Lincoln County News

7, 1909 The Penitentiary Board yesterday issued an order for the payment of $15,000 out of the penitentiary fund to the Urquhart estate to be applied on the purchase of the state farm in Lincoln county and the transfer of $15,000 Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

LITTLE ROCK a ' The U.S. 65 bypass at Grady in Lincoln County is opening today, the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department says.

Grady - Motorists accustomed to slowing way down for this Lincoln County town along U.S. 65 southeast of Pine Bluff will be able to maintain open-highway speeds now as they pass around the community.

At Christmas, Joy implores a reluctant Earl to pretend to still be her husband for the sake of her visiting parents, who she assumes wouldn't approve of Darnell.

A former top aide to Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas has pleaded not guilty to charges of smuggling contraband into a prison.

A contract to widen the last section of U.S. 65 between Pine Bluff and Lake Village to four lanes has been tentatively awarded to a Pine Bluff company, a state Department of Highway and Transportation spokesman says.

Accompanied by her attorney, Jeff Rosenzweig of Little Rock, Wright went to the jail in Star City early Saturday afternoon.

Betsey Wright, chief of staff under Gov. Bill Clinton and a long-time familiar figure in state and national politics, has been charged with 51 felony counts of attempting to take contraband items into the Varner Unit of the prison system, which houses Death Row.

A federal jury leveled $250,000 in punitive damages against former state Department of Correction officer Antonio Remley on Thursday after finding that he sexually assaulted a prisoner in late 2005.

Authorities are investigating the death of a state prison inmate who was found to have amphetamine and methamphetamine in his system, a prison spokeswoman said Monday.

A Jefferson County farmer who killed a woman by running her over with a tractor shouldn't face another trial, his lawyer told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday.

A former Fennville man who donned a guard uniform Friday and walked out of an Arkansas prison with another convicted killer was seen Monday in northern Van Buren County, officials said.

Authorities are still searching for two inmates who escaped from prison on Friday.

Two women who ignored a lawsuit filed against them by the Arkansas attorney general's office have not responded to a federal judge's order that they pay nearly $700,000 in penalties for defrauding at least 139 Arkansans through a credit-repair scam.