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Tea Used To Kill Food Pathogens

Researchers are using tea extracts to reduce food-borne pathogens.

Regions Holding Co. Outranks Arkansas Firms

More than $17.8 billion is held in Arkansas deposits by the 10 largest bank holding companies with offices in Arkansas.

Gift Cards That Keep on Taking

Gift cards may seem like a great idea, but if the recipients don?t use them, then the gift-giver is just throwing money away.

Financial Reports Don?t Meet SEC Standards

Researchers at the University of Arkansas have found that less than 17 percent of financial reports meet Securities and Exchange Commission regulations aimed at keeping shareholders informed.

CommunityCare Foundation Sets New Funding Initiatives

The CommunityCare Foundation Inc. is focusing its funding on specific areas of concern and changing the way it awards grants to area nonprofit agencies to reflect that focus.

Morning News Dips Daily, Recovers on Sundays

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had an increase of 2.5 percent in total paid daily circulation in Northwest Arkansas for the six months ended Sept. 30, while The Morning News had a slight decrease in weekday circulation of 1.4 percent.

Poetry Good for General Assembly (Opinion)

Members of the Arkansas General Assembly should take heed in the lighthearted retelling of the ?Night Before Christmas? that ran in Brenda Blagg?s column in The Morning News on Christmas Eve.

Times Gives City All the Credit (Opinion)

The Northwest Arkansas Times listed the Milken Institute?s rating of the ?Fayetteville Metropolitan Statistical Area? as No. 10 in a list of Top 10 local stories in 2003 but gave the city nearly all the credit.

Mad Cow Recall Expands; Tyson Shares Still Volatile

Moving to contain both the possible spread of mad-cow disease and its potential economic impact, United States agriculture officials expanded the scope of a beef recall just before the new year and

Merrill Cuts Hunt Rating, Tax News Goes Unheralded

Investment firm Merrill Lynch said in late December it cut its rating on shares of J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. to ?neutral? from ?buy.?

Baltz Adds V.P., Pricing Tags to Title

ABF Freight System Inc. in December named Chris Baltz its new vice president of marketing and pricing, replacing Gerald Pirpich, who is retiring Jan. 31.

Springdale Schools Gets New Campus

The structural steel framing is 95 percent complete and the exterior block 20 percent complete on the education wing at the new Springdale High School and LEC Properties recently bought permits valued at $18.9 million

TrestleTree Inc. Branches Out

TrestleTree Inc., the Fayetteville health care firm, has ?graduated? from the Genesis Technology Incubator, consolidated its offices into one corporate facility and moved into about 4,500 SF of temporary lease space on Springdale?s Thompson Avenue.

UA Engineers Procure Satellite Lab

Bob Friedman, Genesis? director, and Neil Schmidt, the former dean of the UA College of Engineering, have helped procure $2 million worth of satellite equipment to start the Electrical Engineering Department?s UA Satellite Communications Lab.

Sloan Slates Fayetteville Subdivision

Developer Charles Sloan has plans for another subdivision in Fayetteville.

Garrison Moves Stock

One of the largest insider shareholders in FedEx Corp. of Memphis has disposed of nearly half his remaining holdings during the past 18 months. Sales and transfers have reduced Sheridan Garrison?s direct stock ownership to about 1.7 million shares.

Community Commitment Unveiled

A new plan unveiled by CommunityCare Foundation Inc. in Springdale for distributing its grant money omitted one impressive commitment.

Forty Under 40: Brittany Adair

Brittany Adair grew up in Little Rock and earned her degree in small business management from the University of Arkansas in 1996.nShe moved to Miami and worked for an insurance…

Forty Under 40: Keri Barber

Keri Barber had already closed on $16 million worth of real estate sales through mid-July, more than quadruple the $3.22 million she did in all of 2003. But she only…

Forty Under 40: Rick Barclay

Rick Barclay has come back to his roots for what he calls his “dream job.” Barclay was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rogers and now helps manage human resources…