Attorneys for a 26-year-old Conway man facing the death penalty after Little Rock police say he admitted to killing a mother and child told a judge on Thursday they are exploring a potential insanity defense, which required the judge to indefinitely postpone trial.
Imprisoned former boxing champion Jermain Taylor has been court-ordered to pay $77,901 to a 48-year-old North Little Rock man who claimed the Olympian beat him up at Taylor s Little Rock home in November 2021.
A 52-year-old Little Rock man, linked to 14 robberies and snatch-and-grab thefts across five counties in 2020, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for five Little Rock robberies, among other crimes, after throwing himself on the mercy of the court.
A circuit judge on Tuesday asked for the reversal of a court ruling earlier this month that paves the way for County Judge Barry Hyde, Pulaski County s chief executive, to eliminate her probation department as well as that of another circuit judge.
A Pulaski County jury on Thursday cleared a North Little Rock man of sexual assault after his accuser s ex-boyfriend recanted claims he d seen the defendant run from the woman s bedroom the night she reported being attacked.