Laura Vaught rarely visits her local post office, but she'll drop in from time to time after it's renamed. Soon the small, brick federal building off Perryville's main strip will bear her brother's name. Perryville Post Office 72126 will become the Harold George Bennett Post Office, honoring the first American prisoner of war killed during the Vietnam War -- a young man from Perryville. Click here to read more.
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All six members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation have earned Friend of Farm Bureau distinction, and will be recognized with the honor over the next two weeks in ceremonies to be held across the state. U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, plus House of Representatives members Rick Crawford, Steve Womack, French Hill, and Bruce Westerman each demonstrated support for agriculture and exceeded the required voting threshold on issues of importance, according to Randy Veach, president of th...
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Hill to attend post office's renaming U.S. Rep. French Hill will be in Perryville on Monday for the renaming of its post office. The Republican from Little Rock and U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a Republican from Rogers, sponsored legislation to name the facility after Harold George Bennett. Bennett, a native of Thornburg, was executed June 25, 1965, after repeatedly trying to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam. Click here to read more.
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A developer in Van Buren County is scheduled to begin work next week on a $5 million residential development in Fairfield Bay — the biggest home development the city has seen in more than 25 years. U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark.; U.S Rep. French Hill, R-Ark; Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin; and state Sen. Missy Irvin, R-Mountain View, are expected to attend a groundbreaking event Tuesday for the new Osage Point Luxury Townhomes at 721 Woodlawn Drive. Noacon Inc. of Shirley is the developer. Noacon CFO Mike...
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River silt and road erosion seem unlikely topics for a luncheon at the Country Club of Little Rock, but The Nature Conservancy likes to celebrate its environmental successes in style. The Sept. 30 gathering took place the day after the The Nature Conservancy and BHP Billiton -- a multinational mining, metals and petroleum company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia -- announced the joint Sustainable Rivers and Forests Initiative, a $14 million investment by BHP that will help protect nearly 3,...
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U.S. Rep. French Hill gave his latest Golden Fleece Award to the National Institutes of Health, challenging its decision to spend money studying drunken college students' eating habits. In a letter to the agency's director, Dr. Francis S. Collins, Hill questioned the decision to spend $50,000 on the study. "Other studies have also raised concerns, such as the $1.5 million in funding to study the so-called 'freshman 15' weight gain of college freshmen. While the health and well-being of our natio...
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Hill admonishes Wells Fargo CEO U.S. Rep. French Hill told Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf that he was surprised and disappointed by news of the company's 2 million fake accounts, created by employees under pressure to meet sales goals. "I've been a customer of your company, and I've admired your company and I've used your company as an example for my own businesses in the past 20 years," Hill said Thursday. After learning of the misconduct that cost 5,300 Wells Fargo employees their jobs, "I have t...
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is back in Washington's hot seat Thursday -- but this time, he's testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee. Stumpf's opening testimony was largely similar to that which he gave to the Senate banking committee last week, though he came prepared with two new pieces of penance: the clawback of $41 million of his unvested equity awards, and a promise that his bank is ending product sales goals sooner than its original January 1 deadline. "We should hav...
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John Stumpf walked into a firing line Thursday when he appeared before lawmakers who were furious over revelations that Wells Fargo & Co. may have opened 2 million customer accounts that were fictitious or unauthorized. Attacks from members of the House Financial Services Committee ranged from implying that he sold shares in 2013 because he knew the scandal would tank the stock to assertions that he should be imprisoned and that the entire board should be ousted. It was the second time this mont...
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Averting an election-year crisis, Congress late Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a bill to keep the government operating through Dec. 9 and provide $1.1 billion in long-delayed funding to battle the Zika virus.
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