LITTLE ROCK – Hay rustlers are putting a cyber spin on a scheme to bilk a few bales out of Arkansas producers, according to Dr. Tom Troxel, professor/associate head of the Animal Science Department of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.

The scam surfaced as producers in Van Buren, Washington and Hempstead counties received e-mails from a supposed buyer, Troxel said. But the producers smelled a rat. …[more]

LITTLE ROCK - In an important Freedom of Information case coming out of Pulaski County, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled that most of the e-mails generated by the county’s comptroller are public records.

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette had sued under the FOI to see the e-mail correspondence between the comptroller and a private vendor who sold software to the county. Under routine circumstances, it would have been a…[more]

Russellville, AR – The nuclear power plant in this central Arkansas city is continuing to run on full power today even after an electrical fire broke out in an auxiliary building on the site.

The plant, which is owned by New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., generates 1,834 megawatts of power to residents in Arkansas. One megawatt can power around 500 homes.

According to a report from the…[more]

Murfreesboro, AR - A Wisconsin man has been the latest person to uncover a diamond at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. His was a 3.92 carat white diamond that he found while digging along with his fiancée yesterday.

In fact, Eric Blake, a 32 year old carpenter from Appleton, Wisconsin, did not have to do much digging at all. He said he found the diamond along…[more]

Surrounded by family and friends of the late civic leader William E. “Bill” Clark, President Bill Clinton and Little Rock City Director Dean Kumpuris today unveiled the plans for the thirteen (13) acre William E. Clark Presidential Park Wetlands Project, which will be a lasting memorial to the Little Rock businessman, philanthropist, and outdoorsman who died earlier this year.

The Clark Wetlands Project involves the restoration of riverfront…[more]

Arkansas will keep its crown in 2007 as the nation’s leading rice grower by producing an estimated 95.4 million hundredweight (hundredweight = 100 pounds) of rice. That’s about 48 percent of the nation’s total rice output, said Dr. Bobby Coats, agricultural policy analysis for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service.
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LITTLE ROCK – Governor Mike Beebe has declared Crittenden and Lincoln Counties state disaster areas due to the damage caused by thunderstorms and tornadoes on Wednesday, October 17 and early Thursday, October 18.

The declaration releases $100,000 from the Governor’s Disaster Fund to be used by the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management through the Individual Assistance Program. Affected residents in both counties can apply for assistance at their…[more]

ROGERS – When Margaret Lockhart attended the school-wide assembly at 11 a.m. Monday morning at
Lingle Middle School, she thought the entire faculty and student body had turned out to see Arkansas
Education Commissioner Dr. Ken James on his first stop in a tour of the state’s schools. As it turned
out, the assembly was for her.

Lockhart is a winner of…[more]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The quality of oak stands in Arkansas forests can be degraded by pests or by “high-grading,” a timber practice in which the best or biggest trees are removed, leaving only inferior or undesirable trees.

Scientists in the University of Arkansas System’s Division of Agriculture are evaluating techniques for rehabilitating degraded forests to increase the value of timber and improve wildlife habitat.[more]

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - A University of Arkansas scientist who studies constructs of a protein that are associated with the cell transformation that causes cancer has received a five-year, $661,018 grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand his research.

Paul Adams, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the J.…[more]