http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/news.aspStories from Arkansasbusiness.com's popular daily e-newsletter and Today's Top Stories section. Includes the latest breaking business news.Copyright 2008 Arkansas Business Limited Partnership. All rights reserved.http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106337.54928.118466http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106337.54928.118466Former Equity Media president and CEO to receive $1.3 million, and the company sells assets and stock warrants to raise $37.5 million.7/3/2008 2:35:03 PMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106336.54928.118465http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106336.54928.118465Your ArkansasSports360.com 2008 High School & College Preview magazine is ready for its debut this Monday, July 7.7/3/2008 11:15:00 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106334.54928.118463http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106334.54928.118463Oil prices briefly soared to a record near $146 a barrel Thursday, then eased when the European Central Bank did not signal more rate hikes and a report showed unemployment in the United States has continued to climb.7/3/2008 10:44:04 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106333.54928.118462http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106333.54928.118462Stocks fluctuate in volatile trading after a private research group reports that the nation's services sector contracted last month and as investors absorb a mostly tame report on employment.7/3/2008 10:43:04 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106332.54928.118461http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106332.54928.118461Family Dollar Stores of Arkansas Inc. will pay $25,000 and provide other relief as a result of a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.7/3/2008 10:41:04 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106325.54928.118454http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106325.54928.118454Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy's fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.7/3/2008 7:51:01 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106327.54928.118456http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106327.54928.118456University of Central Arkansas President Lu Hardin said Wednesday that his school's trustees should better explain votes they take on salary matters, after they approved a promised $300,000 pay package.7/3/2008 7:50:04 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106326.54928.118455http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106326.54928.118455Notes originally written by Antonin Dvorak, Richard Wagner and John Williams will sound around Arkansas next spring when the state serves as a weeklong home for the National Symphony Orchestra.7/3/2008 7:50:01 AMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106289.54928.118418http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106289.54928.118418Wall Street resumed its sell-off Wednesday after oil hit a new record and a bearish analyst report renewed concerns that General Motors Corp. could run out of cash.7/2/2008 4:14:00 PMhttp://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106307.54928.118436http://www.arkansasbusiness.com/article.aspx?aid=106307.54928.118436Arkansas rice farmers file a class-action suit against Riceland Foods Inc. seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the tainted rice that entered the 2006 rice crop.7/2/2008 2:12:00 PM