Miller County News

A search warrant for Tony Alamo Christian Ministries property based on years-old information wasn't "fatally stale" because pedophiles typically keep incriminating photos of their victims for a long time, according to a document filed Thursday by federal prosecutors.

Several witnesses had testified and several more were ready to take the stand when Leslie “Buster” White’s attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Jackson announced they’d come to an agreement concerning a motion to revoke White’s probation.

An October trial date has been set for a man charged with abuse of a corpse for leaving his dead wife's body in an apartment bathtub.

Tony Alamo’s defense team filed motions Tuesday asking the court to keep evidence collected during September’s raid on ministry properties out of his criminal trial next month. The defense also wants the names of informants who allegedly provided officials with incriminating information about the controversial evangelist.

Tony Alamo’s defense team filed motions Tuesday asking the court to keep evidence collected during September’s raid on ministry properties out of his criminal trial next month. The defense also wants the names of informants who allegedly provided officials with incriminating information about the controversial evangelist.

In a filing in U.S. District Court, prosecutors said they had no records fitting that description and claimed providing such materials to Alamo's lawyers would violate confidentiality rules. The seven-page filing also revealed that the prosecutors' case against Alamo likely will rely heavily on witness testimony, as federal agents claim to have done no forensic testing nor tapped the evangelist's telephone lines before his Sept. 25 arrest.

A former Miller County jailer is suing former county Sheriff Linda Rambo, her chief deputy, another deputy and the county over the ex-jailer's arrest last year.

Sexual harassment charges against a former Miller County sheriff's deputy have been dismissed because of a violation of his right to a speedy trial.

A 7-year-old boy who fell into an abandoned water well in southwest Arkansas was rescued by a cowboy from a nearby ranch who used a lariat to lift the boy to safety.

The Legislature mandated the change with a law passed in 2007 after a string of violent episodes at courthouses across the country.

A former Miller County, Arkansas jail guard accused of sneaking marijuana in to a jail for inmates has pleaded guilty to two felony charges.

A body found near Interstate 549 in Miller County, Ark., earlier this year is that of a missing Texarkana man, authorities said.

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Staff photo by Jim Williamson Gary Barnton, left, and Maureen Lustberg of Shreveport, La., visit the Arkansas tourist information center on Interstate 30 in Miller County, Ark., Monday morning and pose for a photo for the driving tours in Arkansas available at the center.

The Miller County, Ark., judge who presided in child custody hearings involving parents within jailed evangelist Tony Alamo's ministry died Sunday.

Three people were trapped inside a car near Texarkana Saturday when a power line fell on the vehicle during a thunderstorm.

Thomas Richards was typing on his computer in the wee hours of the morning one day in December when he heard cars pulling up outside his Fort Lee, N.J., home.

Tuesday April 28, 2009, 1:35 PM DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent

Saying he now finds his "political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans," Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, now a Republican, has announced that he will run for re-election as a Democrat in 2010 that will push Democrats within one seat of a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.

"Since my election in 1980, as part of the Reagan Big Tent, the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans."

Noting that judges have already briefed reporters on developments in the child-welfare cases involving members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, an attorney for the ministry on Thursday called for records and proceedings in the ministry's lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Human Services to be kept open to the public.

Generally, centerlines of rivers and surveys mark boundary lines. Historically, Arkansas' southern border of Louisiana, eastern border of the Mississippi River and northern border of Missouri were no-brainers, except for the goofy Missouri bootheel that clawed its way out of extreme northeastern Arkansas and into Missouri because influential ...