A residential homebuilder in Fayetteville is suing a Fort Smith developer for breach of a $2 million-plus contract to purchase 60 lots in a new Farmington subdivision.
PAM Transport Inc. of Tontitown is fighting a class-action lawsuit brought in 2016 that it said could send shock waves through the trucking industry and radically change the way drivers are paid.
A deal to end a power struggle between the state's educational TV network and its nonprofit fundraising foundation is under negotiation.
Meat processor Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale sues the USDA for $2.4 million, saying it had to destroy 8,000 carcasses because a federal meat inspector lied about checking hogs at a plant in Iowa. read more >
A bankruptcy judge in New York approved Windstream Holdings Inc.'s request to use up to $24 million for bonuses for top executives, including CEO Tony Thomas and CFO Robert Gunderman. read more >
Details are emerging about a settlement offer floated by Mona Dixon, the longtime AETN Foundation COO who was dismissed by AETN Executive Director Courtney Pledger in February. read more >
The dispute between Bill and Carolyn Schwyhart and creditors has also brought into question what happened to nearly $3.2 million from a once-secret settlement unveiled earlier this year. read more >
Bryan Achorn and Trent Daniels have been sworn in to the U.S. Attorney's Office. read more >
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson has named three people to state judge posts: Gunner DeLay, Marc McCune and Josh Newton. read more >
Gary Russell Gibbs of Niceville, Florida, lists his complete financial details in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hot Springs showing total debts at $171.1 million. That makes his personal bankruptcy one of the largest filed in Arkansas. read more >
A U.S. District Court judge recently awarded a Fayetteville law firm $1.2 million against a former client that didn't pay its legal bill. read more >
Silver Hospitality has taken care of its obligation, settling a suit with Beechwood Hospitality of Little Rock over a $1.1 million loan. read more >
The unemployment rate in the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway metropolitan statistical area remains near a historical low, 3.5% in February. read more >
Last month, folks at the Atkins Chronicle felt the latest blow in a couple of hard-knock years when the small newspaper's retail boxes were robbed. read more >
Margaret Sova McCabe, the new dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, wants to help law students who want to help others. read more >
A federal trial to consider the legality of Arkansas' use of a sedative in executions ended Thursday without a ruling from the bench. read more >
In December, creditors forced Gary R. Gibbs, the developer of the Delta Resort & Spa in Desha County and the Hotel Hot Springs & Spa, into bankruptcy for defaulting on $119.4 million in loans. It's familiar territory for Gibbs, who recovered from a 2005 bankruptcy only to fall back into financial distress after the New Orleans bank that made his loans failed. read more >
In 2017, a jury in New York found the chairman of Dragon Woodland and his wife not guilty of illegally exporting luxury vehicles, forcing the return of 47 luxury SUVs and trucks and $3.7 million seized by the federal government. read more >
A crucial deadline in the Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network's standoff with its nonprofit fundraising foundation came and went this month with no resolution. read more >
The owners of Hole in the Wall campground, a 12-acre tract centered on a cave, filed for an injunction in Benton County Circuit Court after the city ruled the property was inside Bella Vista's city limits. read more >
Two-thirds of Arkansas' counties lost population between 2012 and 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. read more >
The Mueller Report persuades me that Russian interference was not a joint venture with the campaign. Instead, it was something incrementally less despicable: criminal activity against Americans and our democracy by a hostile foreign government that Donald Trump's campaign knew about and welcomed. read more >
Account garnishments are a common and routine occurrence for many financial institutions, and one Arkansas bank is now taking a financial hit due to a routine garnishment. read more >
Amanda Denton and Nicholas Williams have joined Mitchell Williams Selig Gates & Woodyard in Little Rock. read more >
Employees of Bold Team LLC of Cotton Plant, the first operating cultivator in the state's 29-month march to establishing a medical cannabis market, completed stripping hundreds of mature plants this week. The state expects the first dispensary to open in Hot Springs by mid-May. read more >
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sues three drug distributors for their alleged role in the opioid crisis, claiming the companies failed to monitor and report suspicious shipments of opioids into the state. read more >
NanoMech Inc. of Springdale, which filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month, has filed plans to sell the company at auction in June. read more >
A gambling company says it is partnering with the Hard Rock International brand to build a resort in Pope County, but the proposal faces legal hurdles. read more >
A federal lawsuit filed by death row inmates has renewed a court fight over whether the sedative Arkansas uses for lethal injections causes torturous executions, two years after the state raced to put eight convicted killers to death in 11 days before a previous batch of the drug expired. read more >
The Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame announces its fifth annual group of inductees — seven women and one organization — who will be honored at a ceremony on Aug. 29 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. read more >
North Little Rock Mayor Joe Smith had heard complaints about the North Little Rock Municipal Airport. Last fall, he asked some of the critical executives to put their concerns in writing, into a form he could take to the City Council. They did, and the remarks were scathing. read more >
Hot Springs Memorial Field was dedicated on Memorial Day in 1947 to honor Arkansans who fought and died in World War II. But originally, cronies on the City Council had named the airport for Mayor Leo P. McLaughlin. read more >
A Benton man who hit a hole-in-one during a golf tournament at the Malvern Country Club last year thought he was going to drive home with a new 2018 Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck as his prize. read more >
