LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 27 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: * * * - Says, 'Small Businesses are the back-bone of our communities' * * * Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced allocating $3 million to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission's (AEDC) Quick Action Loan Program for small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. These funds will be in addition to the $4 million the Governor directed to the same program. Th  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 27 -- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued the following news release: * * * - Says, 'committed to working with online retail platforms to hold pandemic profiteers accountable' * * * Attorney General Leslie Rutledge sent letters to Amazon, eBay and Walmart which allow third-party sellers to offer consumer goods through online retail platforms. The letter notified the companies' CEOs that Arkansas's price gouging laws automatically went into effect on   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 27 -- Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release on March 26: The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) is submitting a Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration Project ("waiver") to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide support to Arkansans in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Governor Asa Hutchinson announced at a news conference. The waiver will provide $116 million in additional Medicaid funding to su  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 27 -- Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that he has appointed Alan McClain as the state's new insurance commissioner. McClain, who will assume the position on April 3, replaces Allen Kerr, who was appointed to the job in January 2015. Kerr, whose last day is March 27, 2020, resigned to pursue opportunities in the private sector. McClain has served as commissioner of the Arkansas Rehabilitation S  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 26 -- Gov. Asa Hutchinson, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Governor Asa Hutchinson issued the official call to legislators for an Extraordinary Session of the 92nd General Assembly to convene at 1 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, 2020. The official proclamation can be found here (http://free-proxyserver.com/browse.php?u=WxhHatvgwhRPqW5nQH4SEjOboE6kTPLPgX0rZlhISBCd2sLwRSOQ%2Fg%2Fr7Ro%2Bh937Y440XCPGPsJLgN96I9G0ZublkOukao8g8OCAw80iXvfZ8G%2BtDezcUSl4C1xwfUwh  more

FAYETTEVILLE, Arkansas, March 25 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: Sina Dadgar, a biomedical engineering doctoral student, received the Best Paper Award for his research presentation at the annual Photonics West conference organized by the International Society of Optical Engineers. The conference was held in San Francisco from Feb. 1-6 this year. Dadgar's research is focused on the development of noninvasive optical spectroscopy techniques to monito  more

ROGERS, Arkansas, March 27 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: The World Trade Center of Arkansas is working closely with the U.S. Small Business Administration to promote economic resilience and ease concern among small businesses in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The center utilizes the State Trade Expansion Program (STEP) grant, which assists eligible Arkansas small businesses and agricultural producers with export development by reimbursing eligible expenses. Th  more