Arkansas Times

The plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Arkansas Department of Transportation’s $1 billion project to widen seven miles of Interstate 30 have dropped their request for a preliminary injunction at this stage of the lawsuit.https://buff.ly/2jGlOVk 

Roderick Talley, who has been involved in lawsuits with the Little Rock Police Department about harmful practices during drug raids, was arrested in Hope for blocking a roadway while filming a traffic stop.https://buff.ly/2l5d4s0 

A handful of U of A System professors filed a class-action lawsuit challenging revisions to the university system's tenure policy, which faculty critics believe will curb free speech. Now, two law professors have written an essay critiquing the policy.https://buff.ly/2l753Tx 

Loathsome Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta will resign following controversy over his handling of financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes case involving minors, President Trump has announced.https://buff.ly/2XLuyqY 

Governor Hutchinson yesterday appointed Chad Pekron of Bryant to the State Board of Education.https://buff.ly/2G7Vj36 

Jeremy Hutchinson, the ex-senator who recently pleaded guilty to bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud charges in federal court, is surrendering his law license. #arpxhttps://buff.ly/2GaXAKG 

Judge Griffen, who in June petitioned the state Supreme Court to restore his ability to hear cases involving the death penalty, has filed a motion asking all of the justices to disqualify themselves so that Gov. Hutchinson can appoint special justices.https://buff.ly/32iFZdo 

A fed. jury in LR yesterday convicted Rodrigo Gomez, 44, formerly of Jacksonville, of attempted manslaughter in connection with a brawl on New Year’s Eve 2016 at a restaurant at Misawa Air Base in Japan, where Gomez worked and where his wife was stationed.https://buff.ly/2YPirKU 

Ben Crump, the Tallahassee, Fla.-based civil rights attorney who is representing several LR residents who say they were victims of an unethical, dangerous "no-knock" warrant policy by the LRPD, is the subject of a long profile in New York magazine.https://buff.ly/2JBX4qh 

With heat index values expected to reach 105 degrees for much of the state today, the city of Little Rock has opened up four community centers from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. for folks who need to escape the heat.https://buff.ly/2XDxYB5 

The state Alcohol Beverage Control Division, which regulates medical marijuana in Arkansas, has approved Fiddler's Green, a Mountain View dispensary, to open.https://buff.ly/2LLgUBT 

Members of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a $156 million energy conservation project for UAMS. The board also approved excess salary requests for over 100 people in the athletic department at UA Fayetteville.https://buff.ly/2S6VVdS 

Last month, the Arkansas Justice Collective, led by immigration attorney Stephen Coger, released a report outlining the increased prosecutions of marijuana in Fayetteville and the racial disparities in the policing, especially by the local drug task force.https://buff.ly/30sif4I