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After dropping a lawsuit filed by his predecessor that gave the tiny town of Allport more time to comply with Arkansas' municipal accounting laws, state Attorney General Tim Griffin on Tuesday filed a suit seeking to revoke the town's charter.
At the request of Attorney General Tim Griffin, a Pulaski County circuit judge has dismissed a complaint filed in June of 2021 by then-Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in which she asked the judge to give Allport more time to comply with municipal accounting laws and to revoke Allport's charter if the town fails to do so.
A fugitive white supremacist who was the subject of a two-day police manhunt around Hensley was convicted of capital murder and aggravated robbery Friday by a Pulaski County jury that rejected defense claims the circumstantial evidence -- including the victim's blood on his pants -- was too sketchy to convict him.
A 28-year-old Little Rock man serving a federal life sentence for conspiring to sex traffic a six-year-old girl has accepted a 30-year state prison sentence for repeatedly molesting the child, infecting her with sexually transmitted diseases and exposing her to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
A sex offender who shot a Church's Chicken employee while robbing the Little Rock restaurant has accepted a 25-year prison sentence for the November 2019 holdup and unrelated offenses.