Latest Arkansas Headlines
All the headlines from our Arkansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Arkansas Town Installs Safe Rooms in All Classrooms
Jan 14 2019 // A school district in a small Arkansas city has installed steel safe rooms in every classroom. KTHV television station reports that installing the safe rooms cost Quitman Public Schools almost $1 million. The safe rooms can...
Arkansas Closes in on Medical Pot Program Launch
Jan 11 2019 // Arkansas panel on Jan. 9 named 32 companies it intends to license to sell medical marijuana, two years after voters approved its legalization and following a series of delays that have frustrated patients and...
Arkansas Issues First Pharmacy Benefits Manager Licenses
Jan 9 2019 // The Arkansas Insurance Department has issued the first two licenses under the 2018 Arkansas Pharmacy Benefits Manager Licensure Act —one to Aetna Health Management LLC and one to CaremarkPCS Health LLC. Aetna Health...
Police Report Shows Speed a Factor in Fatal Arkansas Bus Crash
Jan 8 2019 // An initial police report indicates a charter bus carrying elementary school-age football players from Tennessee was going too fast when it rolled off an Arkansas interstate last month and overturned, killing a 9-year-old...
Arkansas Sees Uptick in the Number of Insurance Agents/Agencies
Jan 4 2019 // There was a 10.8 percent increase in insurance agent licensure in Arkansas in 2018 over the previous year, as well as an uptick in the licensing of insurance businesses, the state insurance department announced. At the end...
Some Arkansas Residents Can Obtain Temporary Oklahoma Marijuana License
Jan 4 2019 // Thousands of Arkansas residents with valid medical marijuana licenses can receive a temporary medical marijuana adult license in Oklahoma, authorities said. The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority has issued more than...
Rainy 2018 in Arkansas Brought Big Pothole Problems
Jan 2 2019 // An unusually rainy year for most counties in Arkansas has left the state’s roadways marked with potholes. Eric Petty, the manager of Little Rock’s operations division, told The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that...
Study Shows Arkansas Auto Insurance Rates Lowest in South Central Region
Dec 18 2018 // Auto insurance rates are the lowest in the South Central region and 17th lowest in the nation, a study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) shows. The Arkansas Insurance Department reported that in...
Georgia-Pacific to Pay $600K Fine, Spend $4.7M on Upgrades in Arkansas Settlement
Dec 17 2018 // An Arkansas paper mill would pay a $600,000 fine and spend about $4.7 million on environmental projects and plant upgrades to reduce air pollution under terms of a proposed settlement. The proposal with Georgia-Pacific in...
Declarations
Dec 17 2018 // PG&E Safety “To operate the grid in a safe manner, PG&E must be able to sign contracts and raise capital.” — Michael Picker, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said utilities...
Wet Harvest Leads to $77M Loss for Arkansas Soybean Farmers
Dec 12 2018 // Arkansas soybean farmers have lost at least $77 million this year after heavy rainfall interrupted harvest season and damaged the quality of the crop, according to a recent report by agriculture experts. Wet conditions...
Arkansas Panel OKs Restrictions on Dicamba Herbicide Use
Dec 11 2018 // An Arkansas panel has given initial approval to allowing restricted use of an herbicide that was banned following complaints that it drifted onto crops and caused damage. The Arkansas Plant Board last week approved new...
Arkansas Jury Awards Woman $3M in Suit over Escalator-Mangled Toe
Dec 10 2018 // Jurors have awarded a New York medical student $3 million after she suffered a gruesome toe injury while riding an escalator at an Arkansas mall. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that a Pulaski County jury has ruled...
Arkansas, Oklahoma Still Recovering From Last Week’s Tornadoes
Dec 7 2018 // Oklahoma and Arkansas continue recovery efforts following a series of tornadoes that ripped through the region last week. An EF2 tornado in Oklahoma’s Lake Tenkiller area destroyed homes, boat docks and buildings....
Charter Bus Crashes in Arkansas; 1 Child Dead, 45 Hurt
Dec 4 2018 // One child was killed and at least 45 other people were injured when a charter bus carrying a youth football team from Tennessee rolled off an interstate off-ramp and overturned before sunrise Monday in central Arkansas,...
Survivors of Arkansas Nightclub Shooting Sue Owners
Nov 30 2018 // Nineteen people who survived a shooting last year at a Little Rock, Arkansas, nightclub filed a lawsuit against the club’s owners, alleging negligence in security and in staff training. At a press conference, two...
Arkansas Plant Board Committee: Regulate Dicamba Use in 2019
Nov 29 2018 // An Arkansas Plant Board committee recommended that the state allow farmers to use the herbicide dicamba next year but extend protections to prevent the weed killer from drifting and damaging crops. The board’s...
Worker in Arkansas Electrocuted at Pine Bluff Plant
Nov 26 2018 // Authorities say a worker in Pine Bluff, Ark. has died after he was electrocuted at a cottonseed oil plant. Pine Bluff police say the employee was changing switches in an electrical cage at Planters Cotton Oil Mill on...
Arkansas Deputy Insurance Commissioner Anderson Receives NAIC Award
Nov 16 2018 // Mel Anderson, deputy commissioner at the Arkansas Insurance Department (AID), has received the Robert Dineen Award for Outstanding Service and Contribution to the State Regulation of Insurance from the National Association...
Arkansas Plant Board Reviewing EPA Decision on Dicamba Herbicide
Nov 8 2018 // The Arkansas State Plant Board (ASPB), a division of the Arkansas Agriculture Department (AAD), announced it has begun the process of reviewing the announced EPA label changes for the herbicide dicamba and will be...
