John Lynch

A 27-year-old drug dealer has been sentenced to six years in prison for a knife attack on a man at a Little Rock nightclub, six months after he was placed on probation for stabbing another man.

Little Rock City Director Ken Richardson's wrongful arrest lawsuit against the city over his October 2019 arrest by police is at a critical stage, with a judge preparing to decide whether there's sufficient evidence of wrongdoing to proceed to a jury trial next week.

A 23-year-old North Little Rock man has accepted a 10-year prison sentence for his role in the fatal holdup of a pizza delivery man in Little Rock four years ago.

A former Immanuel Baptist Church children's ministry worker was formally arraigned Tuesday morning in Pulaski County Circuit Court, pleading innocent to two counts each of of kidnapping and second-degree sexual assault.

A Black Little Rock police officer's claim that she was forced into a career-obstructing transfer due to her race and sex was rejected Thursday by a Pulaski County jury that learned she's been promoted to lieutenant, her salary has consistently risen and the only tangible damages claim she made -- the loss of a take-home car -- lasted only a few months before she again qualified for one.

A Pulaski County circuit judge has ordered Little Rock to reinstate three firefighters who were terminated four years ago — one who had used a belt to spank another firefighter, and two who witnessed the incident but neither intervened nor reported it. The judge concluded that the Little Rock Fire Department once tolerated spankings to informally resolve disputes, and that the three firefighters should have been disciplined and not dismissed.

A 24-year-old Pine Bluff man, said to be the leader of the Every Body Killas gang and recently accused in four Little Rock murders, ended his jury trial on Thursday -- before he had finished testifying -- by pleading guilty to a home-invasion robbery in Little Rock.

Former Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola, the lawyer for three longtime city firefighters whose firing over a spanking incident was overturned by court order last month, is asking the judge to make the city pay their legal fees and expenses, $84,442.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright ruled Monday that medical marijuana regulators wrongly awarded a cultivation license to Fort Smith businessman Bennett "Storm" Nolan and questioned whether Nolan benefited from special consideration from those regulators.

A 24-year-old Clinton man arrested in Sherwood last year with an underage female runaway has accepted a 25-year prison sentence.