The Southeast Texas Record looks at the pending settlement of the Colossus lawsuit in Miller County, Arkansas Circuit Court, one of the largest in the history of the state. The suit alleges that almost 600 insurance companies have used or currently use Computer Science’s software program “Colossus” to undervalue bodily injury claim settlements. [...]

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Today’s THV will take up the issue of home-schooled kids in public school sports in its C-Block segment at noon today. SB842 (Sen. Gil Baker) is on today’s Senate Education agenda. Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow was allowed to play football for his local high school in Florida — even though he was [...]

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LITTLE ROCK – The first state lottery tickets could be sold this fall now that legislation implementing the games has been approved by the 87th General Assembly and signed into law. The first scholarships funded by lottery revenues will be awarded for the fall semester of 2010. The final passage and signing of identical lottery bills [...]

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In its latest meeting the Authority Board of Directors voted to approve a Seed Capital Investment to Maumelle-based Meritbuilder.com . The web site allows thank-yous and kudos to be sent, received, collected and displayed in association with a specific individual. The goal is to allow a company to create a list that will serve as [...]

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Arkansas public school report cards are going out. They include a new measure intended to show how each public school does in advancing students’ knowledge from one year to the next. Complicated. Here’s a news release to explain it. And here is a spreadsheet of statewide results, by school, on the new index.

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Sierra Club reports on new government study: Washington, DC: The government found no need for scores of new coal plants currently on the drawing board, according to the Annual Energy Outlook report issued by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) today. The outlook found need for just two new coal plants between 2013 and 2025—and that is [...]

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The bill to close the records of concealed weapon permit holders in Arkansas? It hit a speed bump in Senate committee today. Rep. Randy Stewart hoped for an up or down vote on his bill. But the press has been lobbying hard on the issue. Gov. Mike Beebe’s expression of a desire to keep the record [...]

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Word travels fast. Before there’d been a formal announcement in-house here, calls came in about budget cutting underway at the Arkansas Times. We’ve been hit like everyone nearly everyone else in the media by the tough economy. Now the news: Publisher Alan Leveritt said today he’d implemented temporary pay reductions of 4 to 7 percent for about [...]

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A boy fatally shot a 19-year-old relative while they were hunting Monday night outside of Gravette, a Benton County Sheriff’s Office news release said.

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