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Southern Arkansas
Area Info
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
FEMA plans to waive debts of disaster victims
Feb 8, 2012 10:47 pm
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a plan to waive debts for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters who may have mistakenly received mill...
Arkansas Governor: 15 firefighters to go back to work
Feb 8, 2012 9:54 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe says 15 firefighters with the Arkansas Forestry Commission will be put back to work this month after a shift of money within the states budget.
Blytheville police investigating man's death
Feb 8, 2012 8:39 pm
Blytheville police are investigating a suspected homicide after a man was found dead in a puddle of blood.
Beebe open to one-time money for courts
Feb 8, 2012 7:42 pm
Gov. Mike Beebe says he has an idea on how to use one-time money to keep a fund that pays for many of the states judicial operations solvent, but he wants to see a long-term solution for its funding w...
Student stabbed at Arkansas school expected to recover
Feb 8, 2012 6:27 pm
School officials in Magnolia say a junior high schools metal detectors werent in use this week when a student was stabbed by another student who brought a knife to school.
Three held in battery at Arkansas Tech dorm
Feb 8, 2012 5:39 pm
Three people have been arrested after a purported battery at a dormitory at Arkansas Tech University.
Man accused of threatening sewer workers
Feb 8, 2012 5:09 pm
A Pulaski County man threatened to harm workers fixing a sewer line before barricading himself in his home outside Jacksonville, authorities said.
Bathroom chat leads to struggle, LR man's arrest
Feb 8, 2012 3:52 pm
A conversation overheard in a bathroom stall at a retailer prompted an off-duty sheriff's officer to investigate, leading to the arrest of a Little Rock man .
UAMS getting $440k gift for dental education
Feb 8, 2012 3:34 pm
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences will receive $440,000 from the Delta Dental of Arkansas Foundation Inc. to promote dental health education.
Feb 8, 2012 3:06 pm
The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville is creating regional groups for parents of students so they can meet other parents and cheer on the Razorbacks.
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