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Coming off its best year ever, recession-proof America's Car-Mart Inc. easily beat Wall Street profit expectations on Thursday.

Arkansas’ 2nd Congressional District is leaning toward Republican candidate Tim Griffin according to a new Talk Business Poll conducted by Talk Business Research and Hendrix College.

Following are recent bankruptcy and incorporation filings from Crawford, Franklin, Logan and Sebastian counties. The information is provided by The Daily Record. a Little Rock-based news and legal information publisher.

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Crawford County

story and photo by Marla Cantrell
mcantrell@thecitywire.com

Beginning Sept. 1, the tiny Crawford County town of Rudy, population 77, will have its own police department.

Mayor Bill Rogers said it’s something he’s wanted for a long time.

story by Gary Brown, president of College Sports Matchups (CSM is a content partner with The City Wire)
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This is one promise a corporation could have been forgiven for breaking.

In December 2009, officials with Benton Harbor, Mich.-based Whirlpool Corp. said the more than 400 jobs created with a second shift of refrigerator production would likely end at the end of summer 2010.

The University of Arkansas System will receive a $102 million grant to expand broadband access in the state, the White House and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today.

The money will be used to enhance two existing broadband networks that serve Arkansas communities. The focus will be improving health care and education.

An expanded electric motor production plant in Searcy is expected to result in 55 new jobs for the northeast Arkansas city.

story by Marla Cantrell
mcantrell@thecitywire.com

In a little less than three weeks Polk County Sheriff Mike Oglesby will travel with his wife to Washington D.C. to be sworn in as the U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas.

District Marshals are political appointees and serve four-year terms, with no limit on terms served.