Harrison- North Arkansas College announces the Dean’s list for the Fall 2021 semester. Students must achieve a 3.70-4.00 grade point average to be included on the Dean’s list. Students listed on the Dean’s list are enrolled full time with at least 12 current hours.
Little Rock- Attorney General Leslie Rutledge announced today that Navient, known as one of the nation’s largest student loan servicers, will provide relief totaling $1.85 billion to resolve allegations of widespread unfair and deceptive student loan servicing practices and abuses in originating predatory student loans. As part of the settlement, 290 eligible Arkansas consumers will receive a total of almost $7 million in loan forgiveness. This settlement, joined by a coalition of 39 attorneys general, resolves claims that since 2009, despite representing that it would help borrowers find the best repayment options for them, Navient steered struggling student loan borrowers into costly long-term forbearances instead of counseling them about the benefits of more affordable income-driven repayment plans.
The Arkansas Medal of Honor Commission is scheduled to meet Monday, January 24, 2022, 10:30 a.m. Committee Room 171, 1st floor, Arkansas State Capitol.
LITTLE ROCK – The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will accept applications January 15-February 15 from hunters who want to hunt on many wildlife management areas during the 2022 Arkansas turkey season.
Little Rock- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge issued a statement following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay the vaccine mandate issued by The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) which required businesses with over 100 employees to mandate vaccines for all employees. This mandate was scheduled to go into effect, January 10, 2022.
Angela Goodman announces candidacy in the run for Marion County Tax Collector. Angela Goodman has been employed as a Deputy Clerk in the Tax Collector’s office since 2016.
From the entertainment industry to working on organs and calliopes, Bill Klinger has kept a busy life. He officially retired in the fall of 2005, before that he spent his adult career working in the entertainment industry in the mechanical and physical special effects, such as rain, snow, wind, fire, explosions, any movement caused other than what would normally come from an actor. The movies which first gave him notoriety were Back to the Future and Return of the Jedi.
Volt Industrial Plastics announced a 36,000 square foot expansion on January 8, 2022, during the groundbreaking press conference at VIP in Yellville. The expansion will boost local economy, improve square footage and bring new jobs to the area.
Fayetteville- Kaylie Slaughter, APRN, is now providing care for patients at the Washington Regional General Surgery Clinic where she works alongside Jeffrey Bell, MD, Jon Berry, MD, Gareth Eck, MD, Brian Pottorf, MD, Stephen Wood, MD, and Brittany Huls, APRN. Slaughter earned a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Walden University. She has more than nine years’ experience as a registered nurse and most recently worked as an RN at the Washington Regional General Surgery Clinic.
The issue of bill rates paid by medical centers to travel nurse companies was a topic of interest when the Arkansas Legislature held a joint committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 3 between the House and Senate committees on public health, welfare, and labor. House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee Chairman Jack Ladyman, R-Jonesboro began the meeting by explaining that he and other legislators had received calls about the state’s traveling nurse programs related to pay and travel. He requested information to assist legislators in understanding the program. Present to explain the traveling nursing program were Trenda Ray, PhD., RN, Chief Nursing Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor at UAMS and Michael Givens, Administrator, St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Jodiane Tritt, executive vice president of the Arkansas Hospital Association was also present. Ray attended via Zoom due to the current Covid-19 surge UAMS is experiencing. She gave an overview of how UAMS had implemented traveling nurses even prior to the pandemic.