A vice president at Ouachita Baptist University has been appointed to the Arkansas Ethics Commission by Senate President Pro Tempore Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs.
A former state legislator and county judge was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and ordered to pay $123,000 restitution to the state Wednesday for his part in a bribery scheme involving a nonprofit that provided Medicaid-funded counseling services to troubled youth and adults in Arkansas.