ON THE BLOCK: Assets of bankrupt Yarnell’s being sold today. A bankruptcy trustee is auctioning assets of the failed Yarnell’s Ice Cream company in Searcy today. Fox 16 reports sale of the company’s recipes for $2,500. The Democrat-Gazette says an initial bid of $1.4 million for everything was deemed too low. The company leaves millions in [...]

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Maylon Rice, a former newspaperman who’s now director of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District, has announced he’ll run for the legislature as a Democrat for House District 85. That’s Uvalde Lindsey’s district, but he’s running for Senate. The shape of the district was changed by reapportionment to cover eastern Fayetteville, Farmington and rural areas [...]

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We reported back in mid-October on a new initiative to ramp up capital lending in the Arkansas Delta when we noted micro-lender ACCION’s foray into the state. Today, company leaders made it official with the opening of two locations in North Little Rock and Helena-West Helena. ACCION Arkansas, an extension of ACCION Texas Inc., is a non-profit [...]

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Fort Smith’s 106-year-old hospital is being renamed.

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LITTLE ROCK — People seeking a commercial driver’s license or renewing their CDL will be required to provide proof of medical certification under a federal law that takes effect at the end of January.

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NORTH LITTLE ROCK — A new array of solar panels at the L’Oreal makeup plant in North Little Rock is projected to produce 20,000 kilowatt hours a year, company officials said Monday.

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LITTLE ROCK — Entergy Arkansas on Monday filed a request with the state Public Service Commission to transfer control of its transmission facilities to a regional transmission organization.

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For some of the hundreds lined up outside Fort Smith retail stores on Thanksgiving, it was not about the shopping.

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WASHINGTON — Main street merchants are getting a boost from political leaders this year who are eagerly embracing “Small Business Saturday.”

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Law enforcement officials say Black Friday shoppers can make the biggest shopping day of the year safe and pleasant.

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