LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 21 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: * * * - Says, 'Jean Butler was and has always been an active, willing participant in this fraudulent money mule scheme' * * * Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a lawsuit against a Hot Springs woman who facilitated a multi-million dollar international sweepstakes scheme. The complaint alleges that Jean Butler, 73, is funneling fraudulently obtained funds through numerou  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 21 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: * * * - Rutledge says, 'We will always go after those who try to take advantage of our veterans' * * * Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced the filing of a complaint against Candy Kern-Fuller and Howard Sutter, lawyers at UpState Law Group in South Carolina for substantially assisting brokers with the illegal sale of veterans' future pension payments. Kern-Fuller and   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 22 -- Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * - Governor Hutchinson's weekly radio address can be found in MP3 format and downloaded HERE. * * * In the past two years, the number of youths in state custody has declined by nearly thirty percent, and I'd like to discuss some of the changes we have made to achieve that. During my first campaign for governor in 2014, I became concerned about the quality of care at our state's juvenil  more

SPRINGFIELD, Arkansas, Feb. 22 -- Tyson Foods, a producer of chicken, beef and pork, issued the following news release: Les R. Baledge, 62, has been appointed to the board of directors of Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN), company officials announced today. Baledge was executive vice president and general counsel of Tyson Foods from 1999 to 2004. He also practiced corporate and finance law with Kutak Rock and The Rose Law Firm, both located in Little Rock. In addition, he previously served on the boards  more

ARKANSAS CITY, Kansas, Feb. 10 [TNSgrants] -- Cowley College issued the following news release: Cowley College mathematics instructor Brooke Istas was recently awarded a grant for her work on Math Anxiety in adult basic education populations. The Dollar General Literacy Foundation generously sponsors the Coalition on Adult Basic Education National Awards funds. One of those awards is COABE's prestigious Incentive Grant. The COABE Incentive Grant Award is presented to recipients to support acti  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Feb. 20 -- Reed Smith, a law firm, issued the following news release: Reed Smith Energy & Natural Resources partner Colette Honorable has been highlighted in the Edison Electric Institute's annual Trailblazer series in celebration of Black History Month. Honorable served as a commissioner with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from December 2014 to June 2017. She served as chairman of the Arkansas Public Service Commission from January 2011 to January 2015; she  more

SEARCY, Arkansas, Feb. 16 -- Harding University issued the following news: A group of Harding University students has been selected to represent the state of Arkansas in Washington D.C. for the 30th anniversary of the Space Grant Consortium. The students selected, Abby Bankhead, Sidney Brandon, Hannah Smith, Parker Pruitt and Elizabeth Reed, and faculty advisors Dr. Dennis Province and Dr. Cindy White, are part of the Harding University Space Research Team and are one of only 25 groups chosen f  more

CONWAY, Arkansas, Feb. 19 [TNSgrants] -- Hendrix College issued the following news release: Hendrix College Associate Professor of Religious Studies Dr. William M. Gorvine has been selected as a 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. Scholar. He will use the funding to explore the relationship between traditional Buddhist practices and secular training in mindfulness and compassion. Gorvine's project will have him spending several months in India, working with Tibetan monastic scholars at Menri Monastery, wh  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Feb. 19 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Alabama Birmingham campus issued the following news: People who spent all of their childhood and early adulthood in the Stroke Belt are more likely to develop cognitive impairment later in life compared to those who did not, according to a new study led by researchers at the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The study, which was presented at the American Stroke Association's International S  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 19 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: The University of Arkansas has established a new research center -- the Arkansas Humanities Center -- and named new leadership and steering committee members for the center. The center will support faculty research in the humanities disciplines of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences -- communication, English, history, journalism, philosophy, and world languages, literatures and cultures.   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 21 [TNSgrants] -- The University of Arkansas Little Rock campus issued the following news: The Center for Arkansas History and Culture at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received $20,360 to digitize and make searchable issues of Oxford American, a quarterly literary publication based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that showcases the best in southern writing. The center will digitize 106 issues of the publication from spring 1992 to fall 2019. Additionally,   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 22 -- The University of Arkansas Little Rock campus issued the following news on Feb. 21: The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of Arkansas has donated $30,000 to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to establish a fund to support the Building Information Modeling (BIM) Lab for construction management and engineering students. "In the 21st century design workplace, contractors, architects, and engineers increasingly use building information modeling to coll  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 21 -- The University of Arkansas's School of Medical Sciences issued the following news release: A group to help children ages 6-12 better cope with their parent's cancer diagnosis is set to begin March 31 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). CLIMB, which stands for Children's Lives Include Moments of Bravery, will be offered from 5-7 p.m. Tuesdays from March 31-May 5 at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute. There is no cost to pa  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, Feb. 19 [TNSgrants] -- The University of Arkansas's School of Medical Sciences issued the following news release: The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences recently received $2.3 million from the Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) to compensate facilities across the state providing opioid use disorder patients with medication-assisted treatment. The money will allow medical providers to offer treatment for opioid use disorder to patients without insurance   more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 21 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news on Feb. 19: Robert McCarter will present a lecture at 4 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series. McCarter, a practicing architect, author and educator, is the Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual   more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 21 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news on Feb. 19: Kevin Brady, an associate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, has a newly released book helping educators, parents and others who work closely with children and youth with disabilities navigate the myriad and complexity of legal issues surrounding special education. Even though more than half of today's students wi  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 19 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: David Sweere will present a lecture titled "An Emotional Reconstructive Architecture" at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250, of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus, as the inaugural Aydelott Travel Grant Lecturer in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Sweere, a fifth-year architecture student in the school, is the 2019 recipient of the Ay  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 21 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from a 28,500-year-old fossil site in the Czech Republic provides supporting evidence for two groups of canids - one dog-like and the other wolf-like - with differing diets, which is consistent with the early domestication of dogs. The study, published in the Journal of Archaeolgical Science, was co-directed by Peter Ungar, Distinguished Professor of a  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 21 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: The University of Arkansas School of Law Women's Law Student Association, known as WLSA to law school students and alumni, will honor Karen Roberts, J.D.'95, and Christy Jones, B.A.'74, J.D.'77, with the Gayle Pettus Pontz Award. The legal and campus communities are invited to join the WLSA and the School of Law for a celebratory reception at 5 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at Fresco Cafe and Pub on Center Street  more

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas, Feb. 19 -- Walmart issued the following news release: The Board of Directors of Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) approved an annual cash dividend for fiscal year 2021 of $2.16 per share, an increase of approximately 2 percent from the $2.12 per share paid for the last fiscal year. The fiscal year 2021 annual dividend of $2.16 per share will be paid in four quarterly installments of $0.54 per share, according to the following record and payable dates: See table here (https://corp  more