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The BridgeWay mental-health hospital, admitting it had wronged a 14-year-old patient who was raped by one of its workers, was ordered Thursday to pay her $2.5 million by a Pulaski County jury following a three-day trial before Circuit Judge Herb Wright.

Should attorneys have the right to bring a gun into an Arkansas courthouse? That is the question presently before the Arkansas Supreme Court in a lawsuit filed by Conway attorney Chris Corbitt.

A Little Rock attorney denied entry three years ago into the Pulaski County District Courthouse in Little Rock while carrying a weapon took his case to the state Supreme Court Thursday seeking the right for him and other attorneys to legally carry firearms into courthouses around the state as "officers of the court."

A lawsuit filed against Pulaski Academy by a physics teacher who was fired for refusing to wear a mask during the covid-19 pandemic has been dismissed by a Pulaski County circuit judge who said the decision was not punitive but rather a measure to safeguard the health of students and co-workers at the school.

Three days after Arkansas medical-marijuana regulators, acting on court orders, canceled a Fort Smith growers cultivation license, a higher court blocked that move Thursday, leaving ownership of the permit with its original receiver, at least for the time being.

On Monday, a medical marijuana cultivator's license to operate was revoked by Doralee Chandler, head regulator of the state's Medical Marijuana Commission (MMC). This news comes less than a month after a judge ruled the state erred when it granted the license to River Valley Relief (RVR) two years ago.

Following a court ruling earlier this month, Medical Marijuana Commission Director Doralee Changer on Monday revoked the license of Fort Smith-based River Valley Relief.

The director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration issued an order Monday revoking the license for medical marijuana cultivator River Valley Relief LLC.

The director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration issued an order Monday revoking the license for medical marijuana cultivator River Valley Relief LLC.

The owner of a medical marijuana grow operation that lost one of eight cultivation licenses allowed by the state has appealed to the Arkansas Supreme Court in a bid to get a new trial to decide the matter.