The UCA trustees have deferred action on extending President Lu Hardin’s contract for an additional year has been deferred until September.
A review of 13 research projects conducted at the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System finds multiple violations of protocol, raising questions whether experiments on human subjects should continue at the facility.
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The UCA trustees have deferred action on extending President Lu Hardin’s contract for an additional year until September.
A legislative subcommittee reviewing school funding recommends the Legislature set aside $24 million annually over the next two fiscal years to help schools cope with high gas prices.
A blaze that burned 102 acres in Garland County last week was intentionally set, according to the state Forestry Commission.
Bloomberg reports that Wal-Mart will pay $2 billion for a Russian retail chain, Lenta.
Construction on the first phase of an $80 million biorefinery in Stuttgart that will use rice hulls and rice straw to make ethanol and commercial silica is expected to begin later this month. That will bring 200 new jobs.
Claiborne Deming, president and CEO of Murphy Oil Corp. since 1994, will retire effective December 31. David M. Wood, currently executive vice president for worldwide exploration and production operations, will succeed him.
Chancellor Joel Anderson says UALR will be smoke free in 2009.
Today is “Ride the Bus to Work for Free Day” at Central Arkansas Transit.
Filing has begun for local offices and will continue till August 26. Four Little Rock board seats are open. Across the river, Pat Hays has filed for his sixth term as North Little Rock mayor.
General aviation may be experiencing a slowdown since fuel price increases, but The Searcy Municipal Airport is experiencing the same economic lift other sectors of the local economy have seen, and an official has linked the improvement to development of the Fayetteville Shale play.
A Craighead County man surrendered to police after killing his wife. Demetricus Hampton was scheduled to appear in Craighead County Circuit Court on Friday for a previous domestic abuse charge.
A Star City woman was arrested on the edge of a cornfield on suspicion of burning down her estranged husband’s house in Yorktown.
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