All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2008 // Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas have been hammered numerous times this Spring with violent storms that produced tornadoes, hail, heavy rain and floods, and the damages are mounting.Preliminary damage from an April 8 Oklahoma...
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Apr 16 2008 // Arkansas’ emergency management chief says rising flood waters may undo the cleanup and repairs some homes and regions have already completed after more than a month of flooding.“Some areas we’ve surveyed...
Apr 10 2008 // An insurance industry trade organization estimates that preliminary damage from an April 8 Oklahoma hail storm has risen to $15 million and cautioned losses could increase significantly. Meanwhile, Northern Texas, Oklahoma...
Apr 9 2008 // Two more counties were added April 7 to the state list of disaster areas from severe weather that has beset Arkansas.Gov. Mike Beebe added Lonoke and Pike counties for damage sustained in last week’s severe weather....
Apr 8 2008 // The National Weather Service released a survey of a recent tornado that went from North Little Rock, Ark., into Sherwood and damaged numerous structures at a cost of millions of dollars. Among the casualties was a tornado...
Apr 7 2008 // Burning Down the House“If you burn your neighborhood down, where are you going to live?” —Sandra Richards, a lieutenant with the Memphis Fire Department, after visiting an apartment complex in Pine Bluff,...
Apr 4 2008 // Governor Mike Beebe, after consulting with Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) Director David Maxwell and Arkansas State Health Officer Dr. Paul Halverson, has decided that Arkansas will accept FEMA mobile...
Apr 3 2008 // Arkansas truckers parked their rigs on April 1 to have their say in a national protest over high fuel prices that independent operators say is putting them out of business.Dale Burri of Greenbrier, a driver for J.B. Hunt...
Apr 2 2008 // It didn’t take long for legislators to respond to Gov. Mike Beebe’s challenge to buck history and raise Arkansas’ severance tax on natural gas for the first time in a half century. Most of the money will...
Apr 2 2008 // Floodwaters still need to recede before officials can determine how damaging two weeks’ worth of flooding was to Arkansas, but leaders said it’s shaping up to be a costly affair.“All indications are that...
Mar 31 2008 // Arkansas was spared widespread storms Saturday but remained waterlogged from non-stop flooding that began nearly two weeks ago.Storms hit isolated areas and residents along the White River in east Arkansas and the Black...
Mar 27 2008 // Water continued to rise Wednesday in Arkansas, where federal officials have begun to gather their first damage assessments in the week-long floods that have displaced residents and soaked homes and businesses in nearly...
Mar 26 2008 // Forecasters issued flash-flood warnings for parts of Arkansas’ prairie as the state’s largest water surge in a quarter-century continued its way downstream.Swollen by last week’s storms that devastated...
Mar 25 2008 // After fighting more than 100 arson fires last year alone, Pine Bluff’s fire department hopes ideas from a new committee may help stop the blazes.“If you burn your neighborhood down, where are you going to...
Mar 24 2008 // Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe has declared 26 counties disaster areas due to the damage from this week’s heavy rains and floods. Beebe’s office said last week that more counties are likely to be added to the list,...
Mar 5 2008 // In a report to state lawmakers, the Arkansas Insurance Department revealed that almost a third of Arkansas homeowners and motor vehicle owners paid less in insurance premiums last year because their credit scores were...
Feb 24 2008 // 13Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe declared 13 counties state disaster areas due to the damage caused by powerful tornadoes and violent thunderstorms on Feb. 5. The counties are Baxter, Conway, Franklin, Independence, Izard,...
Feb 24 2008 // Higginbotham & Associates, ATMDHigginbotham & Associates announced a partnership with Allred-Thompson-Mason-Daugherty (ATMD) in an effort to broaden its Texas presence. ATMD is a general lines insurance agency...
Feb 15 2008 // Eric Paul Wells, an attorney from Paris, is the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission’s newest administrative law judge, the agency announced.Since March 2004 he has been the deputy prosecuting attorney for...