Stories by Cyd King
RSSWal-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...
Marina planned for river cruisers
Owners angling for prime locale
River cruising is returning to the Logan County side of Lake Dardanelle. Continue reading...
Redbud bloom near at museum
Crystal Bridges’ Tennessee import deemed a showstopper
The Appalachian redbuds at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art are showing their magenta-colored nubs. Continue reading...
Museum will offer Buckyball dazzle
Beginning in early May, visitors to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will notice a striking, 30-foot lighted sculpture that looks like the multicolor outline of a soccer ball nested within another lighted ball near the main entrance to the museum. Continue reading...
Parkinson’s sufferer has feel for quilting
His design featured on ’13 calendar
Jerry Patnoe started quilting nearly 20 years ago, when his former wife died, so he’d have quilts to pass down to his grandchildren. Continue reading...
Student improves after car accident
A University of Arkansas sophomore struck by a car on U.S. 412 in Tontitown early Monday has been upgraded from critical to serious condition at Mercy Hospital Springfield, hospital officials said Tuesday. Continue reading...
State drought improves, but officials wary
Not ‘out of the woods’ yet, two scientists in region say
The drought situation in Northwest and western Arkansas is improving, but weather-service officials warn that the tell-tale months that determine ongoing drought issues are yet to come. Continue reading...
Museum pays top dollar for art
Acquisitions include $10.16 million sculpture
Two of five new works on display in Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s 20th-Century Art Gallery brought record prices for the artists when the museum acquired the works at auction last fall. Continue reading...
Museum association dubs Wells top worker
Crystal Bridges’ Museum of American Art’s Heather Marie Wells was named staff member of the year during the Arkansas Museum Association’s annual meeting this week in Bentonville. Wells, digital media specialist at Crystal Bridges, also sits on the association’s board. Continue reading...
Former Tyson exec, landowner, survivor
After losing most of the fingers on his right hand in a gun accident in high school, Fayetteville businessman Joe Fred Starr went on to survive hepatitis in his 30s, prostate cancer in his 60s and a catastrophic health crisis in Mexico a few years back. He died early Wednesday at age 79 at Washington Regional Hospice. Continue reading...
UA teaching space gets touch of class
Hillside Auditorium doubles as showcase for three black artists’ work
The University of Arkansas’ newest academic building is also an up-and-coming contemporary art venue. Continue reading...
Rockwell travels to Bentonville
“American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell,” on display at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art through May 27, is the largest touring body of the iconic artist’s original works. With 50 of Rockwell’s oil paintings and all 323 covers that he did for the Saturday Evening Post, the exhibition is a big, juicy slice of American pie. Continue reading...
Vaquero to Rear Up Along Museum Trail
Crystal Bridges to install 16-foot sculpture
A large fiberglass sculpture of a Mexican cowboy atop a bucking bronco is being installed this week along the art trail at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Continue reading...
Vaquero to rear up along museum trail
Crystal Bridges to install 16-foot sculpture
BENTONVILLE — A large fiberglass sculpture of a Mexican cowboy atop a bucking bronco is being installed this week along the art trail at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Continue reading...
2 museums to co-own 1792 Hamilton portrait
Crystal Bridges to share donated painting
BENTONVILLE – The full-length Portrait of Alexander Hamilton (1792), on loan to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art from global financial services company Credit Suisse, will become joint property of the Bentonville museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Value of the oilon-canvas painting by Revolutionary-era painter John Trumbull was not immediately known. Continue reading...
500 To Spend Day Aiding Nonprofits
United Way Holds Event Annually
Nearly 500 people across Northwest Arkansas will have a day away from the office Wednesday. Continue reading...
Tulsa Pop-Culture Site Awaits Funds
State Historical Society Says City, Artists Ready; Needs Legislature To Vote
A new museum featuring Oklahoma’s most famous entertainers and their influence on popular culture is set to open in Tulsa as early as 2017, pending approval of a $42.5 million bond issue from the state. Continue reading...
Grain mill crafts new water wheel
Rogers-area site using 1832 plan
WAR EAGLE — Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way. Continue reading...
Scouts, Boy and Girl, hit campus for a day
UA, fraternity host Scouting University
FAYETTEVILLE — Classes on Saturday? Continue reading...
Facility to serve many functions
Hunt Chapel not just for funerals
ROGERS — By the time J.B. Hunt died after a fall on the ice in December 2006, he had founded and retired from J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. and was in the middle of developing thousands of square feet of retail and office space in Rogers. Continue reading...
Old barns in state getting new attention from painter
Artist’s goal is depiction from each county
GOSHEN — Watercolor painter George Dombek became infatuated with the look of aging barns as an undergraduate architecture student at the University of Arkansas 40 years ago. Continue reading...
Didn’t Pay Taxes, Businessman Says
George Avlos, 45, pleaded guilty Wednesday to evading federal income taxes and failing to pay payroll taxes for employees of his Fort Smith business, LinLex Inc. Avlos was the sole owner and president of the company, which provides consulting services as they relate to Department of Transportation regulations. Continue reading...
