U.S. District Court’s Western District of Arkansas

Billy Joe Taylor is accused of defrauding the government of more than $100 million in false billings, but he says he welcomes the indictment. read more >

The federal government wants to seize several pieces of property owned by Billy Joe Taylor, which they say were bought with the proceeds of Taylor’s alleged crimes. read more >

David Clay Fowlkes will serve as acting United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. read more >

An Arkansas physician who rehabilitated his image, regaining his medical license after going to federal prison on a child pornography charge, is now charged with a felonious relapse — this time accused of overprescribing opioids and other controlled substances. read more >

Bryan Achorn and Trent Daniels have been sworn in to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. read more >

North Little Rock attorney Nicki Nicolo is getting accustomed to hearing words rarely uttered in a federal courthouse: not guilty. read more >

Two Little Rock lawyers have asked the chief federal judge for the Western District of Arkansas to reconsider sanctions he imposed on them after a string of cases in which he was critical of their law firm’s work. read more >

A federal investigation into suspicious cash withdrawals from a financial adviser’s personal bank accounts led agents to uncover a large-scale illegal gambling operation in Benton County. read more >

Less than a month after Little Rock Attorney Stephen Engstrom was cleared of wrongdoing in a controversial class-action case, he asked to withdraw from seven other pending class actions in which his co-counsel included Texarkana attorney John Goodson. read more >

In 2013, the year he turned 26, Brandon Woodrome's Fort Smith construction company generated $10.2 million in revenue, and Woodrome had a number of projects in the pipeline. But things weren’t what they seemed. read more >

The feds recently accused a father-and-son pair who owns several Fort Smith convenience stores of running an elaborate food stamp fraud that involved 94 beneficiaries. read more >

Criminal charges in the U.S. District Court’s Western District of Arkansas climbed 7.1 percent for the 12-month period that ended March 31, 2012. read more >