by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
A Fort Smith man came to Arkansas Capital Corporation Group in Little Rock in February to apply for $100,000 in funding for a new business idea. Beyond that, the two parties agree on virtually nothing.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Close-knit family backs competing Lynch bankers.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Let?s get real. As long as we keep expecting the quality of parents to improve before we improve the quality of our schools, we are never going to get anywhere.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Since opening in January, Central Security Systems LLC has sold and installed about 50 electronic security systems. But co-owner Drew Perry said that?s barely the beginning.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
As owner and operator of Dental Staffing Specialists Inc., Hughey places dental assistants, hygienists and office staff in temporary and permanent positions.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Robert R. ?Bob? Douglas died April 7 at Fayetteville?s City Hospital after a series of strokes, the first of which occurred last year.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
The 2002 Rand McNally Road Atlas, the bible of road trippers, contains maps of only four Arkansas cities: Little Rock, Fort Smith, Pine Bluff and Hot Springs.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Nancy Skaarer was laid off by KHBS/KHOG, about a week before the station learned the only first place award it will receive this year from The Associated Press is for a report Skaarer wrote.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
We saw the recent episode of HBO?s ?Real Sports? program that featured Bryant Gumbel interviewing Nolan Richardson, the firery and fired University of Arkansas coach turned ?benevolent victim.?
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Arkansas Best Corp. of Fort Smith on April 19 reported first-quarter income that was $7.6 million less than income from the first quarter of 2001.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Headquartered in Fort Smith, Baldor Electric Co. recently declared a regular quarterly dividend of 13 cents for the second quarter, payable to shareholders of record on June 7.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
A truck driver for Springdale-based Cannon Express Inc. was arrested April 20 in Dublin, Ga., after an Alabama woman scrawled a message pleading for help on a bathroom wall in Tennessee.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. of Lowell announced a 206 percent increase in first-quarter net earnings in 2002 as compared to the same period last year.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
P.A.M. Transportation Services Inc. of Tontitown on April 16 said first-quarter net income and earnings per share have increased since the same time last year.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Superior Financial Corp. of Little Rock released on April 1 delayed year-end earnings figures that include restatements going back to the fourth quarter of 2000.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Van Buren-based USA Truck Inc. said its first-quarter net income increased to $73,853, or 1 cent a share, compared with a net loss of $404,910, or 4 cents a share, for the first quarter of 2001.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
The annual shareholders meeting of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, June 7, in Bud Walton Arena on the Univeristy of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, the nation?s largest producer of beef and poultry, announced on April 16 that it has signed a letter of intent to buy a Nebraska bacon processing facility.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
John Brown University of Siloam Springs is targeting January 2003 for occupancy of its $8.5 million William H. Bell Science Hall.
by - April 29, 2002 12:00 am
Ed Lewis, president of Ekba Inc. in Ashdown, has approached the University of Arkansas? Genesis Technology Incubator in Fayetteville about becoming one of its clients.
