Latest Arkansas Headlines
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Arkansas Medical Board OKs Draft Regulations Aimed at Curbing Opioid Abuse
Dec 12 2017 // The Arkansas State Medical Board has approved draft regulations aimed at reducing opioid abuse. The board unanimously voted in favor of the regulations on Dec. 7. The requirements are based on guidelines issued last year...
Arkansas Farmers Get $466M in Payments for Crop Losses in 2016
Dec 11 2017 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Arkansas farmers received $466 million in federal “safety net” payments this year for their crop losses in 2016, third highest in the nation. The Arkansas...
Monsanto Moves to Stop Arkansas from Banning its Dicamba Weed Killer
Dec 8 2017 // Monsanto has asked a judge to prevent Arkansas from enforcing a proposal going before lawmakers next week that would ban the use of a weed killer that farmers in several states have said drifts onto their crops and causes...
La Nina Adds to Wildfire Threat in South Central, Plains States
Dec 4 2017 // Conditions are ripe for winter wildfires from the mid-South through the Great Plains thanks to a combination of weather factors, including the climate phenomenon known as La Nina, that have left a lot of dry growth. In...
Drone Prompts Diversion of Arkansas Wildfire Surveillance Plane
Dec 1 2017 // Forestry officials diverted a surveillance plane from its assigned path because a drone hovered above a northern Arkansas wildfire, prompting them to caution people that airborne efforts to take unique photographs endanger...
Wildfire Risk High Remains in Arkansas
Nov 29 2017 // State forestry officials say the risk for wildfires remains high throughout Arkansas as dry conditions persist. The Arkansas Forestry Commission says firefighters have suppressed more than 100 wildfires since Thanksgiving....
Vault E&S Approved as Surplus Lines Insurer in Arkansas
Nov 20 2017 // A new Arkansas-based surplus lines insurer has been approved to do business in the state, according to the Arkansas Insurance Department. Vault E&S Insurance Company has been granted authority to sell property,...
Special Reuters Report: The Path to Monsanto’s Weed-Killer Crisis
Nov 9 2017 // In early 2016, agribusiness giant Monsanto faced a decision that would prove pivotal in what since has become a sprawling herbicide crisis, with millions of acres of crops damaged. Monsanto had readied new genetically...
Vault E&S Approved as Surplus Lines Insurer in Arkansas
Nov 8 2017 // A new Arkansas-based surplus lines insurer has been approved to do business in the state, according to the Arkansas Insurance Department. Vault E&S Insurance Company has been granted authority to sell property,...
Arkansas Mulls 75 MPH Speed Limit, Opens Comment Period
Nov 2 2017 // Arkansas opened a 45-day comment period Monday on whether highway officials should let motorists drive at higher speeds and within minutes had elicited confessions from drivers who wrote that, while they themselves speed,...
Arkansas Officials: Highway Funding May Have to Wait Until 2019
Oct 20 2017 // Arkansas highway officials have left open the possibility they’ll take a road funding proposal to lawmakers in 2019 rather than pursue a ballot measure next year. The move comes a day after Gov. Asa Hutchinson said...
Arkansas Gov. Opposed to Tapping General Revenue for Road Improvements
Oct 18 2017 // Arkansas’ governor says he’ll “vigorously oppose” any highway funding ballot initiative that calls for tapping into general revenue for road needs. Gov. Asa Hutchinson told reporters he opposes any...
Small Quake Rattles Northeast Arkansas
Oct 17 2017 // Geologists say an earthquake of magnitude 3.6 rattled northeastern Arkansas. A report from the U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of about 10 miles and was centered just southeast of Manila in Mississippi...
Arkansas Woman Pleads Guilty in Staged U-Haul Crash Case
Oct 16 2017 // An Arkansas woman has been sentenced to three years of probation, a fine and court costs after pleading guilty to her role in a staged automobile accident in 2016 involving a U-Haul rental. The Arkansas Insurance...
Arkansas Woman Pleads Guilty in Staged U-Haul Crash Case
Oct 5 2017 // An Arkansas woman has been sentenced to three years of probation, a fine and court costs after pleading guilty to having a role in a staged automobile accident in 2016 involving a U-Haul rental. The Arkansas Insurance...
Indiana’s American Inter-Fidelity Exchange OK’d to Sell Insurance in Arkansas
Oct 4 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has granted a Certificate of Authority to an Indiana-based company to begin selling insurance products in Arkansas. Kerr has approved American Inter-Fidelity Exchange of...
Arkansas Officials Seek to Limit Liability in Duggar Privacy Lawsuit
Sep 28 2017 // Arkansas officials are seeking immunity from being sued for releasing decade-old information about a sexual abuse investigation involving Josh Duggar and four of his sisters. Jill Duggar Dillard, Jessa Duggar Seewald,...
Arkansas’ Sen. Rapert Named a NAMIC State Legislator of the Year for 2017
Sep 26 2017 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has named Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert as one of two State Legislators of the Year for 2017. Illinois state Sen. Bill Haine also was honored with the award. Rapert...
2 New Insurers Approved to Do Business in Arkansas
Sep 20 2017 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Allen Kerr has approved two new companies to begin conducting insurance business in his state. Kerr granted a Certificate of Authority to Security First Insurance Co. (SFIC) of Ormond Beach,...
Linhardt Named Regions Insurance’s State Exec for Arkansas, Texas
Sep 18 2017 // Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, has hired David Linhardt as state executive for Arkansas and Texas. As state executive, Linhardt will oversee Regions Insurance operations in the Little Rock, Fayetteville...
