All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 7 2009 // An Arkansas rice mill has agreed to pay $350,000 after the federal government found the company discriminated against hundreds of women and non-Hispanic job applicants, the U.S. Labor Department announced.Producers Rice...
Jan 5 2009 // Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe will appoint Watson Bell of Searcy to chair the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission, replacing Olan “Butch” Reeves of Bryant.Reeves will remain chairman of the WCC...
Jan 5 2009 // An Arkansas insurance agent accused of bilking retiree investors out of tens of thousands of dollars and converting the money to his own use is being sought by the Arkansas Securities Department.Terry Mitchell of...
Jan 5 2009 // Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe will appoint Jay Bradford of Pine Bluff as Commissioner of the Arkansas Insurance Department, effective Jan. 15. Braford will replace Julie Benafield Bowman, whose resignation from the post...
Dec 31 2008 // Teenage drivers in Arkansas have a higher rate of traffic fatalities than any other category of drivers in the state, and the AAA wants the state to further restrict driving by young people.The AAA, formerly the American...
Dec 19 2008 // Helmetless motorcyclists should be able to prove that they have enough health insurance to pay for any injuries they may incur while driving, an Arkansas state lawmaker has proposed.Sen. Kim Hendren, R-Gravette, filed...
Dec 11 2008 // The Arkansas Highway Commission has come out against raising speed limits on rural highways because it could increase the number of fatal traffic accidents. Also, it would lower fuel economy for motorists, according to a...
Dec 5 2008 // Making a call or sending text messages with a hand-held cell phone while behind the wheel would be a crime in Arkansas under a legislator’s proposal. Rep. Ray Kidd, D-Jonesboro, filed a bill Dec. 3 prohibiting the...
Dec 2 2008 // Only 5,000 Arkansans of a potential 50,000 have enrolled in a state program to provide health insurance to low-income workers through their employers.The Arkansas Department of Human Services launched ARHealth Networks in...
Nov 30 2008 // A new federal study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone predicts Tennessee would see the highest level of damage if there is a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.The study notes that the total economic impact of a series of NMSZ...
Nov 17 2008 // The U.S. Geological Survey says a small earthquake occurred in central Arkansas.The quake, of preliminary magnitude 2.6, occurred at 7:47 a.m. Nov. 15, 14 miles north of Hector in Pope County. A dispatcher with the Pope...
Nov 7 2008 // A scrap metal yard near in Arkoma, Okla., near the border with Arkansas, remained closed after an artillery shell exploded, critically injuring an Arkansas man.Steve Fontenot, of Fort Smith, Ark., man was still in critical...
Nov 5 2008 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benfield Bowman and Medicus Insurance Company Chairman Howard Lamb announced that Medicus Insurance Company has been approved to write medical professional liability insurance in...
Nov 3 2008 // Federal officials say a 2.7-magnitude earthquake struck on Nov. 1 near the community of Magnet Cove in Hot Spring County, Arkansas.The U.S. Geological Survey reports the earthquake hit three miles northeast of Rockport and...
Nov 2 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission to deny an injured worker’s claim but declined to rule on the injured man’s argument that the Commission...
Oct 28 2008 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has reversed the state Workers’ Compensation Commission’s denial of an injured worker’s claim, but said it wouldn’t address his argument that the panel is...
Oct 27 2008 // The owner of a Little Rock, Ark., insurance company has been sentenced to six years in prison on a federal fraud conviction, the U.S. attorney’s office said.Frank Whitbeck, 61, also was ordered to pay $3.8 million...
Oct 23 2008 // The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department’s newest vehicle carries a steep price tag.At $1.39 million, plus tax, it costs almost as much as a 1,000-horsepower 2008 Bugatti Veyron super car. But while the...
Oct 22 2008 // Arkansas’ unemployment rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point in September to 4.9 percent, but remained well below the national average of 6.1 percent.The leisure and hospitality job sector took the largest hit,...
Oct 21 2008 // Lawsuits filed over a 2005 Union Pacific derailment, explosion and chemical leak in Texarkana, Ark., include one case that claims a second person died as a result of the accident and others that seek damages for thousands...