Cathi Compton News Today

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cathi Compton ordered the arrest Friday of a capital-murder suspect after prosecutors reported the 21-year-old Jacksonville man had been charged with injuring his girlfriend.

A 65-year-old Chicago truck driver who used his rig to push another vehicle along the highway has pleaded guilty as charged to aggravated assault.

A 65-year-old Chicago truck driver who used his rig to push another vehicle along the highway has pleaded guilty as charged to aggravated assault.

Leighton Delane Whitfield, gunned down in his fiancees hospital room 15 months ago, got what he deserved, the 21-year-olds killer told a Pulaski County jury Thursday before he was found guilty of the crime.

Leighton Delane Whitfield, gunned down in his fiancees hospital room 15 months ago, got what he deserved, the 21-year-olds killer told a Pulaski County jury Thursday before he was found guilty of the crime.

A North Little Rock man accused of sexually assaulting a woman while working as a Little Rock police officer pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor harassment Wednesday and was sentenced to probation.

Federal Judge Billy Roy Wilson’s a bit of a renegade. Exhibit A: He’s been known to buck sentencing guidelines to give counterfeiters more than the recommended prison term and non-violent young drug offenders less.

A 34-year-old Little Rock Crips gang member who killed a man in a nightclub then provoked a shootout with state troopers after he was released on bail has accepted a prison sentence that will keep him behind bars until he is over 65 years old.

Court records show Erik Lee Hegwood pleaded guilty to first-degree domestic battering of his youngest child when the girl was five weeks old, in exchange for the prison term imposed by Pulaski County Circuit Judge Cathi Compton.

A 28-year-old Little Rock father of three accepted a 36-year prison sentence on Wednesday for abusing his infant daughter.