The Arkansas Department of Transportation asked the state Supreme Court to erase $18 million in attorney fees awarded in a lawsuit that successfully challenged the agency's spending on two major road construction projects, arguing in a brief filed Friday that "winning an illegal exaction lawsuit should not be the equivalent of winning the lottery for the taxpayers' lawyers."
A day after announcing it would retain "Liberty" as part of its proposed name for Memphis' Liberty Bowl Stadium, Pine Bluff-based Simmons Bank said Friday that it was negotiating in partnership with the War Memorial Stadium Commission and the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism to rename the field at the Little Rock stadium Simmons Bank Field.