by - August 8, 2014 7:46 pm
Cotton and Pryor visit Fort Smith, talk jobs, farms and Iraq
The two leading Arkansas candidates in the U.S. Senate race were in Fort Smith on Friday (Aug. 8) with one talking about a jobs plan and the other pledging to…
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by - August 8, 2014 5:51 pm
Election Central: Senate Candidates Discuss Iraq Air Strikes
Roby Brock with Talk Business & Politics delivers Friday’s Election Central Daily Brief. CONGRESSIONALS SPEAK TO IRAQ AIR STRIKES Sen. Mark Pryor and Cong. Tom Cotton, both on the campaign trail…
by - August 8, 2014 3:09 pm
APEX Tool Group Closing Springdale Plant
The tool manufacturing facility is moving operations to South Carolina.
by - August 8, 2014 2:13 pm
Corps officials talk river priorities during three-hour Arkansas River tour
Fort Smith area business leaders, politicians and other local stakeholders got a first hand glimpse of the United States' largest diesel tugboat as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers brought…
by - August 8, 2014 11:26 am
First Security forecloses on Dennis Smiley home
The Pinnacle Country Club home of former Arvest Bank president Dennis Smiley will soon go on the auction block, with mortgage lenders First Security Bank and Arvest claiming rights to…
by - August 8, 2014 10:42 am
Arvest Settles with 18 of 20 Smiley Creditors
Arvest Bank has settled with 18 of the 20 lenders that claimed former Arvest-Benton County president and CEO Dennis Smiley owed them money on toxic loans granted to him on the bogus pledge of stock and stock options.
by - August 7, 2014 6:22 pm
APEX moving Springdale operations to South Carolina, 250 jobs lost
For the second time in a week, Northwest Arkansas’ manufacturing sector was handed a slap in the face as jobs are being moved elsewhere amid corporate consolidations. APEX Tool, formerly…
by - August 7, 2014 5:35 pm
National voter ‘engagement’ for GOP may not play out in Arkansas
A recent Pew Research study said Republicans nationwide have a clear electoral engagement advantage going into the November mid-term elections, but enthusiasm among likely Republican voters is lower than in…
by - August 7, 2014 5:14 pm
UAMS lands $2.1 million to study Marshallese community
A research team at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been approved for nearly $2.1 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study how to…
by - August 7, 2014 5:10 pm
Arvest settles with 18 of 20 banks in the Smiley fraud case
Arvest Bank, which turned over $551,764 to the Benton County Court in the interpleader case of H. Dennis Smiley, has reportedly settled with 18 of the 20 banks holding claims…
by - August 7, 2014 3:46 pm
Trail Trees
President of the Mountain Stewards of Jasper, Georgia to Speak at Hobbs State Park on Trail Trees and Interviews with Native American Tribal Elders In July of 2012, Don Wells,…
by - August 7, 2014 3:41 pm
Getting Better, Not Older
by - August 7, 2014 3:32 pm
Swing for the Cure
by - August 7, 2014 3:30 pm
Pink Ribbon Luncheon
by - August 7, 2014 3:30 pm
AOG opens second CNG fueling station in Fort Smith, 8th in Arkansas
Arkansas now has eight public compressed natural gas fueling stations with the opening Thursday (Aug. 7) of Fort Smith's second compressed natural gas fueling station at 4315 Savannah Road. The…
by - August 7, 2014 3:26 pm
Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation Free Screening
Free Screening & Education Know the Risks. Beat the Odds. September 18, 2014 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm NWA Free Health Center – 1100 N. Woolsey Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72703…
by - August 7, 2014 3:26 pm
Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation Free Screening
Free Screening & Education Know the Risks. Beat the Odds. September 18, 2014 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm NWA Free Health Center – 1100 N. Woolsey Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72703…
by - August 7, 2014 3:26 pm
Arkansas Prostate Cancer Foundation Free Screening
Free Screening & Education Know the Risks. Beat the Odds. September 18, 2014 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm NWA Free Health Center – 1100 N. Woolsey Avenue, Fayetteville, AR 72703…
by - August 7, 2014 2:53 pm
ALDI tops as low-price grocery leader, Walmart 11th in overall service
Discount grocer ALDI – a small box, no frills, private label grocery format – was recognized as the nation’s low-price grocery leader for the fourth year by consumer research firm…
by - August 7, 2014 2:36 pm
Chicken industry shrugs off the Russian sanctions
The loss of the Russian export market for U.S. chicken companies is not expected to have measurable economic impact here in the U.S., according to Jim Sumner, president of the…