While the candidate filing deadline for municipal races in Jonesboro is not until early August, Jeremy Terrell has already announced his intention to run for mayor. He even has a campaign website up ...

Bexar County sheriff's deputies on Wednesday started rounding up and arresting people accused of writing hot checks. Daniel H. Gonzalez, a supervisor for the check section with the district attorney's ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT) - More than 700 people who have written hot checks in Craighead County will get one day to pay up or risk arrest. State Prosecuting Attorney Keith L. Chrestman announced Tuesday ...

Customers of Dennis Bailey's check-cashing businesses in Fordyce have been hauled into hot-check court, forced to pay court fees they shouldn't have had to pay, or spent time in jail for crimes they ...

A. This is a very common question with merchants. If you receive a hot check, you must send the writer of the check a certified, return receipt requested letter making demand for the value of the ...

Hot checks have been a hot topic since Wal-Mart announced it would no longer rely upon district attorneys to chase after its bogus check writers. The move by the retail giant is expected to cost ...

When a merchant brings an insufficient-fund check to the district attorney’s office for collection, the DA charges a sliding-scale fee to the check writer. The fees range from $10 for a check of $10 ...

A petition filed Wednesday in Pulaski Circuit Court claims Pulaski County justice of the peace candidate Barry Jefferson is ineligible to serve because of a previous hot check conviction -- the same ...

A San Antonio man convicted of writing close to $1 million in hot checks as part of a youth football scheme has been convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison, the District Attorney’s Office said ...

A man sentenced to five years in prison for violating the state's hot check law had his conviction reversed Wednesday after the Arkansas Court of Appeals determined the lower court erred in denying ...

A 16-year-old misdemeanor hot-check conviction means Barry Jefferson can't hold elected office, a Pulaski County circuit judge ruled Friday, invalidating the votes for Jefferson's campaign for the ...