arkansas

Family Of Three Lives Mortgage-Free By Downsizing To 320 Sq. Ft. Home
Until recently, one Arkansas family had been living well in a spacious 2,000 sq. ft. home. But after realizing that they were paying a mortgage for a house they didn't fully utilize, they decided to downsize... significantly. More »

McDonald's Serves Customer A Used Burger
If car companies and Ikea can make money selling pre-owned products, why not McDonald's? Oh yeah... that would be disgusting. Just ask the Arkansas man who was sold a pre-owned, pre-bitten burger. More »

Top 10 States With Highest Closing Costs
In terms of closing costs, these little transactional costs needed to process the signing of your new home, how does your state stack up? Bankrate did a survey to find out. More »

Southwest Airlines Intercepts Shipment Containing Human Heads
An employee at Southwest Airlines pulled a package from its shipping list because it hadn't been labeled properly. But wait, it gets better. Inside the package was a few dozen human heads and parts of human heads. More »

Teen Files Harassment Charges Against Mom For Facebook Snooping
When you were a teenager, how many times did you wish you could have called the cops on your parents for being too nosy? It may be too late for you to slap some juris prudence on your folks, but a trailblazing teen in Arkansas has filed harassment charges — criminal, not civil — against his mom for hassling him on Facebook. More »

FDA Declares Bisphenol A Safe

—>Bisphenol A, or BPA, is the chemical used in various plastic bottles and can linings that Canada recently banned, consumers in Arkansas, California, and Ohio have filed lawsuits over, and Playtex and Nalgene have stopped using. The fear is that it's toxic—studies on animals in Canada have shown that it's damaging, and some tests in the U.S. suggest it's harmful to humans as well. Critics of the anti-BPA movement point out that the human studies rely on super high dosages that never occur in real life, and that making safety decisions based on the general public's fears isn't exactly scientific.   More »

Arkansas Attorney General To Payday Lenders: Shut Down Or I'll See You In Court

—>On March 18, Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel sent letters to 156 payday lenders, ordering them to stop issuing new loans and void any current and past due loans or face legal action. McDaniel charges that the lenders are violating Arkansas's constitutional prohibition against usurious interest rates.  More »

Man Arrested For Smashing "Dangerous" "Toy Lamp" Outside Walmart

—>Based on an advocacy group's "10 Most Dangerous Toys" list, an Arkansas man became convinced that a Dora the Explorer lamp sold at Walmart posed an imminent electrical shock threat to any children for whom which it was bought, so he conducted his own personal recall...  More »

Auto Shop Owner Flees, Leaving Unfixed Cars, Unpaid Employees In Wake

—>Blaming insurance companies, Fox Collision of Arkansas closed all of a sudden, leaving customer's cars stranded in the middle of repairs, and employees with bounced checks. KTUL tracked the owner, Tod Foxx, down in Colorado, driving a Cadillac Escalade that Hertz has been looking for for 2 weeks. He has a new venture in wealthy ski resort town Aspen, selling leather wraps and blankets. In a letter, Fox asked employees to be patient as he tried to raise money to take care of the final week's payroll. Former employees have opted instead to file a class action lawsuit.  More »

Attention AT&T: Don't Lie About "Massive Outages," Reporters Have Phones Too

—>When Stephanie the AT&T "escalation affairs administrator" lied to Jan about why her phone couldn't be repaired for several days, she probably didn't know what Jan did for a living.  More »

Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Condom in Sight

This Arkansas mayor's love story is a heartwarming tale, similar to Like Water for Chocolate.   More »