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KATV says police charged Scott Strauss on Saturday evening with Murder in the First Degree. THV11's page, stamped 2:28 p.m. CST Saturday, says he was charged.

Thomas Farrar, KATV, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, at 10:16 a.m., updated at 10:17 a.m., with no zone on those stamps, reported a suspicious death in the area of Village Way on Nov. 7 and a Saturday-evening charge. Grace Harvey, KATV, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, at 4:49 p.m., with no zone, reported a suspicious death near Village Way and did not name a charge or a person. Cory Evans, THV11, published 2:28 p.m. CST on Nov. 7, 2026, and updated at 9:01 p.m. CST, reported the charge and said no information is available on when the death took place or the cause of death. The victim's name is not printed.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·

Photo of Scott Strauss
Photo: Maumelle Police Department

Murder in the First Degree, and Murder in the first degree, and first-degree murder, and murder, are not the same charge line. Tampering with Physical Evidence, and tampering with physical evidence, are not the same case. Saturday evening, and 2:28 p.m. CST, and Saturday morning, are not the same clock. In the area of Village Way, and near Village Way, are not the same line. A charge is not a conviction.

KATV's Sunday story is by Thomas Farrar, stamped Sun, November 8, 2026, at 10:16 a.m., and updated Sun, November 8, 2026, at 10:17 a.m. Neither stamp prints a zone. The headline says a Maumelle man is held without bond after a first-degree murder charge in a Village Way death. First-degree murder, in the headline, is not the charge line in the body. The dateline is MAUMELLE, Ark. (KATV). The opening says a Maumelle man has been charged with murder after being arrested in connection to a suspicious death on Saturday. Charged with murder, in that sentence, and Murder in the First Degree, in the next, are not the same count. Police reported a suspicious death in the area of Village Way on Nov. 7, saying they had an increased presence in that area but that there was no ongoing threat to the public. On Saturday evening, police said they charged Scott Strauss with Murder in the First Degree and Tampering with Physical Evidence in connection to the death. He is currently being held at the Pulaski County Jail without bond. The name of the victim has still not been released. KATV says this is an ongoing story. It does not print a cause of death, a relationship, a weapon, or a court date. An earlier KATV story, by Grace Harvey, is stamped Sat, November 7, 2026, at 4:49 p.m., with no zone. The dateline is LITTLE ROCK, (Ark.) KATV. LITTLE ROCK, and MAUMELLE, are not the same city, and the parenthesis around Ark. is not the Sunday dateline. It says Maumelle police are investigating a suspicious death near Village Way. Near Village Way, and in the area of Village Way, are not the same line. Officers are at the scene, and police are asking people to avoid the area while the investigation is underway. Police said there is no threat to the public. No threat, and no ongoing threat, are not the same sentence. The investigation is ongoing, and police said they will release more information as it becomes available. That Saturday story does not print Scott Strauss, a charge, a jail, or a victim's name. 4:49 p.m., with no zone, and Saturday evening, on the Sunday story, are not the same clock.

THV11, by Cory Evans, was published 2:28 p.m. CST on November 7, 2026, and updated 9:01 p.m. CST on November 7, 2026. The headline says Maumelle police charge a suspect with murder following a suspicious death. The line under it says the Maumelle Police Department has arrested a suspect following an investigation into a suspicious death Saturday morning. Saturday morning, in that line, and on Saturday, in the body, are not the same clock, and they are on the same page. The dateline is MAUMELLE, Ark, with no period after Ark and no station name in the parentheses KATV uses. The body says authorities have arrested a suspect following an investigation into a suspicious death in Maumelle on Saturday. Authorities, and the Maumelle Police Department, and police, are not the same speaker. Officials charged Scott Strauss with Murder in the first degree and tampering with physical evidence. Murder in the first degree, and Murder in the First Degree, are not the same case. Tampering with physical evidence, and Tampering with Physical Evidence, are not the same case. Strauss was taken to the Pulaski County Jail, where authorities say he is being held without bond. Taken to the jail, and currently being held, are not the same verb. Authorities say, on the bond, is THV11. It is not in KATV's bond sentence. No information is available on when the death took place or the cause of death. No information on when, and Saturday morning, are not the same clock, and they are on the same page. No information on when, and Nov. 7, and in the area of Village Way, are not the same account. THV11 does not print Village Way. It does not print a sentence saying the victim's name has not been released. It does not print a threat to the public, an increased presence, or a request to avoid the area. Police said the investigation is ongoing, and more information will be released as it becomes available. It does not print a court date.

THV11's published stamp is 2:28 p.m. CST Saturday, and its updated stamp is 9:01 p.m. CST. The page, as read, says Scott Strauss was charged. It does not say which sentence arrived at 9:01 p.m. A 2:28 p.m. published stamp, and Saturday evening, which is when KATV's Sunday story says police said they charged him, are not the same clock. 9:01 p.m. CST is an evening stamp. KATV's own Saturday story, at 4:49 p.m. with no zone, still did not name him. Saturday morning, in the line under the THV11 headline, and no information on when the death took place, in the THV11 body, are not the same clock. Nov. 7, on KATV's Sunday story, is a date. It is not a time of death, and THV11 says no information is available on when the death took place or the cause of death. Neither page prints the victim's name. KATV's Sunday story says the name has still not been released. THV11 does not print that sentence. A charge is not a conviction. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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