All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2017 // The House is racing to find enough votes for its health-care bill this week, but even if it passes, prospects in the Senate have only darkened.More than enough Senate Republicans oppose the House bill to kill it —...
Mar 16 2017 // The city of Hot Springs, Ark., has settled a $300,000 federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a former employee of the city’s solid waste department.The Sentinel-Record reports the settlement was reached on March 13....
Mar 13 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved a decrease in workers’ compensation cost of 8.4 percent in overall loss in the voluntary market and a 10.6 percent rate decrease in overall average assigned...
Mar 2 2017 // A.M. Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “a-” from “bbb+” of Farm Bureau Mutual...
Mar 2 2017 // A spring-like storm system that killed at least three people as it spawned tornadoes and damaged dozens of homes in the central U.S. rumbled eastward on March 1, putting about 95 million people in its path, forecasters...
Mar 1 2017 // The Arkansas House has approved a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ask voters to limit some attorney’s fees and punitive damages in lawsuits. The House voted 65-29 for the joint resolution and sent...
Feb 22 2017 // Oklahomans won’t vote until next year on whether to legalize medical marijuana, but a state lawmaker has already introduced legislation that would set the framework if sales of the drug are approved.State Rep. Eric...
Feb 16 2017 // An Arkansas Senate committee has advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would ask voters to limit some attorneys’ fees and punitive damages in court cases. The Senate State Agencies and Governmental...
Feb 15 2017 // The Arkansas House has approved legislation aimed at preventing kid-friendly advertising and packaging of medical marijuana, and may soon consider banning any pot ads altogether. The House approved by an 89-1 vote...
Feb 6 2017 // Arkansas has lower auto insurance rates than the neighboring states of Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, the state insurance department reported.The Arkansas Insurance Department says a study by the National Association of...
Feb 3 2017 // The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has issued a consent administrative order against the city of Pine Bluff and its parolee- and prison-labor demolition program that was shut down last year. The Arkansas...
Jan 27 2017 // Lawyers who won a $45 million settlement for Arkansas Marlboro Lights smokers will now receive a $1.9 million payment for the case.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox approved the...
Jan 26 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has been named vice-chairman of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Workers’ Compensation and Examination Oversight Task Forces.The mission of...
Jan 25 2017 // Arkansas has lower auto insurance rates than the neighboring states of Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, the state insurance department reported.The Arkansas Insurance Department says a study by the National Association of...
Jan 23 2017 // Arkansas forestry officials say 2016 was a relatively quiet year for wildfires, but the fires still burned nearly 30 square miles in the state. The Arkansas Forestry Commission says there was a total of 1,248 wildfires...
Jan 19 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has been named vice-chairman of the Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).In a statement released by...
Jan 19 2017 // More than 21,000 Marlboro Lights smokers and their attorneys will receive a portion of $29.1 million from a lawsuit settlement fund approved by an Arkansas judge.A Pulaski County Circuit judge approved the payment on Jan....
Jan 16 2017 // An Arkansas jury has ordered Union Pacific Corp. to pay a former engineer $2 million for injuries he suffered in a 2013 train crash.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that nine of 12 Pulaski County jurors decided...
Jan 13 2017 // A Fort Smith, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for defrauding insurance customers, federal authorities say.Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the...
Jan 12 2017 // A transit system serving four counties in northwest Arkansas has restricted its service after an early morning fire destroyed nearly all its buses. Ozark Regional Transit says the fire broke out on Jan. 10 in a bus canopy...