Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
2 Arkansas Teens Killed After Being Struck by Train While Walking on Tracks
May 24 2023 // CABOT, Ark. (AP) – Two teenagers have died after being struck by a train while walking on the tracks near a park in a central Arkansas town. Liam Harrison and Charlie Elliott, both 16, died in Cabot on Saturday...
Founder of Morgan White Insurance Group in Mississippi Dies in Arkansas Plane Crash
May 22 2023 // FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – The pilot killed after his small plane crashed May 17 in northwest Arkansas has been identified as former Mississippi state Sen. Johnny Morgan, authorities said. A family member confirmed...
Business Moves
May 22 2023 // National American Financial Group, Crop Risk Services American Financial Group Inc. and American International Group entered into a definitive agreement whereby AFG will purchase Crop Risk Services (CRS) from AIG. Under...
AM Best Downgrades Ratings of Farm Bureau Mutual in Arkansas
May 18 2023 // AM Best downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B++ (Good) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bbb+” (Good) from “a-” (Excellent) of Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance...
Oakbridge Expands Presence in Arkansas
Apr 25 2023 // Oakbridge Insurance Agency has announced a new partnership with Wes Sullivan and his team of Arkansas-based insurance professionals specializing in commercial trucking insurance for large fleets. The partnership supports...
OGA Acquires Arkansas’ Jaeger + Haines, Inc.
Apr 4 2023 // One General Agency (OGA) of Oklahoma City announced that it has acquired Jaeger + Haines, Inc., a wholesale broker in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Since 1976, Jaeger + Haines has served agents across Arkansas, Missouri,...
Arkansas Tornado Survivors Recount Flying Debris, Destroyed Buildings
Apr 3 2023 // WYNNE, Ark. (AP) – With tornadoes hitting the Midwest and the South this weekend, some survivors said they emerged from their homes to find buildings ripped apart, vehicles tossed around like toys, shattered glass...
Arkansas Lawmakers Revamp Bathroom Bill Condemned as Too Extreme
Mar 30 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas bathroom bill that went further than a 2016 North Carolina law that was repealed after widespread boycotts was revamped Tuesday following complaints from members of the...
Arkansas Sues TikTok, Meta Over Child Safety, Privacy Claims
Mar 30 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The state of Arkansas sued TikTok and Facebook parent Meta on Tuesday, claiming the social media companies were misleading consumers about the safety of children on their platforms and...
Arkansas Governor Passes School Bathroom Bill
Mar 27 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders last Tuesday signed a law prohibiting transgender people at public schools from using the restroom that matches their gender identity, the first of...
NTSB: Strong Winds During Arkansas Plane Crash
Mar 21 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – During last month’s deadly crash of a small plane near Little Rock, there were “changing/deteriorating weather conditions from the time of taxi, takeoff, and the accident,”...
Arkansas Tyson Workers Sue Over Lack of COVID Precautions
Mar 10 2023 // Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members filed a lawsuit against the company Monday, saying it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-packing plants during the early days of the...
Arkansas Lawmakers Send Governor Trans Care Malpractice Bill
Mar 10 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas House sent the GOP governor a bill Wednesday to make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors, moving to effectively reinstate the state’s...
NTSB Investigates Arkansas Plane Crash That Killed 5 Employees of Environmental Firm
Feb 24 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) _ Federal investigators headed to Arkansas Thursday to determine the cause of a small plane crash that killed five employees of an environmental consulting firm. Investigators from the National...
Arkansas Challenges EPA’s Blocking of State Ozone Plan
Feb 22 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to reject its plan to comply with federal rules that are supposed to assure that the...
Arkansas Malpractice Bill Would Restrict Trans Youth Medical Care
Feb 15 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Nearly two years after Arkansas became the first state to enact a now-blocked ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Republican lawmakers are trying to effectively reinstate the ban with a...
Mayton Named to Arkansas Workers’ Comp Commission
Jan 18 2023 // Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she will appoint Michael Mayton to the Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission (AWCC). Mayton works as a lawyer in private practice specializing in the...
Lawsuit Filed Over Arkansas Inmate’s Malnutrition Death
Jan 18 2023 // LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The family of a man who died from dehydration and malnutrition while being held in a west Arkansas jail filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming jail staff ignored his medical and mental health...
Northwest Arkansas Insurance Agent Dies in Plane Crash
Jan 12 2023 // Arkansas insurance agent Brant Barnes died in a Jan. 6 plane crash in Washington County. Barnes, 43-years old of Tontitown, was the lone occupant in the Beech, M35, fixed wing, single engine aircraft when it crashed off of...
OSHA Fines Arkansas Contractor $287K for Worker Deaths
Dec 9 2022 // Federal workplace safety investigators have determined that an Arkansas construction contractor failed to test oxygen levels in the confined space before two workers entered a sewer 20 feet below ground at an Edmond work...
