Local AM Buzz: Petrino Phone Records Outline Contact with Alleged Mistress, 2000 Murder in Forrest City Finally Solved
By: KARK 4 Today
Updated: April 12, 2012
Petrino Phone Records Outline Contact with Alleged Mistress
The University of Arkansas released phone records that reveal frequent contact between Bobby Petrino and his alleged mistress.
KARK obtained the documents yesterday through a Freedom of Information request.
They show Petrino and Jessica Dorrell spoke on the day of the accident, also the day after.
Those documents also reveal as 70 texts a day exchanged between the pair.
2000 Murder in Forrest City Finally Solved
Questions are answered for one family after a 12-year-old cold case is solved.
A DNA match links an Indiana inmate to the murder and rape of a 19-year-old Forrest City woman back in 2000.
Authorities say Tawana Blunt was brutally murdered after she walked to an apartment complex after work.
Wednesday, investigators announced that a DNA match led to 44-year-old Anthony Lejuan Johnson, he is currently in an Indiana prison.
Johnson is waiting to be extradited from Indiana back to Arkansas.
Governor Beebe's Update from China
Governor Mike Beebe's continues his trade trip to China, the governor left last week to establish new trade relations with China and to encourage existing ones.
While there he has met with local leaders and national Chinese figures.
As far as sightseeing, the Governor was pictured in front of the Great Wall of China.
Governor Beebe is due back early next week.
The University of Arkansas released phone records that reveal frequent contact between Bobby Petrino and his alleged mistress.
KARK obtained the documents yesterday through a Freedom of Information request.
They show Petrino and Jessica Dorrell spoke on the day of the accident, also the day after.
Those documents also reveal as 70 texts a day exchanged between the pair.
2000 Murder in Forrest City Finally Solved
Questions are answered for one family after a 12-year-old cold case is solved.
A DNA match links an Indiana inmate to the murder and rape of a 19-year-old Forrest City woman back in 2000.
Authorities say Tawana Blunt was brutally murdered after she walked to an apartment complex after work.
Wednesday, investigators announced that a DNA match led to 44-year-old Anthony Lejuan Johnson, he is currently in an Indiana prison.
Johnson is waiting to be extradited from Indiana back to Arkansas.
Governor Beebe's Update from China
Governor Mike Beebe's continues his trade trip to China, the governor left last week to establish new trade relations with China and to encourage existing ones.
While there he has met with local leaders and national Chinese figures.
As far as sightseeing, the Governor was pictured in front of the Great Wall of China.
Governor Beebe is due back early next week.
