LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April 10 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Gilberto Pedraza Contreras will spend the next 135 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Jonathan D. Ross, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced the sentence, which was handed down today by United States District Judge Lee P. Rudofsky.   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: The Justice Department announced today that it filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas against West Memphis School District (WMSD) for denying an employee's request for a reasonable accommodation of temporary telework, in violation of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA requires that employers provide reasonable accommodatio  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to the Searcy County Government, Arkansas, to support manufacturing business growth. This grant will renovate a building in Marshall, Arkansas to support the establishment of a frozen foods manufacturin  more