Waldo’s Chicken & Beer will not be setting up shop at 101 S. Bowman Road, although the property’s new ownership includes some names behind the rollout of as many as 20 of the franchised eateries in Arkansas and Oklahoma. read more >
Hot Springs dispensary owner Dragan Vicentic's penchant for paying for cannabis in cash, disdaining electronic payments, gives marijuana cultivator reason for blacklisting. read more >
Earlier this month, former county employee John Powell was awarded $16,120 for lost wages and $4,030 for pain and suffering in his suit against Jefferson County and former County Judges Henry “Hank” Wilkins IV and Booker Clemons. read more >
A U.S. District Court judge ruled last week that a 2019 lawsuit can go forward over who designed the $350 million Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff. read more >
A trial date has been set in the case of Dr. Ben Burris, the former Fayetteville orthodontist who is charged with bribing former state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson. read more >
This week, we serve up a trio of million-dollar real estate transactions in Pulaski County as well as a pair of major construction projects. read more >
Turnabout is fair play in Jefferson County, which gained a medical marijuana cultivation center from Newport this month after losing it to the Jackson County seat more than two years ago. read more >
Simmons Bank hauled Encore Bank into court last week over accusations that include improperly luring executives and customers away from the Pine Bluff bank. read more >
The Arkansas liquor industry will likely be asking the state Legislature to pass a bill permanently allowing the delivery of alcohol. read more >
A double dose of dollar store deals in Pulaski and Saline counties and acreage acquisitions in north Pulaski County form this week’s quartet of million-dollar transactions. read more >
A Little Rock real estate investor paid $3.4 million for almost 9 acres in Bentonville, a few blocks south of the headquarters of Walmart Inc. read more >
First National Bank of Paragould wants to move forward with its efforts to collect its debts from disgraced former Craighead County Clerk Jacob “Kade” Holliday. read more >
Apartments, hunting ground, office buildings, mobile home parks and big houses dot the landscape in this week’s installment of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Sterling Bank of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, paid $1.9 million for a 3.2-acre lot at the corner of Steele Boulevard and North Shiloh Drive in Fayetteville. read more >
Randy Dennis’ firm, DD&F Consulting Group of Little Rock, has been involved in something that’s even more unusual than a bank acquisition in 2020: a brand-new bank charter. read more >
State Sen. Joyce Elliott, a Democrat, has conceded her loss to Republican incumbent French Hill in Arkansas’ 2nd District congressional race, but it wasn’t for a lack of advertising dollars. read more >
The lawsuit involving a former in-house attorney for Walmart Inc. has been sealed, including the name of the judge handling the dispute. read more >
What has 87,000 SF of office space, a nice spot in the heart of El Dorado and a $15 million price tag? read more >
Farmland in Lonoke County, an office building in west Little Rock, an apartment complex in downtown Little Rock, a dollar store in Roland and future industrial land in east Little Rock form this week’s lineup of million-dollar real estate transactions. read more >
Arvest Bank now owns bankrupt NanoMech’s 20,000-SF headquarters and production facility at 2447 Technology Way in the wake of an Oct. 20 foreclosure sale. read more >
