One of two brothers indicted on federal weapons charges related to an arrest in January near the scene of a fatal shooting pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm.
A White County man scheduled to go on trial Monday on child pornography and attempted sex trafficking charges appeared in federal court Thursday for a pretrial conference but abruptly hit the brakes with an eleventh-hour plea to all seven counts against him.
A 28-year-old Little Rock man serving a federal life sentence for conspiring to sex traffic a six-year-old girl has accepted a 30-year state prison sentence for repeatedly molesting the child, infecting her with sexually transmitted diseases and exposing her to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
An 11-woman, one-man Pulaski County jury on Wednesday rejected the bulk of the accusations against former boxing champion Jermain Taylor, clearing him of felony terroristic threatening and reducing the felony domestic violence charge to a misdemeanor.