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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
Panel combines complaints against suspended judge
Mar 19, 2010 6:22 pm
The panel that disciplines judges has combined allegations against a judge who has already been suspended from his job but is on the ballot in an attempt to regain his seat.
U.S. to inspect 2 state-run units
Mar 19, 2010 10:18 am
The U.S. Department of Justice will inspect two residential facilities for the developmentally disabled next week, marking the first major step in the agencys investigation of state-run human-developm...
Mother pleads innocent in two childrens deaths
Mar 19, 2010 10:17 am
A south Arkansas mother accused of smothering her two young children last year pleaded innocent to capital-murder charges Thursday.
Mar 19, 2010 10:07 am
Four years of hard work, struggle and heartbreak culminated with much-anticipated news Thursday for University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences senior Yulanda Harrison.
LR college plans $18 million in renewal work
Mar 19, 2010 8:41 am
Arkansas Baptist College plans to spend $18 million to continue the revitalization of a campus and community blighted by poverty and crime in recent years, officials said Thursday.
Proctor write-in bid filed, as is new suit
Mar 19, 2010 8:38 am
Two weeks after a federal judge rebuffed Willard Proctor Jr.s challenge to the state law that bars him from seeking re-election, the 47-yearold deposed Pulaski County circuit judge is contesting the l...
Innocent, says suspect in Christmas Eve killing
Mar 19, 2010 8:35 am
Watching her shackled son on a television monitor in North Little Rock District Court on Thursday, Angela Fitzpatrick shook her head, disbelievingly as Judge Jim Hamilton read the charges against him:...
Hearings focus put on school buildings
Mar 19, 2010 8:31 am
A grandmother, a local NAACP officer and two desegregation monitors testified Thursday about the condition of school buildings and the Pulaski County Special School Districts adherence to its desegreg...
LR forum told: No easy road for schools
Mar 19, 2010 8:29 am
Adopting an overhaulminded strategic plan is a painful but necessary step to increase student achievement in the struggling Little Rock School District, one of the plans authors said Thursday.
Mar 19, 2010 7:48 am
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