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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:51:38 PM EST
This photo released Saturday, May 19, 2013, by Pulaski County Sheriff's Department, shows Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner. She has been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail. Shoffner, a Democrat serving her second term in office, has faced question over the past year about the way her office has handled state investments. (AP Photo/Pulaski County Sheriff's Department)
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Posted: 5/20/2013 1:51:38 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2012, file photo Arkansas State Treasurer Martha Shoffner at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. An affidavit filed Monday, May 20, 2013, in federal court alleges that Shoffner, arrested on an extortion charge, repeatedly took cash payments of at least $36,000, sometimes rolled up and hidden inside a pie box, from a broker who invested state money. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 8:22:09 PM EST
A customer shops along the fruits department in a Sam's Club store, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, in Bentonville, Arkansas June 2, 2011. REUTERS/Sarah Conard
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Posted: 5/15/2013 1:21:56 PM EST
A customer shops along the fruits department in a Sam's Club store, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, in Bentonville, Arkansas June 2, 2011. REUTERS/Sarah Conard
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Posted: 5/15/2013 1:21:56 PM EST
A customer shops along the fruits department in a Sam's Club store, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, in Bentonville, Arkansas June 2, 2011. REUTERS/Sarah Conard
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Posted: 5/15/2013 8:33:59 AM EST
A customer shops along the fruits department in a Sam's Club store, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, in Bentonville, Arkansas June 2, 2011. REUTERS/Sarah Conard
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Posted: 5/15/2013 8:33:59 AM EST
A customer shops along the fruits department in a Sam's Club store, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, in Bentonville, Arkansas June 2, 2011. REUTERS/Sarah Conard
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:37:41 PM EST
In this May 1, 2013, photo Arkansas Department of Correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson stands outside the Tucker Unit in Tucker, Ark. Since Lester Stiggers fled prison 43 years ago, the convicted killer has spent most of his life a free man in the Detroit area, thanks to a progressive governor who refused to send him back to Arkansas’ then-infamous penitentiary system. (AP Photo/Jeannie Nuss)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:12:42 PM EST
In an April 26, 2013 photo, Lester Stiggers, right, sits with his companion Delphine Hopkins during an interview by the Associated Press in Warren, Mich. Stiggers is a wanted man _ except in Michigan. Since he fled prison in 1970, the convicted killer has spent most of his life a free man in the Detroit area, thanks to a progressive governor who refused to send him back to Arkansas. Much like the U.S. gives foreign refugees asylum from threats in their homeland, that governor, William Milliken, gave Stiggers asylum from Arkansas. The state of Arkansas has renewed its efforts to bring him back to face justice. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:12:42 PM EST
In an photo April 26, 2013 photo, Lester Stiggers sits with his companion Delphine Hopkins during an interview by the Associated Press in Warren, Mich. Stiggers is a wanted man _ except in Michigan. Since he fled prison in 1970, the convicted killer has spent most of his life a free man in the Detroit area, thanks to a progressive governor who refused to send him back to Arkansas. Much like the U.S. gives foreign refugees asylum from threats in their homeland, that governor, William Milliken, gave Stiggers asylum from Arkansas. The state of Arkansas has renewed its efforts to bring him back to face justice. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:12:42 PM EST
In an photo April 26, 2013 photo, Lester Stiggers is interviewed by the Associated Press in Warren, Mich. Stiggers is a wanted man _ except in Michigan. Since he fled prison in 1970, the convicted killer has spent most of his life a free man in the Detroit area, thanks to a progressive governor who refused to send him back to Arkansas. Much like the U.S. gives foreign refugees asylum from threats in their homeland, that governor, William Milliken, gave Stiggers asylum from Arkansas. The state of Arkansas has renewed its efforts to bring him back to face justice. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:12:42 PM EST
In an photo April 26, 2013 photo, Lester Stiggers holds his companion's granddaughter during an interview by the Associated Press in Warren, Mich.. Stiggers is a wanted man _ except in Michigan. Since he fled prison in 1970, the convicted killer has spent most of his life a free man in the Detroit area, thanks to a progressive governor who refused to send him back to Arkansas. Much like the U.S. gives foreign refugees asylum from threats in their homeland, that governor, William Milliken, gave Stiggers asylum from Arkansas. The state of Arkansas has renewed its efforts to bring him back to face justice. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:12:42 PM EST
In a April 26, 2013 photo, Lester Stiggers is interviewed in Warren, Mich., by the Associated Press. Stiggers is a wanted man _ except in Michigan. Since he fled prison in 1970, the convicted killer has spent most of his life a free man in the Detroit area, thanks to a progressive governor who refused to send him back to Arkansas. Much like the U.S. gives foreign refugees asylum from threats in their homeland, that governor, William Milliken, gave Stiggers asylum from Arkansas. The state of Arkansas has renewed its efforts to bring him back to face justice. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
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Posted: 4/27/2013 1:53:22 PM EST
FILE - In this July 4, 2011 file photo, fireworks launched from ONEOK Freedom Fest line the Tulsa skyline and are reflected in the Arkansas River In Tulsa, Okla. Buoyed by its success hosting a Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament this winter, the city of Tulsa is aiming for something faster, higher, stronger: the 2024 Summer Olympics. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Jeff Lautenberger)
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Posted: 4/25/2013 12:43:18 PM EST
This photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Corrections shows Kuntrell Jackson who was sentenced to life in prison when he was 14 after the shooting death of a store clerk during an attempted robbery in 1999. The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday, April 25, 2013, ordered a new sentencing hearing for Jackson, whose case was one of two that led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year throwing out mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles. (AP Photo/Arkansas Department of Corrections)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 6:03:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2012 file photo, Arkansas quarterback Tyler Wilson (8) throws as South Carolina's D.J. Swearinger (36) pressures during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Columbia, S.C. When the NFL Draft rolls around, the second-guessing officially begins as some of college football's highest-profile quarterbacks find out if an extra year in school cost them millions of dollars. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, File)
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Posted: 4/22/2013 3:28:28 AM EST
In this April 16, 2013 photo, Arkansas House Majority Leader Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, signals his intention to speak against a Medicaid funding bill in the House chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, April 16, 2013. The funding provision passed. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 6:16:56 PM EST
Spilt oil from Exxon pipeline runs between homes in North Woods Subdivision in Mayflower, Arkansas in this April 1, 2013 photo released to Reuters on April 11, 2013. REUTERS/EPA/Handout
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Posted: 4/19/2013 6:13:23 PM EST
FILE - In this July 30, 1997 file photo, a television camera mounted on the ceiling of a witness room is pointed toward the Arkansas death chamber at Cummins Prison in Varner, Ark. After surrendering its supply of a lethal injection drug to federal agents in 2011, Arkansas turned to a somewhat surprising place to look for another drug: a list prepared by lawyers for several death row inmates. The state Department of Correction has told The Associated Press that it decided to use phenobarbital after attorneys for several death row inmates mentioned in a lawsuit that it might be an available drug that’s regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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Posted: 4/17/2013 2:33:06 PM EST
Spilt oil from Exxon pipeline runs between homes in North Woods Subdivision in Mayflower, Arkansas in this April 1, 2013 photo released to Reuters on April 11, 2013. REUTERS/EPA/Handout
