All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2018 // Business remains strong in nine Midwest and Plains states, but a new monthly survey suggests growth is slowing as concerns about trade and tariffs increase.The region’s overall economic index decreased to 61.8 in...
Jun 7 2018 // Arkansas officials have denied a request by some farmers to lift the state’s ban on in-crop dicamba use.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the state Plant Board rejected the farmers’ request on Tuesday....
May 31 2018 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “a-” of Kinsale Insurance...
May 7 2018 // Arkansas has suspended the insurance licenses of one agency owner and arrested another agency owner on charges of insurance fraud.The Arkansas Insurance Department suspended the licenses of Berry Bishop and Alliance...
May 4 2018 // Federal labor officials say an Arkansas company has paid nearly $709,000 to settle overtime and minimum wage claims stemming from the cleanup of Louisiana floods in 2016. The U.S. Department of Labor said that Wallace,...
May 3 2018 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has halted a fourth judge’s ruling exempting some farmers from an herbicide ban that took effect last week. Justices has stayed a Clay County judge’s order prohibiting the state Plant...
May 1 2018 // This year’s weather on the Southern Plains has an odd twist: Oklahoma has yet to record its first tornado, the deepest into the year it’s gone without one since 1962.Although a drought has dried up moisture...
Apr 30 2018 // Arkansas has suspended the insurance licenses of an agency and its owner amid allegations of insurance fraud totaling more than $1 million.The Arkansas Insurance Department reported that Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr...
Apr 24 2018 // Officials at a small municipal airport in central Arkansas are battling an unlikely foe — coyotes that keep chewing on part of the taxiway.The damage at the North Little Rock Municipal Airport is expected to cost $6,000...
Apr 20 2018 // Authorities in rural Arkansas are investigating the theft of more than $50,000 worth of equipment from a farm owned by former NBA star Scottie Pippen. Investigator Mark Griever of the Ashley County Sheriff’s Office...
Apr 18 2018 // Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed 11 tornadoes so far from the severe storms that hit Arkansas on Friday and Saturday. The NWS previously said it had confirmed nine tornadoes. The two strongest...
Apr 17 2018 // The Arkansas Insurance Department’s Consumer Services Division (CSD) recovered $1,126,107 for Arkansas insurance customers during the first quarter of 2018, the agency announced.Recoveries are dollar amounts...
Apr 17 2018 // Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed nine tornadoes so far from the severe storms that hit Arkansas on Friday and Saturday.The two strongest tornadoes were both rated EF2. One hit Mountainburg in...
Apr 16 2018 // A tornado ripped through a tiny town in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas on Friday, injuring at least four people.The twister struck Mountainburg, Arkansas, around 4 p.m. Friday as a line of severe...
Apr 13 2018 // An Arkansas insurance firm owner has surrendered to authorities on warrants in Pulaski County for felony insurance fraud, theft and forgery, the Arkansas Insurance Department announced.Joshua Eric Casada, owner of the...
Apr 10 2018 // An Arkansas woman has been arrested on multiple felony charges related to arson and insurance fraud, the state department of insurance reported.The Arkansas Insurance Department said Kittie Louise Payton, 55, of Little...
Apr 6 2018 // BB&T Insurance Holdings, which is owned by financial services firm BB&T Corp., has agreed to acquire another bank-owned insurance broker, Regions Insurance Group, from Regions Financial Corp.No terms were...
Apr 3 2018 // An Arkansas judge has ruled that six farmers in the state this summer can spray a weed killer made by Monsanto Co. and BASF SE that was blamed for hurting millions of acres of U.S. crops last year.The decision is the...
Apr 2 2018 // Arkansas’ attorney general has joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their...
Mar 27 2018 // Arkansas businesses will see a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs beginning in July. Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr today has approved a decrease in workers’ compensation cost of 15.4...