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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Police beat El Dorado banker enters fraud plea

Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:06 PM

Mark Turner, a former El Dorado banker, has entered guilty pleas to two federal bank fraud counts. The government says he authorized $1.3 million in bank loans and lines of credit to his own partnerships without disclosing his interest.

        
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Police beat El Dorado banker enters fraud plea

Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 3:06 PM

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Here's an engineering blueprint for the surprise plan unveiled yesterday by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department to build a new bridge alongside the existing Broadway Bridge rather than demolish and replace the structure.

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Re: Surgeon general strikes deal on disturbance charges

Re: New attention to Tom Cotton, no press champion

Re: Hurst fined again by bar committee for late filing

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We can do better. Re my rant earlier today about the scarcity of visionary and dramatic efforts by local government to build a city that anyone could see at a glance is a great city.

Tomorrow will be kind of crazy as Riverfest takes hold of my office's corner of downtown.

A plea bargain has ended the disturbance case against Surgeon General Joe Thompson, arrested by Little Rock police at his Hillcrest home March 31.

People magazine reports that Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar are expecting their 20th child this spring.

Buddhists fit easily into a traditional Ozark lifestyle.

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack is a former National Guard colonel and he apparently acted like a rank-pulling jerk at a rare town hall meeting Wednesday night, according to this report from Blue Arkansas.

Social media and e-mails are buzzing with an effort to build a protest of a North Little City Council ordinance to be considered tonight that would allow shooting Canada geese in Burns Park, where their excrement has become a nuisance on the golf course and soccer fields.

The Times' coverage of the case since 1994.