Andrew Demillo

October 09, 2008 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP-The number of payday lenders operating in Arkansas has dropped by about 86 percent since the state's top attorney threatened legal action over their high-interest loans, a new study says.Arkansans Against Abusive Payday Lending, an advocacy group opposed to payday lending released a survey Thursday that says the number of payday lenders operating in the state has dropped from 237 in March to just 33.

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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October 16, 2008 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP - In a predominantly black church in a city known for its past racial strife, Bishop Robert Smith is taking sides. His targets: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and federal restrictions barring Smith's endorsement of Republican John McCain.At the end of a recent sermon, Smith told about 50 worshippers at his Word of Outreach Christian Center: "I will be voting for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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April 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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January 22, 2010 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP - The man accused of killing one soldier and wounding another outside an Arkansas military recruiting center has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming ties to al-Qaida.Abdulhakim Muhammad's attorney, Claiborne Ferguson, said Thursday night that his client sent a letter earlier this month to the judge in his case asking to change his plea to capital murder and attempted capital murder charges.

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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October 16, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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November 17, 2011 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. AP - A lawyer for a death row inmate says the Arkansas Supreme Court should overturn his murder conviction because a judge wouldn't bounce a juror caught tweeting during his 2010 trial.Erickson Dimas-Martinez's lawyer on Thursday asked the court to overturn his client's conviction for the slaying of a Centerton teenager.

By Andrew DeMillo

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October 29, 2008 | Daily Report Online

HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. AP - Shades of the region's racist past came creeping back this week just as the South could be poised to play a pivotal role in electing the nation's first black president.An alleged plot by two young white supremacists to go on a killing spree and assassinate Barack Obama, though far-fetched by most accounts, may conjure images of the Jim Crow era for some.

By ANDREW DeMILLO and WOODY BAIRD

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November 12, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By ANDREW DeMILLO

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September 24, 2007 | Daily Report Online

LITTLE ROCK AP - Fifty years after federal troops escorted him and eight other black students into an all-white high school, Terrence Roberts said he doesn't know if the United States has completely integrated itself."This country has demonstrated over time that it is not prepared to operate as an integrated society," Roberts said.

By Andrew Demillo

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June 12, 2007 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Philip Morris Cos. Inc. cannot move a lawsuit by cigarette smokers into federal court. Philip Morris moved a case filed against it in state court in Arkansas to federal court, saying it could do so because the company was pervasively regulated by the Federal Trade Commission. "A highly regulated firm cannot find a statutory basis for removal" to a federal court "in the fact of regulation alone," wrote Justice Stephen Breyer in the Court's unanimous ruling.

By Andrew DeMillo

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