Miller County News

A 19-year-old Texarkana man has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in Miller County.

Miller County authorities investigating a deadly nightclub shooting near Texarkana say witnesses apparently are scared to come forward.

Prosecutors say 57-year-old Harry Johnson was released for time served after entering the plea Wednesday in Miller County District Court.

Registered sex offenders in Miller County have to report to the Bi-State Justice Building in Texarkana for a mandatory counseling session on Halloween night.

A homeless man in Texarkana has rejected a plea agreement to a bestiality charge and says he's not guilty.

A former Miller County, Arkansas jailer arrested on alleged misconduct was found dead Tuesday morning.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals ruled today that a Miller County Circuit judge did not err when he allowed the prosecutor in a robbery trial to strike a potential juror who was black, despite the prosecutor's admission that race was a factor in his decision.

A former southwest Arkansas city official has been arrested on a charge related to payroll advances.

Texarkana and Miller County have been awarded a grant totaling $68,124 from the Edward Bryne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program through the U.S. Department of Justice.

The last of five reported victims of evangelist Tony Alamo took the stand Friday, telling jurors that she was married to him at age 11 and had sex with him on a bus during a trip from Arkansas to California.

Jury selection is getting underway in Texarkana today for the federal trial of former evangelist Tony Alamo.

Little Rock - Federal prosecutors are refusing to name two confidential informants who provided information to the FBI about jailed evangelist Tony Alamo. Prosecutors refused the request in a filing Tuesday to U.S. District Judge Harry F. Barnes. Prosecutors say Alamo's lawyers failed to offer a convincing reason to name the informants, who offered information that led to a raid on his southwest Arkansas compound. Prosecutors also hint that those informants may be underage girls sexually or physically abused by the 74-year-old evangelist.

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.