LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dustin McDaniel is speaking at a Forrest City Chamber of Commerce event in his first public speech since admitting to an extramarital relationship.
McDaniel is to speak Thursday night at the chamber's banquet at East Arkansas Community College. A spokesman said McDaniel
...LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court is slated to hear a challenge from a death row inmate convicted in a 2007 slaying.
The state's highest court is expected to hear oral arguments Thursday in the case of 34-year-old Brandon Eugene Lacy.
Lacy claims he had ineffective counsel leading up to his conviction and death sentence in
...NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Businesses and individuals who claim BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico cost them money have been paid more than $1 billion through the company's class-action settlement with private plaintiffs' attorneys.
Court-supervised claims administrator Patrick Juneau says payments
...NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee wildlife officials say the deer season concluding was a good one that colder weather would have improved even more.
The count stood at about 165,000 on Jan. 4 with two days of the season and a youth hunt on the following weekend remaining. That was about 3,000
...BOLIVAR, Tenn. (AP) - The widow and mother of a Mississippi man accused of a Tennessee murder-kidnapping are scheduled to appear in court after they were indicted.
Teresa Mayes and her mother-in-law, Mary Frances Mayes, are scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in district court in Bolivar. The indictments, which were handed down by a grand jury
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