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Drought and strong prices could push more peanut production out of traditional regions and into states such as Arkansas and Mississippi not known for growing the crop but with ample water to give it a try.
Rice growers who lost sales after genetically modified rice seed mistakenly entered the U.S. market five years ago have until Monday to sign on to a $750 million settlement proposed by the company blamed for the problem.
As an heir to the Wal-Mart fortune, Alice Walton had the means to buy almost any piece of art on the market. So she scooped up one masterpiece after another: an iconic portrait of George Washington, romantic landscapes from the 19th century, a Norman Rockwell classic.
The Justice Department announced Monday it reached a $63.7 million settlement with Accenture LLP in a whistleblower lawsuit that accused the technology services company of rigging bids, taking kickbacks and inflating prices the government paid for computers and services.
Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to stop the planting of genetically-modified crops on 44,000 acres of federal land in the South, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the corn, milo and rice provide food for migrating birds along critical flyways.
Members of the Arkansas Lottery Commission learned Thursday that profits for the fiscal year will come up 2 percent short, but members focused most of their displeasure on not being informed about a contract the lottery has signed.
Former President Bill Clinton dedicated his boyhood home in Hope on Saturday as part of the National Park Service, and he used the occasion to say that the country is having hard times because people are too focused on money and not enough on each other.
A judge agreed Tuesday to postpone a trial until July for a man who said his desire to avenge the death of Muslims at the hands of U.S. soldiers led him to kill a soldier at a military recruiting center in Arkansas.
Windstream Corp. announced Thursday that it would buy Hosted Solutions LLC for $310 million, using the purchase to broaden its offerings in its business services and broadband segments.
Windstream Corp. will buy a North Carolina data and web hosting company for $310 million, the company said Thursday.
The U.S. Forest Service acknowledges in a new report that the agency had no warning plan in place the night 20 people died in a flash flood in southwestern Arkansas.
The jobs of 1,300 workers at a Georgia-Pacific LLC mill in Crossett became more secure Wednesday with the company's announcement that it will spend $250 million to upgrade the facility.
Walmart announced Thursday that it would remove from its shelves nationwide children's products that a consumer group said tested for high levels of lead.
State tax revenues for September fell short of forecast but came in above collections from a year ago, the fifth straight month the numbers were above those from 2009, the state's fiscal officer said Monday.
Even if a newspaper is filled with hard news, the U.S. Postal Service is checking to see whether it's droopy.
As Arkansas gets ready for a tough stretch that begins with its Southeastern Conference opener at Georgia, Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino has a few things he's concerned about.
Arkansas' defense stuffed Louisiana-Monroe's offense all game. It took a half for Ryan Mallett and the Razorbacks' offense to put away the Warhawks.
Caterpillar Inc. dedicated a $140 million road grader factory Wednesday, a facility that will employ 600 people and produce the big machines for markets around the world.
A helicopter ambulance has crashed in the hills of central Arkansas, killing three crew members who were trying to reach a person injured in a traffic accident.
About 1,400 more students will be awarded scholarships with money from the Arkansas lottery, Gov. Mike Beebe announced Tuesday after he learned an additional $5.9 million is available from lottery proceeds.
This heat wave isn't just stifling — it's deadly.
Lawyers for a doctor accused of masterminding a bombing that disfigured the chairman of the Arkansas Medical Board opened their defense Friday, hoping to show that prosecutors "cobbled together" a theory when they couldn't link the physician to the bomb or the scene.
GETTING BIGGER: The 900,000-square-foot Nestle Nutrition Gerber baby food plant in Fort Smith already employs 650 people. The plant will add 50 jobs when it adds a cereal line over the next year.
Windstream Corp. announced Tuesday that it will keep its headquarters in Little Rock and add more than 200 positions, an important announcement for a city that lost a major telecommunications headquarters when Alltel Corp. was bought out by Verizon.
Video taken from a police SUV dashboard camera shows an Ohio teenager on a cross-country trip with his father waited inside their van nearly 10 minutes before stepping out and firing an AK-47 at two police officers who had stopped his dad for an apparent traffic violation.
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