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Baker bribery case update: More legislative influence-peddling recounted by former UCA president Tom Courtway Debra Hale-Shelton will be writing a fuller account later of events today in the bribery trial of former Republican Party chair and senator Gilbert Baker, but she provided a summary of afternoon events that adds more to the morning account of special interest influence at the Arkansas legislature. TOM COURTWAY: Fired Gilbert Baker as a lobbyist despite support from a current and former senator. Advertisement Tom Courtway, former president of the University of Central Arkansas, in a ...

ADVERTISEMENT Illness of prosecutor rattles bribery trial But judge reports negative virus test; creator of 8 PACs testifies on Baker’s role by Dale Ellis | Today at 7:07 a.m. Former state Sen. Gilbert Baker is shown speaking to reporters in this file photo. The bribery trial of former state Sen. Gilbert Baker was nearly upended Thursday for a second time related to a covid-19 scare after Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Harris was reported to have taken ill with a fever and other symptoms after leaving court Wednesday. Chief U.S. District Judge D. Price Marshall Jr. announced that Assistant...

Centennial of ex-astronaut, US Senator John Glenn marked Associated Press AP1961 FILE - In this Jan. 11, 1961 file photo, then Marine Lt. Col. John Glenn reaches for controls inside a Mercury capsule procedures trainer as he shows how the first U.S. astronaut will ride through space during a demonstration at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research Center in Langley Field, Va. Glenn's birthplace and childhood hometown in Ohio are celebrating what would have been the history-making astronaut and U.S. senator's 100th birthday with a three-day festival from July 16 through July...

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Domestic assault disrupts traffic on Ouray Ave. Ouray Avenue was closed between 14th and 15th street for three hours Saturday as police responded to a reported domestic violence incident. Around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Grand Junction Police Officers responded to a report of a woman who said she had been attacked by a man. The man was said to be armed with a machete, according to a release from the Grand Junction Police Department. After helping the victim, who did not suffer serious injuries, leave the home through a first-floor window, police tried to contact the man, GJPD said. After several...