News director Dave Elswick over at KARN (FM 102.9, AM 920) says the station will carry The Huckabee Report, which premiered today at 35 stations. It will be a couple of weeks before the show is picked up; the Huckster will be piped in at the less-th
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Former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta is Obama's pick to head the CIA, the New York Times is reporting. The Times says Panetta is an "unusual choice to lead the C.I.A., an agency that has been unwelcoming to previous direc
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The 20 Arkansas counties that sued cold-medicine manufacturers because the ingredients in their products could be used to make methamphetamines lost their case at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals today. The court said their logic -- that their claim
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More to come, but I just caught news that a Caterpillar motor grader production plan is slated for the vacant video plant in North Little Rock.
Not long ago, Caterpillar (which has had contentious relationships with a union representing assemb
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Dick Bond, president and chief executive officer of Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN), announced today he is leaving the company, effective immediately. Leland Tollett, former chairman and CEO of the company, has agreed to return to the company as Presid
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Arkansas Higher Ed director Jim Purcell makes the argument to Arkansas Business that the caps on public college scholarships needs to lowered to ease the burden on non-scholarship students.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson wasn't forthcoming with Obama's transition team about the seriousness of a grand jury investigation into a contract awarded a supporter, Politico's Jonathan Martin writes, but critics say the team should have vetted h
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Those 500 jobs to be announced today in NLR, said to be related to "utility vehicles." Here's an uninformed guess: it's a maker of the mini-trucks that are popular in agricultural and commercial uses worldwide. Generally, they ar
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Arkansas's resident Queen of the Undead, Charlaine Harris -- the Magnolia native whose vampire-themed mystery series was adapted into the well received HBO show "True Blood" -- is headed to the Houston Public Library for a talk on Tuesday.
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A power outage has left part of downtown in the dark. Worker at the Stephens Building said the power's been out for a while and that he was told by Entergy that things may be screwy for the next six hours. He said the Capitol Hotel is affected as we
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