Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arkansas Family Sues Driver, Company Over Teen’s Death
Jan 31 2012 // The family of an Arkansas teenager who died after being hit by a tractor-trailer in Texas last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the driver of the truck and his employer. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District...
Alabama Rescuers Search Homes for Tornado Survivors
Jan 24 2012 // Searchers in the Birmingham area were going from house-to-house early Monday in an effort to rescue people trapped in their homes after storms moved across the Midwest and South, prompting tornado warnings in a handful of...
MSO Introduces Farmowners Product in Arkansas
Jan 17 2012 // The Mutual Service Office Inc. is introducing its 2011 farmowners program in Arkansas. The program is being used by a member company that has entered the state. The farmowners program is a self-contained package-type...
U.S. Court Affirms $50M Verdict for Rice Farmers
Dec 12 2011 // The Arkansas Supreme Court has affirmed a nearly $50 million verdict for farmers who say they lost money because Bayer’s genetically altered rice seeds contaminated the food supply and drove down global crop...
Analysis: Health Exchange Debate not Over in Arkansas
Dec 12 2011 // The Arkansas insurance commissioner’s decision to give up on the state running a health insurance exchange isn’t the end of the fight over implementing the federal health care law that required it. It’s...
Arkansas Regulators no Longer Pursuing State-run Health Insurance Exchange
Dec 2 2011 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford has announced that planning efforts for an Arkansas-run health benefits exchange have ended. He stated that legislative opposition to developing an Arkansas exchange has quashed...
Labor Department Accuses Cargill of Discrimination at Arkansas Plant
Dec 1 2011 // Labor officials have moved to cut off federal contracts held by one of the nation’s largest meatpackers, saying it discriminated against women and non-Asians at a plant in Arkansas. The U.S. Labor Department claims...
Small Earthquakes Recorded in Northern Arkansas, Central Oklahoma
Nov 30 2011 // Small earthquakes have shaken parts of northern Arkansas and central Oklahoma A 2.6 magnitude quake struck early morning in the morning on Nov. 29 near Hardy, Ark. The 911 call center in Sharp County didn’t have any...
Deadline at Hand in $750M Rice Settlement
Nov 21 2011 // Rice growers who lost sales after genetically modified rice seed mistakenly entered the U.S. market five years ago have until today to sign on to a $750 million settlement proposed by the company blamed for the...
Agents say Arkansas Earthquake Insurance Sales Up
Nov 21 2011 // Insurance agents say the recent 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma has led many Arkansans to add earthquake insurance to their homeowner policies. The Nov. 5 quake east of Oklahoma City left damage over a wide area and...
Agents Say Arkansas Earthquake Insurance Sales Up
Nov 15 2011 // Insurance agents say the recent 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Oklahoma has led many Arkansans to add earthquake insurance to their homeowner policies. The Nov. 5 quake east of Oklahoma City left damage over a wide area and...
Arkansas Jury Awards $7M in Fatal Truck Accident
Nov 14 2011 // A federal jury has awarded a $7 million judgment to the family of a Farmington, Mo., truck driver killed when his vehicle collided with another semi-truck in northern Arkansas. The panel in western Arkansas found in favor...
Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor Opposes Flood Insurance Mandate Near Levees
Nov 7 2011 // Two U.S. senators are pressing to remove a federal requirement that homeowners and businesses near levees and dams purchase flood insurance. Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) are circulating a...
Arkansas Farmers Make Out OK in Harsh Weather Year
Nov 2 2011 // “It’s about over, except for the shouting,” said Craighead County Extension Agent-Staff Chairman Branon Thiesse about the 2011 crops. “I don’t know how much shouting there will be, but there...
Arkansas Rural Risk Underwriting Assoc. Assessments due Dec. 31
Oct 28 2011 // The Arkansas Department of Insurance announced that assessments from property/casualty insurers and farm mutual insurance companies for the Arkansas Rural Risk Underwriting Association are due by Dec. 31, 2011. The $200...
Back Taxes Result in More than 6,000 Vacant Properties in Arkansas
Oct 24 2011 // More than 6,000 properties are sitting vacant in Arkansas because the owners are delinquent in paying their taxes. Little Rock television station KTHV reports that state Land Commissioner John Thurston says he wants to get...
$1M in Damage Done in Arkansas Storage Fire
Oct 21 2011 // North Little Rock, Ark., fire officials say a weekend fire at a storage unit facility has caused $1 million in damage to recreational vehicles and a boat and $35,000 to the building. Firefighters responded to the blaze on...
Drought, Flooding Cause Hard Times for Farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana
Oct 18 2011 // In a year when severe drought scorched the Southwest, a hurricane drowned crops in the East, and river flooding swamped farms in the Midwest, one of the worst places to be a farmer may be just west of the Mississippi...
Analysis: Health Care Tops 2012 Debate in Arkansas
Oct 11 2011 // Democrats in Arkansas next year can’t escape the debate over the health care overhaul. They can at least try to change the conversation in their favor. The dispute between Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe’s...
Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Seeks Exchange Support
Sep 28 2011 // Arkansas’ top insurance official has asked lawmakers to support the state’s application for a nearly $3.8 million grant to plan for creating an insurance marketplace under the health care law, money that Gov....
