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South Arkansas is the greater area in Arkansas that encompasses the lower 15 counties of the state, with Union County being the most predominate. In the 1920s, nationwide attention focused on South Arkansas when the Smackover field was ranked first among the nation's oil fields. For five months in 1925, the 40-square-mile Smackover field was the focal point of one of the wildest mineral booms in North America. Today, south Arkansas's oil fields produce petroleum throughout a 10-county area.
Columbia and Union counties also stretch over one of the largest brine reserves in the world. Bromine is derived from brine, or saltwater, and local companies play an international role in the commercialization of bromine and its many applications.
Articles
News from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Sherwood man charged in 2007 homicide
Mar 17, 2010 7:29 pm
A 21-year-old Sherwood man was arrested today in connection with a 2007 homicide in North Little Rock.
Mar 17, 2010 10:08 am
North Little Rock police arrested a man Tuesday in the death of Salvation Army Major Philip Wise, who was gunned down on Christmas Eve in front of his three young children.
Fire chief gets heat for 3 men on trucks
Mar 17, 2010 10:03 am
Little Rock Fire Chief Gregory Summers is drawing criticism for reassigning firefighters away from the departments two ladder trucks that ran with at least four crewmen, after the city wrote last year...
3 in state care join challenge of foster ban
Mar 17, 2010 9:30 am
Three teenagers in state custody were allowed to join a lawsuit contesting a voter approved law that bars unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children, a Pulaski County Circuit judge ruled on...
Auditors not at fault, says Conway panel
Mar 17, 2010 9:29 am
A more than $990,000 accounting error in the Conway city budget was the result of poor bookkeeping at City Hall, and not a mistake by the company hired to do the citys annual audit two years ago, memb...
Mar 17, 2010 9:27 am
The winning numbers drawn Tuesday night in Mega Millions: 3-22-48-52-56 Mega Ball: 13 Estimated jackpot: $12 million Megaplier: 4
In killers case, stay remains in force
Mar 17, 2010 9:27 am
A federal appeals court refused to lift a stay of execution Tuesday for an Arkansas man who had been scheduled to die Tuesday night for killing a Bald Knob bookkeeper.
Judge dismisses school-choice suit
Mar 17, 2010 9:26 am
A federal judge has refused to weigh in on the constitutionality of the Arkansas School Choice Act, which uses race as a factor in limiting students transfers between districts.
Library in LR prepares to close under tax-repay plan
Mar 17, 2010 9:25 am
Starting April 12, the Aerospace library on Roosevelt Road in Little Rock will be open only three days a week, and by the end of May, the least-used branch of the Central Arkansas Library System will ...
Desegregation hearing turns to Jacksonville
Mar 17, 2010 9:23 am
U.S. District Judge Brian S. Miller delved briefly Tuesday into the issue of Jacksonvilles interest in forming a new public school system that would be independent of the Pulaski County Special School...
