The lead sponsor of legislation that would allow officers in Arkansas to pull over drivers for not wearing seat belts says he’ll also call on police agencies to collect data on the race of motorists they stop for the violation. …
Food regulators didn’t consider salmonella a threat to most peanut products before they traced an outbreak to a peanut butter plant in Georgia two years ago. Officials in the nation’s top peanut-producing state promptly began checking for the bacteria during …
The Arkansas Senate has approved legislation that would give the governor the power to fire the state’s insurance commissioner at will. The bill would require the state insurance commissioner to serve at the pleasure of the governor. The proposal by …
A series of small earthquakes occurred Jan. 26 in northeast Arkansas. The U.S. Geological Survey said three quakes of magnitudes ranging from 2 to 2.8 occurred between 1 a.m. and 5:09 a.m. a few miles east of Walnut Ridge and …
An Arkansas House of Representatives committee has advanced a pair of bills restricting cell phone use by drivers. The House Public Transportation Committee endorsed a bill by Rep. Ray Kidd, D-Jonesboro, that would ban people of all ages from text-messaging …
A report recently released by the Washington, D.C.-based Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety included Louisiana in list of 15 states to have made progress in enacting key highway safety laws. Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas did not fare so well. …
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Risk management and insurance services provider IMA of Texas Inc. announced additions to its Health Care, Employee Benefits and Surety departments. Michael J. Jacoby has been hired as vice president and national director of the Health Care Practice Group. He …
The lawmakers are back, at least in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Louisiana has to wait until April for the pleasure. For now, though, bars and restaurants in Little Rock, Oklahoma City and Austin will rejoice in the increase in receipts …
No Fund at All “The Legislature was wise in setting up the disaster fund, but we were cheap in not funding it. … A fund that doesn’t have any money in it is pretty much like no fund at all.” …
