All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 9 2017 // In early 2016, agribusiness giant Monsanto faced a decision that would prove pivotal in what since has become a sprawling herbicide crisis, with millions of acres of crops damaged.Monsanto had readied new genetically...
Nov 8 2017 // A new Arkansas-based surplus lines insurer has been approved to do business in the state, according to the Arkansas Insurance Department.Vault E&S Insurance Company has been granted authority to sell property, casualty...
Nov 2 2017 // Arkansas opened a 45-day comment period Monday on whether highway officials should let motorists drive at higher speeds and within minutes had elicited confessions from drivers who wrote that, while they themselves speed,...
Oct 20 2017 // Arkansas highway officials have left open the possibility they’ll take a road funding proposal to lawmakers in 2019 rather than pursue a ballot measure next year.The move comes a day after Gov. Asa Hutchinson said he...
Oct 18 2017 // Arkansas’ governor says he’ll “vigorously oppose” any highway funding ballot initiative that calls for tapping into general revenue for road needs. Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters he opposes any...
Oct 17 2017 // Geologists say an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 rattled northeastern Arkansas. A report from the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of about 10 miles and was centered just southeast of Manila in Mississippi...
Oct 16 2017 // An Arkansas woman has been sentenced to three years of probation, a fine and court costs after pleading guilty to her role in a staged automobile accident in 2016 involving a U-Haul rental.The Arkansas Insurance Department...
Oct 5 2017 // An Arkansas woman has been sentenced to three years of probation, a fine and court costs after pleading guilty to having a role in a staged automobile accident in 2016 involving a U-Haul rental.The Arkansas Insurance...
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas.Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...
Sep 28 2017 // Arkansas officials are seeking immunity from being sued for releasing decade-old information about a sexual abuse investigation involving Josh Duggar and four of his sisters.Jill Duggar Dillard, Jessa Duggar Seewald,...
Sep 26 2017 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has named Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert as one of two State Legislators of the Year for 2017.Illinois state Sen. Bill Haine also was honored with the award. Rapert...
Sep 20 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved two new companies to begin conducting insurance business in his state.Kerr granted a Certificate of Authority to Security First Insurance Co. (SFIC) of Ormond Beach,...
Sep 18 2017 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has hired David Linhardt as state executive for Arkansas and Texas.As state executive, Linhardt will oversee Regions Insurance operations in the Little Rock, Fayetteville...
Aug 27 2017 // An Arkansas task force has advised the state to bar sprayings after April 15 next year of agricultural herbicides containing the chemical dicamba, which has been linked to crop damage across the U.S. farm belt, a state...
Aug 9 2017 // As the U.S. growing season entered its peak this summer, farmers began posting startling pictures on social media: fields of beans, peach orchards and vegetable gardens withering away.The photographs served as early...
Aug 4 2017 // While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they’re hopeful a rising market can offset at least some of the lost acreage.“We had 1,400 acres, and we were...
Jul 24 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to Florida-based Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company (HCPC) to offer private flood insurance in...
Jul 24 2017 // The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) last year tracked nearly 300,000 cyberattacks in the United States and those attacks resulted in more than $1.6 billion in total losses. But apparently those numbers...
Jul 21 2017 // The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department has increased the hazard rating for a train crossing after the recent deaths of a couple whose car was struck by a train. ATHD Railroad Crossing Coordinator Steve Weston...
Jul 17 2017 // A railroad company is being sued by a former employee who says his injuries from a 2014 train wreck in northwest Arkansas were caused by poor and unsafe work conditions.The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that...