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Wal-Mart ordered to release records
A chancery judge in Delaware has ordered Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to turn over specific records related to what the retailer’s directors knew about claims that Wal-Mart executives bribed Mexican officials to speed development of stores. Continue reading...
Autumn drop in imports forecast
The import volume at the nation’s major retail container ports is expected to slow to a crawl over the summer and stall out come August and September. Continue reading...
Retailer files suit so critics keep out
Wal-Mart seeks a protest shield
Wal-Mart has filed a lawsuit in Benton County Circuit Court to prevent several anti-Wal-Mart groups from trespassing on store property — specifically to prevent the groups from engaging in past activities, such as unlawful picketing, demonstrations, disrupting customers and confronting managers. Continue reading...
Wal-Mart earnings rise 4.6%
With same-store sales slip, analyst calls quarter ‘ho-hum’
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. reported lackluster first-quarter earnings per share of $1.14 Thursday, blaming the outcome on a longer-than-usual winter and a delay in income tax return checks being issued in the critical first part of the quarter. Continue reading...
8 Wal-Mart investors want execs’ pay clawback details
Eight foreign and domestic institutional investors in Wal-Mart, mostly pension and trust funds, are asking the retail giant to report annually whether the company “clawed” back pay from senior executives found to have performed unethically in the previous year “and to describe the general circumstances of any recovery.” The measure, Proposal No. 8 — Request for Annual Report on Recoupment of Executive Pay — is aimed specifically at higher-ups who are found to have “violated company policy or committed misconduct detrimental to the company.” A clawback Continue reading...
Buckyball eye-catching at art museum
During installation, the flashing lights from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s Buckyball drew the attention of drivers on N.E. J Street. Continue reading...
Eureka gets silly, spherical for arts fest
This “artrageous” community with a population of a couple of thousand people easily doubles in size during weekends in May, when the city’s May Festival of the Arts blooms along on the city’s streets and inside its eclectic galleries. Up to 60 different events are scheduled. Continue reading...
Arkansan has a hand in mural
Ceramic project, others going on in tornado-hit Joplin, Mo.
Arkansas ceramics artist Trent Tally is the chief project artist for a large, three-dimensional, ceramic mural under construction at a downtown storefront in Joplin, Mo. Continue reading...
Woman, 69, hurt in drive-by attack
A 69-year-old Fort Smith woman received minor injuries to her eye during what police described as a driveby shooting early Thursday in the 1400 block of Belle Avenue. Continue reading...
Fort Smith man sues sheriff, deputy
Suit cites rights violation in arrest over video recording
A Fort Smith man is suing Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck and one of his deputies, Cpl. Bryan D. Fuller, over a Feb. 7 incident in which the plaintiff, Braden Michael Purcell, 33, was arrested while attempting to record the sheriff’s SWAT team as it was executing a search warrant at a home on Park Avenue in Fort Smith. Continue reading...
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