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Arkansas snail first invertebrate removed from endangered list
State Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 6:28pmLITTLE ROCK — A tiny, dusky brown or buff-colored terrestrial snail found only on Magazine Mountain in Logan County is the first invertebrate to be removed from a list of the nation’s most...
Wheat growers should hold that itchy sprayer finger
State Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 6:17pmLONOKE, Ark. — Yes, those are stink bugs in your wheat field. No, you probably shouldn’t start spraying just yet.
That’s the assessment of Gus Lorenz, extension entomologist for the...
Rain-delayed growers make late-inning rally to plant crops
State Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 5:53pmArkansas’ cotton, rice and corn growers are making a late-inning rally after a spring-long rain-and-cold delay that kept them from planting their crops.
The brightest number in the latest...
Blast at gun powder distributor injures worker
State Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 5:47pmCLARKSVILLE — One person suffered severe burns Tuesday in an explosion at a gunpowder distributor in rural Johnson County, authorities said.
Investigators from the Little Rock office of the...
Boozman backs 2013 Senate farm bill
State Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 4:54pmWASHINGTON — Unlike a year ago, Arkansas Sen. John Boozman supported a five-year farm bill that cleared the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday with additional help for southern rice and...
Arkansas to get $5 million in settlement with drug maker
State Comments Updated: May 14, 2013 4:13pmLITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ Medicaid program will receive more $5 million in a settlement with an India-based drug manufacturer that was accused of introducing low-quality drugs into the U.S. market,...
GOP lawmaker Hobbs to run for governor
State Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 9:47pmROGERS — State Rep. Debra Hobbs, R-Rogers, said Monday she plans to run for governor next year, joining a growing field of Republicans with designs on working with a GOP-controlled Legislature....
Board OKs merger of two districts, removes district from fiscal distress
State Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 4:24pmLITTLE ROCK — The state Board of Education on Monday approved the voluntary annexation of the Bradley School District to the Emerson-Taylor School District in southwestern Arkansas and removed the...
UAPB, UAM seek tuition increases
State Comments Updated: May 13, 2013 4:21pmLITTLE ROCK — A committee of the University of Arkansas Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet Tuesday to consider proposed tuition and fee increases at the university’s five four-year campuses...
Event seeks to raise awareness of mothers, children separated by incarceration
State Comments Updated: May 10, 2013 7:45pmLITTLE ROCK — About 26,000 Arkansas children have an incarcerated parent, according to Dee Ann Newell, executive director of Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind.
The group held its...