Andrew Demillo

March 07, 2008 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK AP - A federal jury on Thursday ordered Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Upjohn Co. to pay more than $27 million to a Little Rock woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy.The jury on Thursday ruled that Donna Scroggin, who sued the companies in 2004, should receive $19.3 million from Wyeth and $7.

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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April 08, 2008 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK AP - Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday that most of the payday lending companies operating in Arkansas have said they will close or stop issuing high-interest loans in response to his threat last month to sue them if they continued to do business in the state.McDaniel said his office received word from 52 companies that they will comply with the cease-and-desist letter he sent them.

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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February 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK AP - A judge Friday released the Little Rock School District from a half-century of federal intervention, saying the predominantly black district - scene of the tumultuous 1957 desegregation of Central High School - should be responsible simply to students and taxpayers.U.S. District Judge William R.

By Andrew Demillo

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October 13, 2008 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP - Defining a state-run lottery may be as easy as defining hard-core pornography, a member of Arkansas' highest court suggested Monday as justices considered whether to kick a proposed lottery off the November ballot.Justices weighed the claims of the Arkansas Family Council, which says the lottery proposal should better define the games and could allow for the introduction of casinos in the state.

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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September 13, 2012 | Daily Report Online

The mother of slain Little Rock TV anchor Anne Pressly should be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit against a hospital and three workers who illegally looked at her dead daughter's medical files despite a judge's ruling that privacy claims can't be pursued after someone's death, an attorney told the Arkansas Supreme Court Thursday.

By Andrew DeMillo

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January 30, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Arkansas senators advanced a proposal Wednesday to ban most abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected, a move that would ban the procedure as early as six weeks, despite a warning from opponents that it would open the state up to legal challenges.

By Andrew DeMillo

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May 24, 2012 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas judge on Thursday ordered a new trial to decide who can claim a $1 million scratch-off lottery ticket prize, a little more than three weeks after he ruled that a woman who said she bought the ticket but mistakenly discarded it was entitled to the money.

By Andrew DeMillo

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June 02, 2009 | Daily Report Online

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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March 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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October 04, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Andrew Demillo

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