Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Surveyors Confirm 2 More Tornadoes Hit Arkansas Over Weekend
Apr 18 2018 // Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed 11 tornadoes so far from the severe storms that hit Arkansas on Friday and Saturday. The NWS previously said it had confirmed nine tornadoes. The two strongest...
Arkansas Insurance Department Recovers $1.1M for Consumers in Q1
Apr 17 2018 // The Arkansas Insurance Department’s Consumer Services Division (CSD) recovered $1,126,107 for Arkansas insurance customers during the first quarter of 2018, the agency announced. Recoveries are dollar amounts...
9 Tornadoes Confirmed in Arkansas from Weekend Storms
Apr 17 2018 // Survey teams with the National Weather Service have confirmed nine tornadoes so far from the severe storms that hit Arkansas on Friday and Saturday. The two strongest tornadoes were both rated EF2. One hit Mountainburg in...
4 Injured as Twister Roars Through Northwest Arkansas Town
Apr 16 2018 // A tornado ripped through a tiny town in the Ozark Mountains of northwestern Arkansas on Friday, injuring at least four people. The twister struck Mountainburg, Arkansas, around 4 p.m. Friday as a line of severe...
Accused of $211K Insurance Fraud, Arkansas Suspect Surrenders
Apr 13 2018 // An Arkansas insurance firm owner has surrendered to authorities on warrants in Pulaski County for felony insurance fraud, theft and forgery, the Arkansas Insurance Department announced. Joshua Eric Casada, owner of the...
Arkansas Woman Arrested on Insurance Fraud, Arson, Theft Charges
Apr 10 2018 // An Arkansas woman has been arrested on multiple felony charges related to arson and insurance fraud, the state department of insurance reported. The Arkansas Insurance Department said Kittie Louise Payton, 55, of Little...
BB&T Insurance to Acquire Regions Insurance Group
Apr 6 2018 // BB&T Insurance Holdings, which is owned by financial services firm BB&T Corp., has agreed to acquire another bank-owned insurance broker, Regions Insurance Group, from Regions Financial Corp. No terms were...
Arkansas Judge: 6 Farmers Can Spray Controversial Chemical Dicamba
Apr 3 2018 // An Arkansas judge has ruled that six farmers in the state this summer can spray a weed killer made by Monsanto Co. and BASF SE that was blamed for hurting millions of acres of U.S. crops last year. The decision is the...
Arkansas AG Files Suit Against Opioid Manufacturers for Roles in Epidemic
Apr 2 2018 // Arkansas’ attorney general has joined the widening mass of litigation against opioid manufacturers, accusing three drugmakers of promoting addictive painkillers in ways that falsely denied or trivialized their...
Workers’ Compensation Costs to Drop in Arkansas
Mar 27 2018 // Arkansas businesses will see a decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs beginning in July. Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr today has approved a decrease in workers’ compensation cost of 15.4...
Arkansas Judge Tosses Licensing Process for Medical Pot Growers
Mar 23 2018 // An Arkansas judge on March 21 struck down the state’s decision to issue its first licenses to grow medical marijuana, ruling that the process for awarding the permits and the rankings of applicants were...
Opioid Crisis Leads Arkansas Cities, Counties to Sue Drug Makers
Mar 23 2018 // A coalition of cities and counties around Arkansas announced it had sued dozens of makers and distributors of opioids, arguing that the companies should bear the cost of drug abuse in the state. The Association of Arkansas...
Amended Arkansas Open Container Law Approved
Mar 22 2018 // An Arkansas bill amending language in the state’s open container statute to comply with federal law has been passed by lawmakers and signed by the governor. Just last year the state passed an open container law...
Arkansas Cities Are Focus of Study on Limiting Pedestrian Deaths
Mar 21 2018 // A federally funded study focusing on two Arkansas cities will serve as an outline for statewide efforts to reduce pedestrian deaths. Two metropolitan planning organizations in Jonesboro and Little Rock are sharing a...
Citing Discrimination, Black Police Officers Sue Little Rock, Arkansas
Mar 15 2018 // Four black police officers are suing the city of Little Rock alleging age and racial discrimination, underscoring a growing divide between the city’s police chief and an organization for black officers. The federal...
Pharmacy Benefit Manager Regulation Bill Passed in Arkansas
Mar 15 2018 // The Arkansas House and Senate have passed a proposal to regulate pharmacy benefit managers, as lawmakers began a special session focused primarily on addressing a cut in reimbursements rates pharmacists have seen. SB2, the...
14 Arkansas Counties Declared Disaster Areas After Storms, Floods
Mar 12 2018 // The Arkansas governor has issued disaster declarations for 14 counties following severe storms, flooding and tornadoes that began late last month. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on March 9 declared the disasters citing damage to...
NTSB: Drugs, Phone Use May Have Caused 2015 Arkansas Rail Yard Death
Mar 8 2018 // The National Transportation Safety Board says it found several safety issues during its investigation of a 2015 rail yard death at a Pine Bluff packaging plant. The agency says it found illicit drug use by employees,...
Monsanto’s Suit over Arkansas’ Dicamba Ban Dismissed
Mar 5 2018 // An Arkansas judge has dismissed a Monsanto Co. lawsuit aiming to stop the state from blocking the use of a controversial farm chemical the company makes, dealing a blow to its attempts to increase sales of genetically...
Weather Service Confirms 2 Weekend Tornadoes in Arkansas
Feb 27 2018 // The National Weather Service says two tornadoes struck northeast Arkansas during the weekend, including one that killed a man before moving into southeast Missouri. The weather service says an EF-2 tornado with winds of up...
