All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 25 2015 // A new study from the Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) identified new predictors of worker outcomes that can help public officials, payors, and health care providers in Arkansas improve the treatment and...
Jan 2 2015 // Exxon Mobil said it shouldn’t have to release any further information on a proposed but abandoned pipeline intended to run alongside the Pegasus pipeline that ruptured in 2013 in central Arkansas.The company is...
Dec 28 2014 // Offering customers discounts in future purchases and free credit monitoring —strategies used by Target after its large-scale data breach — may raise suspicions rather than satisfy customers’ sense of justice,...
Dec 18 2014 // Arkansas Gov.-Elect Asa Hutchinson has announced that state Rep. Allen Kerr will be the new state insurance commissioner.Kerr has been a Farmers Insurance agent for more than 30 years and along with his wife owns the Allen...
Dec 15 2014 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and wire fraud.Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Steven Alan Standridge was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Hot Springs....
Dec 12 2014 // The National Weather Service says it will recognize Faulkner County in Arkansas as a “StormReady” community next week.Forecasters said that with the deaths in last April’s tornado at Mayflower and...
Dec 11 2014 // A new report indicates that the number of school-based arrests in Arkansas has increased 13 percent since 2011. The report by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families looked at school-based arrests across the state in...
Dec 9 2014 // A federal judge in Arkansas says he won’t certify a complaint against Whirlpool Corp. as a class-action lawsuit because he is not sure whether residents of a polluted Arkansas neighborhood or the company is the...
Dec 8 2014 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering and wire fraud.Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Steven Alan Standridge was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Hot Springs....
Dec 3 2014 // Seven months after a deadly tornado struck Vilonia residents and business owners are still working to rebuild the central Arkansas community. Marty Knight heads the Rebuild Vilonia committee and says recovery has been...
Dec 1 2014 // The 1,200-pound steel cylinder in James Trudeau’s driveway certainly struck his Bourbonnais, Ill., neighborhood as odd, at least at first.Even Kankakee County’s planning department wasn’t sure what to...
Nov 7 2014 // The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on a train collision in northwest Arkansas that left dozens of people with minor injuries. The collision happened Oct. 16 when an Arkansas &...
Nov 6 2014 // Two Arkansas-based companies have been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for workplace safety violations. Combined penalties proposed by OSHA for the two firms...
Nov 5 2014 // Sherwood, Ark., authorities are investigating a weekend fire at the historic Roundtop Filling Station, built in 1936 and known for its inverted-cone-shaped roof.Sherwood police spokesman Lt. Jamie Michaels told the...
Nov 4 2014 // A survey of Arkansas hospitals found the number of patients without insurance was down during the first half of 2014 and the state’s expansion of the Medicaid program under the “private option” is said to...
Nov 3 2014 // The Arkansas Insurance Department announced that it has completed the initial phase of the State Based Systems (SBS) implementation process, making it the latest state to take advantage of the National Association of...
Oct 24 2014 // Jonesboro, Ark., police have arrested a man who they say handed an officer an insurance card covered in cocaine residue during a traffic stop.The Jonesboro Sun reports 31-year-old Shannon Ray of Jonesboro was charged with...
Oct 14 2014 // A powerful storm system swept across Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma late on Sunday and early Monday, killing at least one person and injuring four others, emergency officials said, as millions of people were in the path of...
Oct 10 2014 // A fire last month at a building that housed the offices of the Arkansas County sheriff and county judge was deliberately set, federal investigators said.No injuries were reported in the early morning fire at the courthouse...
Sep 23 2014 // Emergency management agencies in five states – Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas – have been awarded more than $1.6 million in preparedness grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA),...