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Articles in Dec 18, 2006 issue of Arkansas Business

• CEO's financial freefall mirrors Ram Venture's: creditors pursue chief of bankrupt firm, claim financials overstated
  by Mark Friedman
• Carlton Group takes on Signet6: former Carlton-Bates owner, partners apply growth experience
  by James Gordon
• Car lot owners wheeling, dealing
  by George Waldon
• Westward Ho
• Bill dispute
• Fox on the run
• Industrial sale
• Horse trading
• Keep on truckin'?
• Payday lenders redux
• Banishing the bah, humbug
• To catch a thief
• Tales from the shopping front
  by Jeff Hankins
• States' share of stock market value
  by James B. Bell
• Dual deal
  by George Waldon
• Lots transaction
  by George Waldon
• Site sale I
  by George Waldon
• Medsync purchase
  by George Waldon
• Site sale II
  by George Waldon
• Heights home
  by George Waldon
• Jacksonville abode
  by George Waldon
• PV residence
  by George Waldon
• Capitol Lakes loan
  by George Waldon
• Church mortgage
  by George Waldon
• Riverview funding
  by George Waldon
• Cosmetic loan
  by George Waldon
• Lots financing
  by George Waldon
• Convenient funding
  by George Waldon
• Pathfinder note
  by George Waldon
• Windstream to split off yellow pages service
  by James Gordon
• CEO of energy firm sees shale play profits in future
  by Nate Hinkel
• Former Hot Springs man cited in gas well deals
  by Gwen Moritz
• Entergy to convert library into data center for SAIC
  by Lance Turner
• EPA gives ThermoEnergy $1.5m for power plant
  by Lance Turner
• Alltel Plans to withdraw Pacific Exchange listing
• New York firm to design luxury condos at Rogers
  by Lance Turner
• LR employers surveyed; weak job market forecast
  by Nicole Boddington
• 2006 top diversity owned businesses in Arkansas
• W.E. Ayres, 76, the retired chief executive officer of Simmons First National Corp., died Dec. 8 at Pine Bluff
• Clifton Bolin Peck III, 92, who during the 1980s was the largest automobile dealer in the state, died Dec. 7
• Arkansas Heart Hospital ranks among the top 5 percent in the nation for cardiology services and coronary interventional procedures and in the top 10 percent nationally for overall cardiac services, according to a study released by HealthGrades, a health c
• Arkansas ranks sixth in the nation in funding for a comprehensive tobacco prevention program
• Debra Jean Price, 52, has been convicted of conspiracy to commit mortgage loan fraud by a federal court jury in Little Rock
• Carol Rogers and Neil Denman, co-owners of Millennium Payroll & Financial Services LLC of Little Rock, have bought the shares of the company held by its founder, Mark Rogers, who left in November to pursue other business interests, and changed the nam
• The Simon family of Conway—Mike and Mary Jo Simon and their grown sons, Frederic, Matt and Jason, and their families—have been named the 2006 Farm Family of the Year in Arkansas
• Fikes Truck Line of Hope, a flatbed carrier, has opened a new terminal facility at Birmingham, Ala., to better serve existing customers and further develop relationships in the area
• Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance
• Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
• New six-story development to replace home of Mr. Tux
  by Mark Capshaw
• Zion Holdings breaks ground on Timberlake
  by Mark Capshaw
• UAFS gets $1 million for scholarship fund
  by J.R. Ledford
• Alberto-Culver to construct plant, hire 400 in Jonesboro
  by Lance Turner
• Craighead County finishes $7 million landfill project
  by Mark Friedman
• Fire at Dixie Gin causes $1.6 million in damage
  by Mark Friedman
• Farm Bureau tops first list of trade, professional associations
  by Gwen Moritz
• Largest trade & professional associations
• New businesses: a listing of business start-ups in Arkansas
  by Tonya Kron
• Calendar
• Keith Conine has joined BKD LLP in Little Rock as partner
• CPrint, Certified Printers International
• Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food & Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas
• Cathey Sparkman Powers has received the first Magalene McKinnon Ingram Professorship in Geriatric Education at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock
• Donna Rayford has received the 2006 Citizen of the Year-Chapter Award from the Omicron Lambda Lambda Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc
• Kathleen Fairweather has joined Stone Ward in Little Rock as broadcast producer
• Richard K. Howe has joined the American Lung Association of Arkansas' board of directors
• LifeQuest of Arkansas
• Building Owners & Managers Association of Greater Little Rock
• Coldwell Banker Advantage Realty
• Society of Industrial & Office Realtors
• David Crook has earned an Installer II accreditation and certification from the Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association
• Arthur N. Lynch, vice president of sales for ABF Freight System Inc. of Fort Smith, will retire Jan. 31, 2007
• Stock summary
• Home for the holidays
  by Nate Hinkel
• Trophy fish
  by Nate Hinkel
• Sunshine calls
  by Nate Hinkel