Classes offer dancing with a star
FAYETTEVILLE — Broadway dance star and Arkansas native Bill Hastings may be 62, but he has the moves and physique of a 22-year-old. Continue reading...
Glassman selected for Crystal Bridges board
Elizabeth Glassman, president and chief executive officer of the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago, was recently appointed to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art board of directors, museum officials announced Thursday. Continue reading...
Two men sentenced for bank-loan scam
William B. Hemm, 33, of Fayetteville and Christopher Lee Talley, 41, formerly of Northwest Arkansas, were sentenced in federal court Friday for scheming to bribe a bank officer to get a $6.2 million loan. Continue reading...
Hotelier to talk hospitality at UA event
Hotelier Jack DeBoer started his career as a real estate developer, building single family homes then apartments. By 1973, he and his father had built more than 16,000 apartments in 30 cities across 25 states, and National Real Estate Investor magazine recognized their company as the second-largest multifamily developer in the United States. Continue reading...
Fort Smith teen held in shooting
Suspect’s aunt killed at home
A 19-year-old Fort Smith man was arrested and jailed on charges of first-degree murder Thursday in the shooting death of his mother’s sister at her home. Continue reading...
Fort Smith Arts Scene To Get Some Fresh Paint
New Exhibits To Open; 1 Features Native
Since opening in mid-January, the Fort Smith Regional Arts Museum has welcomed about 1,200 visitors, including 330 school children and 500 opening-night gala guests, some of whom paid $250 to attend the exhibition and lecture “The Secrets of Mona Lisa.” Continue reading...
Homelessness hard to gauge
How groups count can vary
FAYETTEVILLE — Vicki White’s 19-year-old daughter, Samantha, is pregnant with twins. If the babies’ daddy, James Pool, 28, doesn’t find a job soon, the pair could be moving into Vicki White’s two-bedroom apartment in Springdale. Continue reading...
Tulsa art exhibit paints portrait of rural life
The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa is celebrating the start of its 75th year with an exhibition of 21 prints from the 1930s to 1950s titled “Rural America.” The works, picked from the museum’s permanent collection of 2,000 or so prints, will be shown Sunday through April 21. Continue reading...
Tally To Exhibit Feat Of Clay
Potter To Spin His Wheel On-Site At Crystal Bridges Museum
Arkansas potter Trent Tally will be the first artist to create art while shoppers watch inside the museum store at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. Continue reading...
Reality TV chef is MovieLounge’s star attraction
There’s a new chef and sheriff in Fort Smith, the former with experience in some of Dallas’ finest restaurants. Continue reading...
Rockwell’s art exhibit’s focus
50 original oil paintings listed as among work set for display
BENTONVILLE — Famed American illustrator Norman Rockwell captured his subjects as they celebrated life’s everyday moments — their trials, triumphs, struggles for social justice and a raw human spirit. Continue reading...
Center’s chief: News is history
Dixon in his element at UA
FAYETTEVILLE — Randy Dixon went to work for KATV-TV, Channel 7, in Little Rock when he was 19 years old, hired by former news director Jim Pitcock. Continue reading...
Women’s Shelters See Uptick In Inhabitants
Financial Stress A Factor, Facility Director Says
ROGERS — Although the local economy is making gains, money problems remain a stress point for troubled couples already struggling with pre-existing relationship issues. Continue reading...
Museum digital exhibit features color catalogs
LITTLE ROCK — The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art launched its first digital exhibition Tuesday — a 69-piece collaboration with University of Arkansas Libraries titled Fruit-full Arkansas: Apples. Continue reading...
Cooper of Cooper Communities dies at 74
John A. Cooper Jr. of Bella Vista, chairman and chief executive officer of Cooper Communities Inc., died at Mercy Northwest Arkansas hospital in Rogers late Sunday from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a breathing ailment. Continue reading...
Portraits a salute to survival
Faces of the downtrodden captured at church’s free meal
FAYETTEVILLE — Celebrated photographer Andrew Kilgore calls the photo collection “A Reluctance to Engage,” though his striking portraits of Community Meals patrons lining the east wall of the parish hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church depict his subjects as willing participants. Continue reading...
Hospital help across the border
In trauma cases, state lines no barrier to care
Mercy Hospital Springfield, with one of Missouri’s busiest Level I trauma and burn centers, is expected to receive and treat upward of 2,700 critically injured patients by the end of 2012. Some 400 of those will have come from Arkansas, hospital officials said. Continue reading...
No classes, but few stay to keep lights on at UA
Answering calls doesn’t stop for the holidays
At first glance, the University of Arkansas campus may appear empty and lifeless during the winter break, but there’s activity behind several of the building’s brick and limestone facades. Continue reading...
Mona Lisa show to open Fort Smith museum
The Fort Smith Regional Art Museum will open Jan. 19 with an opulent, 16th century Italian-themed gala and a preview of the museum’s inaugural exhibition, “The Secrets of Mona Lisa.” Continue reading...
