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Loislaw.com Accepts Dutch Acquisition Offer

The Van Buren online legal information provider, which posted a $3.7 million net loss in the third quarter, is taking Wolters Kluwer NV up on its $95 million bid.

Edgewater to Sell ClinForce, Buy Back Shares

The plan will allow Edgewater Technology Inc., which has divested itself of five divisions since June, to focus on its one remaining division, its e-solutions business in Massachusetts.

Executives Make Stock Trades

With 2000 drawing to a close, executives in Wal-Mart and other Northwest Arkansas companies have made transactions.

Kohl?s Gets Permit for Fayetteville Store

The company will build a 93,872-SF department store at CMN Business Park II.

Oakdale Junior High to Get 10 New Classrooms

Plans are also in store for other schools in Rogers.

Rogers Drugstore to Change Name, Site

USA Drug will build a USA Drug Store four blocks away from its Super D Drugs site on West Walnut Street.

Welborn Homes Building Three Rogers Homes

The houses will be on Creekview Drive and will range from 3,469-2,875 SF.

McDonald?s Coming to North Fayetteville

A building permit valued at $476,120 has been purchased for the restaurant, which will be on East Joyce Boulevard south of the Northwest Arkansas Mall.

Developers Turning to Benton County Towns

Fayetteville may be on the bottom looking up at the development boom enjoyed in Northwest Arkansas.

Grinch May Steal Retail Christmas

Retail sales lag nationally during November, but Wal-Mart Stores Inc. weathers the storm with a modest 4.4 increase in same-store sales.

Small Businesses Pen Plans for 2001

New and existing small businesses in Northwest Arkansas face classic hurdles and fresh obstacles for operating in 2001. Budgeting wisely can help prepare for the new year.

The Priority Is to Keep Tech Firms in Town

Arkansas? budding telecommunications sector has the potential to rid the state of its hillbilly image and turn its Northwest corridor into a mecca of technology.

Triad and What?s True

Triad Health Partners closes on property for construction of a new hospital in Bentonville.

Patio or Parking?

Will owners of the C.D. Lounge be able to get their plan to turn a Dickson Street parking lot into a patio past the Fayetteville Planning Commission?

Nutt?n Here

Razorback head football coach Houston Nutt doesn’t show for an awards ceremony attended by 100 high school athletes and their families.

New Hospital Has All But the Kitchen Sink

Johnson’s Willow Creek Women’s Hospital, scheduled to open in January, lacks one convenience: a kitchen. Meals will be catered.

Rolling Down the Road

The word is that entrepreneur Mike Jeffcoat plans to buy the Suzuki portion of the Best Buick Pontiac GMC Suzuki dealership in Rogers and reopen under the name of Razorback Suzuki.

Pizza, Anyone?

Mike Jeffcoat buys a Springdale restaurant on 8th Street that he will reopen as a pizzeria.

Year?s Headlines Include Hogs, Roosters, Flies

We saw tree sitting, another daily newspaper war and a lawyer-turned-fly killer in Northwest Arkansas. Business as usual? Yes, but only because there is rarely anything usual about it.

Man-o-Mana, Vendor Bites Dust

Mexican American-Native American Corp. of Bentonville enjoyed three years as a high-flying vendor to Wal-Mart before legal troubles, mismanagement and AT&T hit.

Entergy Arkansas unveils ‘Next Generation’ plan; will seek to extend nuclear licenses

Fort Smith business leader John Taylor has died

Car-Mart completes $161.3 million securities transaction

Officials ask public to be on the lookout for bird flu in flocks