Pulaski County News

Abdul-Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, born Carlos Bledsoe, 23, was in Pulaski County Circuit court Tuesday to resolve his request to change his name.

Jason Cook harvests wheat last month in Pulaski County. Wheat was a key contributor to the statea s surge in agricultural exports in 2008.

Judge Andree Layton Roaf, the first black woman to serve on the Arkansas Supreme Court, died after losing consciousness in her Little Rock office.

All that the four teenage boys wanted to do, Little Rock police say, was rob the old man and scare him a little.

Police have arrested a man in connection with two LIttle Rock firework stand robberies.

The Fort Smith Police Department has recovered several pieces of evidence from the apartment of former Waldron Mayor Troy Anderson.

Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said Roaf drove to Little Rock from her home in Pine Bluff feeling fine Wednesday morning, but felt ill as the day went on.

The man charged with shooting two Army recruiters, killing one of them, says in court Tuesday he no longer wants to change his name.

Central Arkansas Development Council will begin accepting applications for the regular and crisis Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program tomorrow July 1st.

An attorney for parents who want keep their rural schools open says closing them due to high transportation costs violates the Arkansas Constitution.

Police are looking for robbers who hit a fireworks stand in Little Rock. Pulaski County deputies say two suspects walked into the tent at 24 hour Fireworks World on Kanis Road at 3am Saturday morning but they didn't buy anything.

An attorney for parents who want keep their rural schools open says closing them due to high transportation costs violates the Arkansas Constitution.

A 44-year-old North Little Rock man has become the first person in Pulaski County to die because of the heat.

An effort to immediately remove criminal cases from a Pulaski County judge who faces ethics charges has been rejected by his fellow judges.

The Arkansas Supreme Court says it won't revive a civil suit by a Little Rock man who claims that he was molested by a former scoutmaster more than three decades ago.

A 44-year-old North Little Rock man has become the first person in Pulaski County to die because of the heat.

Verizon Wireless is announcing plans to lay off 42 more former Alltel workers in Arkansas.

It's getting harder to get out of jail on bond in Saline County. Defendants can no longer work out installment plans to pay bond premiums, and on felony cases, they are often told to pay the sheriff's office their full 10 percent cash premium instead of working out deals with bail bondsmen.

A Plumerville police officer who died after being shot during a routine traffic stop this morning was only weeks away from retirement, KARK 4 has learned.

County tax receipts decline Story date: June 17, 2009 By Michael Ford crime@couriernews.com After experiencing a slight increase in the final two months of last year, Pope County's sales tax revenue has been on a three-month decline when compared to the first three months of 2008, a dilemma county officials attribute to a struggling economy, a ...