Nursing homes pile cash on court races
Fort Smith nursing home operator Michael Morton and his companies have contributed $113,000 to candidates for the Arkansas Supreme Court -- more than 25 percen…
Fort Smith nursing home operator Michael Morton and his companies have contributed $113,000 to candidates for the Arkansas Supreme Court -- more than 25 percen…
Former University of Arkansas at Fayetteville fundraising division leaders Brad Choate and John Diamond told legislators Tuesday that the state s largest unive…
A second joint legislative committee will take a shot Tuesday at identifying mistakes that led to millions in overspending by the University of Arkansas at Fay…
FORT SMITH — Sebastian County sheriff’s deputies Monday arrested a jail inmate who was awaiting a transfer to state prison — four days after they mistakenly re…
Brad Choate, one of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s most successful fundraisers, is expected to talk publicly this week for the first time about h…
Washington County prosecutors are investigating four issues related to multimillion-dollar deficits in the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Division of U…
The Arkansas Legislative Joint Auditing Committee has postponed until Dec. 13 a second round of hearings into overspending by the University of Arkansas at Fay…
An FBI agent who specializes in financial matters has joined a Washington County prosecutor’s team that is investigating concerns that arose in an audit of the…
Key legislators want to hear other views concerning a state audit report into deficit spending by the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s fundraising divi…
Legislative auditors have completed much of the field work on a review of deficit finances at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s Division of Advancem…
FORT SMITH — Teamsters union leaders are urging more than 7,000 of their members to approve a new, five-year contract with ABF Freight System Inc. in Fort Smit…
FORT SMITH — Like their counterparts in Bentonville, developers in this Old West-theme city on the Oklahoma state line are wagering millions in downtown redeve…
With Wal-Mart Stores Inc. back atop the Fortune 500 list of biggest U.S. companies, about 14,000 shareholders from around the world will stream into Northwest …
FORT SMITH — ABF Freight System Inc.’s tentative contract with the Teamsters — if approved by union members — “would allow us to restore the profitability of o…
Though Arkansas’ two largest airports followed a national trend of declines in commercial airline flights during the past five years, they haven’t been hit as …
The chairman of the board of USA Truck of Van Buren, Robert Peiser, has submitted his conditional resignation after failing to receive a majority of shareholde…
What Arkansas hospitals charge, even for the same medical procedure within the same city, can vary by tens of thousands of dollars, according to recently relea…
USA Truck of Van Buren narrowed its net losses in the year’s first quarter to $2.5 million, or 24 cents per share on improved revenue, according to the company…
Three weeks after Doyle Fowler was elected mayor of McCrory in 2003, American Greetings Corp. made a dreaded announcement.
FORT SMITH — After four months of ongoing contract negotiations aimed at reducing labor costs with the Teamsters union, Arkansas Best Corp. on Tuesday announce…
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Job additions and rising household wealth will continue to support housing demand.” Lawrence Yun, National Association of Realtors chief econ…
Top Wal-Mart executive Michael Duke saw his overall pay top $27.1 million in the past year, including $7.1 million in stock options exercised, according to the…
A Florida-based hospital-management company announced Thursday that it will more than double its workers in Fort Smith to create a regional service center tha…
The chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville had close ties dating back decades with two employees at the center of a multimillion-dollar defic…
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville officials say the costs of hiring new staff members drove a $3.37 million budget deficit in the school’s fundraising div…
The state’s Legislative Audit Division will take charge of a financial review into a $3.37 million budget deficit in the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville…
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville Chancellor G. David Gearhart threatened to call in auditors as early as Aug. 6 last year if he couldn’t get answers rega…
A University of Arkansas at Fayetteville report on its fundraising division’s $3.37 million deficit found “overwhelming” evidence of “lack of management oversi…
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville’s chancellor has called for independent audits by two state agencies into $3.37 million in overspending last year by…
Chaffee Crossing, a 7,000-acre economic development site carved out of the now-closed Fort Chaffee army base, sold almost $3 million in property for commercial…
USA Truck Inc. of Van Buren, which reported its largest quarterly loss ever in October, has fired its chief financial officer, according to a filing with the U…
Imagine high-speed passenger trains of the future zipping from Memphis to Little Rock to Texarkana at speeds up to 200 mph.
After two opening days of labor-contract negotiations, ABF Freight System Inc. said late Wednesday that it seeks “dramatically lower” labor costs from its Inte…
Eight towboats pushing barges sailed through locks at the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam on Saturday, the first day in two weeks that shippers could float cargo…
Representatives from ABF Freight System Inc. of Fort Smith and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union are scheduled to sit down Tuesday in a hotel co…
Rheem Manufacturing Co. said Thursday that it would lay off 75 to 100 hourly employees, effective Jan. 11, as part of seasonal staffing adjustments at its Fort…
Rheem Manufacturing Co. announced Thursday that it would lay off 75 to 100 hourly employees at the Fort Smith plant effective Jan. 11 as part of normal seasona…
Charlotte Patterson enjoys selling poinsettias this time of year for Parks Brothers Farm near Van Buren.
Playing the latest movie clips of British spy James Bond and his signature Walther PPK semiautomatic pistol, Arkansas and Fort Smith dignitaries on Thursday at…
Backers of a planned 105-acre shopping mall in the growing Chaffee Crossing development in Barling say they’re not discouraged about a lawsuit contesting a Nov…