Police: Thieves kill 5 in rural Arkansas for expensive wheel rims, flat-screen televisions Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned ...
Lincoln: Senate agriculture committee to hold field hearing in Little Rock Sen. Blanche Lincoln says the Senate's agriculture committee will meet in Arkansas ...
Arkansas agriculture experts put state's weather losses nearly at $225 million State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly $225 million. The Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service on Friday ...
Children direct certified for school lunches The following is the percent of school-aged children from households receiving food stamps who were directly certified for free or reduced priced lunches by schools in 2008-2009. Percentages above 100 percent are possible because some school ...
Flood waters subsiding, some Ark. growers may try to harvest; good weather predicted A few days of sunshine are just what farmers in Arkansas need. Agriculture officials said Monday that some soybean fields are under water and that plenty of fields need ...
Areas hit hardest by housing bust are recovering more slowly than others, AP stress map shows The economic recovery is proceeding unevenly in its early stages, with areas hurt most by the housing slump still lagging behind other regions, according to The ...
Snow lets up in West, Plains; heavy rain, strong winds lash South, causing flood worries While residents in some Western and Plains states were digging out Friday after an early blast of snow, heavy rain and strong winds that toppled trees, power ...
Newport, Cedarville schools in Arkansas get $3.3M in stimulus money for energy retrofits The federal Energy Department says the Newport and Cedarville school districts in Arkansas will get a total of $3.3 million in stimulus funding to carry out work intended to ...
Farmers prevail over US's most expensive pest; boll weevil gone from 98 percent of US cotton For more than a century, small green beetles ate through U.S. cotton crops, costing growers $20 billion and making the boll weevil the most expensive agricultural ...
Chamber to begin ads against health care overhaul; claims plan would force tax increases Looking to build pressure on moderate Democrats, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it will begin airing new TV ads in seven states and on national cable television ...
Alternative energy companies say climate bill would create jobs, boost Arkansas economy An industry group said Monday that alternative energy companies need Congress to pass the climate bill so they will be assured of a long-term market, one that will ultimately lower ...
Rainwater stands in a cotton field near Keo, Ark., Friday, Oct. 23, 2009. The Cooperative Extension Service estimates that nearly one-third of cotton grown in Arkansas will be lost because of the persistent rain this fall. Arkansas farmers aren't alone in taking ...
