlocks and punching him…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (942+ words) When Dezarae Manson asked a Marion County judge for a court-appointed attorney in July, she explained why in a single handwritten line. She had legal counsel, she wrote, and the Mansons were paying him. Now that she had left, she…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (489+ words) The head of Arkansas State Police said Monday he would be unable to appear before the Arkansas Legislative Black Caucus to discuss a state trooper punching an 18-year-old during a traffic stop because of pending litigation. Col. Mike Hagar had…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1843+ words) A Mountain Home nurse practitioner accused of assaulting patients during medical exams now faces 25 criminal charges and four civil lawsuits in Baxter County Circuit Court. Prosecuting Attorney David L. Ethredge filed an amended information against Joseph Riley Steves on Aug. 21. It…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (630+ words) A Marion County judge has set a February trial date for Steven M. Manson Jr., and Manson’s new attorney has filed a sweeping discovery demand that asks the state to disclose whether police used artificial intelligence to prepare reports in the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (517+ words) Skipping a court date in Baxter County is about to get more expensive than a phone call from a bondsman. At Monday’s criminal docket call in Baxter County Circuit Court, Circuit Judge Andrew Bailey kept calling names and getting no…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1193+ words) A Marion County judge told the courtroom Tuesday that Arkansas law required him to set a bond for Steven Lawrence Manson. That was the whole of what he said about it. He was right. And the law that required it…...