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07/19/11 "One thing we've got to keep in mind," quipped West Memphis Utilities Manager John Rimmer, "all the stuff people are saying about Comcast now, they'll be saying about us."
07/12/11 Mara Leveritt reports (pay wall) that the Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct won't pursue her complaint that Attorney General Dustin McDaniel's office had violated ethics codes by continuing to fight to uphold West Memphis Three convictions marred by evidence of juror misconduct and other violations of the defendants' constitutional rights. New evidentiary hearings have been ordered ...
07/11/11 The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department says one lane of the Interstate 40 bridge that connects West Memphis with Memphis, Tenn., will be closed for inspection.
07/06/11 Parking Fines Range From $250 To $500 Dollars In West Memphis Tough Enforcement Against Handicapped Parking Violators In West Memphis, Arkansas
07/05/11 Arkansas highway officials will close a lane of Interstate 40 between West Memphis and Memphis on Wednesday and Thursday while crews inspect a bridge.
07/02/11 The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department will perform a routine bridge inspection of the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River between West Memphis and Memphis, Tenn., next week.
06/24/11 The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission has approved a request to spend up to $405,000 to remove containers of corrosive and flammable materials from an abandoned facility in West Memphis.
06/21/11 A tragic event occurred today on Interstate 55 South in West Memphis, Arkansas. TDOT HELP Truck driver Robert Nowicki was fatally injured in an accident as he stopped to assist a motorist.
06/21/11 Robert Nowicki was fatally injured in an accident on Monday while he was assisting a motorist on Interstate 55 south in West Memphis, Arkansas.
06/20/11 A Tennessee Department of Transportation HELP truck driver was killed while stopping to help a motorist in West Memphis, Arkansas.
06/20/11 (West Memphis, AR 6/20/2011) Interstate 55 near West Memphis, AR, is back open after a deadly crash Monday afternoon. The crash happened around 1:30 p.m. on I-55 south, near the Riverport Road exit, just before the bridge that crosses into Memphis, killing two people.
06/12/11 Addison (Texas) Trinity Christian Academy beat West Memphis 24-14 to win the Harding University 7-on-7 passing camp Saturday afternoon at First Security Stadium.
05/30/11 The centers will open Tuesday in Crittenden County at West Memphis High School, in Monroe County at the Clarendon Housing Authority and in White County at the Arkansas State University campus in Searcy.
05/20/11 Friday night at 9:30, the West Memphis Police Department will honor the fallen officers with a "sea of blue" processional as police cruisers travel through West Memphis with blue lights flashing.
05/19/11 The state's largest electric utility said Thursday that it was able to reroute power to get electricity back to homes and businesses. But 200 linemen and other workers are still working in harsh terrain to reconstruct a major line between Keo and West Memphis.
05/18/11 Nearly a year to the date of the fatal attack on West Memphis Officers Bill Evans and Brandon Paudert, a design for a memorial in their honor has been chosen.
05/17/11 An advocacy group seeking to overturn the convictions of the West Memphis Three says the attorney general's office has said it won't fight introduction of evidence about juror misconduct in one of the trials, though it is not agreeing that this is ground for a new trial. News release follows from Lonnie Soury for Arkansas Take Action: [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
05/17/11 The office of the Arkansas Attorney General submitted a brief to the Craighead County Court of Judge David Laser agreeing to the admission of juror misconduct evidence in evidentiary hearings in the West Memphis 3 case.
05/14/11 CBS will air a report Sunday about the sovereign citizens movement, including a feature on the May 20, 2010, shooting deaths of two West Memphis police officers.
05/12/11 We reported here last week that Arkansas Times senior editor Mara Leveritt had filed a professional conduct complaint against Attorney General Dustin McDaniel for refusing to be moved by evidence of juror misconduct in the West Memphis Threee case and continuing to fight to kill a defendant unjustly convicted. That complaint got coverage today in the [...]
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