All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 13 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 Arkansas.In a press...
Jul 12 2017 // FBI officials said the state’s attacks are a small percentage of the nearly 300,000 cyberattacks tracked nationwide in 2016. But agency officials said Arkansas is seeing more complex attacks, including cyberattacks...
Jul 7 2017 // Officials say three more Arkansas counties have been added to the list of counties that are eligible for disaster unemployment assistance because of severe weather earlier this year. The Arkansas Department of Workforce...
Jul 7 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted Certificates of Authority to three out-of-state insurance companies to do business in Arkansas.The Arkansas Insurance Department reported that COPIC Insurance Company...
Jul 5 2017 // No one was injured when a short-lived tornado swept through Jonesboro, damaging an apartment complex and downing trees and power lines in the northeast Arkansas city.The National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee, said...
Jun 30 2017 // A Jonesboro, Ark., woman has been sentenced to five years’ probation, court costs and restitution after pleading guilty to her role in a staged automobile accident in 2014 involving a U-Haul rental.Jennifer Haggins,...
Jun 28 2017 // U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are expected to begin repairing nine sections of a levee along the Black River in northeast Arkansas that was damaged by floods last month.Emergency workers are making plans to cover...
Jun 27 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas (IIAAR) selected Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Companies to receive the group’s Company of the Year award. State Auto was presented with the award at the...
Jun 22 2017 // Tyson Foods has installed video cameras in key areas of its poultry operations and will test new ways to slaughter birds — not in response to previous “gotcha” moments but under a corporate philosophy that...
Jun 20 2017 // Earthquakes in northern Arkansas are being linked to the weight of extra water at a flood-swollen reservoir.Earthquake geologist David Johnston works with the Arkansas Geological Survey. He says the added weight of the...
Jun 20 2017 // A northwest Arkansas house once occupied by former President Bill Clinton that was damaged by fire has been deemed a total loss.The home now owned by Stephanie and Robert Dzur and occupied by Stephanie Dzur’s father...
Jun 19 2017 // The Arkansas Insurance Department has approved the acquisition of two domestic affiliated companies, Allied World Surplus Lines Insurance (AWSLIC) and Vantapro Specialty Insurance Co., by Swiss and Canadian...
Jun 19 2017 // An Arkansas man who pretended to be an insurance broker and collected more than $1 million selling fake policies in three states has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, the Arkansas Insurance Department...
Jun 16 2017 // A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame for damaging their crops. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Jonesboro, Arkansas, against...
Jun 15 2017 // G4S Youth Services, a former manager of programs and services at a juvenile correction and detention facility in Alexander, Ark., violated federal law by paying a female facility investigator less than it paid the male...
Jun 15 2017 // A 5-year-old boy with developmental disabilities was found dead inside a daycare van where police said he’d been left all day in the sweltering heat, and an Arkansas agency has launched an investigation into why a...
Jun 13 2017 // Tyson Foods is recalling nearly 2.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat breaded chicken due to an unlabeled allergen.The company, based in Springdale, Arkansas, says the recall was made after it was notified June 6 by a...
Jun 13 2017 // An Arkansas duo behind two fake crashes and false insurance claims have each received three-year prison sentences, the Arkansas Insurance Department announced.Jeremy Fisher, 36, and Teneshia White, 34, both of Pine Bluff,...
Jun 9 2017 // Reality TV personality Josh Duggar faced “unwarranted public scrutiny” after a magazine disclosed that sisters told police they had been molested by him years earlier, lawyers for Duggar said in a complaint in...
Jun 5 2017 // Authorities in a small Arkansas town say local police and firefighters are being targeted by suspicious fires and vandalism.No suspects have been arrested for the fires and property damage in Cotton Plant that began in...