The Pine Bluff Group Violence Intervention (GVI) Program Committee will host a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Pine Bluff Convention Center. The public is invited to attend.
The city of Pine Bluff Administration Committee will be sending a few items to the full council with no recommendations after Committee and Council Member Bruce Lockett and Chair Lloyd Holcomb were split with their decisions.
The first Pine Bluff City Council meeting after the news of former Executive Director of Urban Renewal Maurice Taggart s arrest brought many out to speak on the recent accusations.
A proposed ordinance to give the Pine Bluff chief of police the authority to appoint at her discretion an assistant chief of police was pulled from the agenda Monday night by Mayor Shirley Washington and the Pine Bluff City Council after City Attorney Althea Scott said that could not be done if the position was already filled.
Dressed in a suit with a smile from ear to ear for his mug shot, former Urban Renewal Executive Director Maurice Taggart was briefly in custody at the Jefferson County jail Friday morning after an arrest warrant was issued Thursday on charges consisting of 46 counts of forgery, 38 counts of theft of property and one count of abuse of office.