After six days of testimony from judges, elected officials, voters, a redistricting expert and competing elections experts, the decision of whether to significantly change how Arkansas elects judges to its highest courts rests with U.S. District Judge James M. Moody.
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton urged a federal court on Friday to dismiss part of a federal lawsuit challenging Arkansas' congressional redistricting map, which splits the state's most populous county into three separate districts.
A jury of nine men and three women took less than a half-hour to return triple guilty verdicts in the case of a Drew County man tried in federal court on three counts of methamphetamine distribution.
The trial of a Little Rock boxer indicted on sex trafficking charges by a federal grand jury began Monday with jury selection, opening statements and testimony from two prosecution witnesses.