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2+ hour, 36+ min ago (735+ words) Welcome to The State AG Dispatch, DLA Piper's State Attorneys General (AG) quarterly update. Our aim is to highlight regulatory trends and enforcement actions from state AGs across the United States. Focusing on the most significant developments, we provide key updates in: These actions may suggest that state AGs are not only following, but actively shaping the national antitrust agenda, particularly in sectors where federal enforcement may be limited. For more information on these developments, read DLA Piper's Inside Competition newsletter. More assertive, creative, and coordinated enforcement may be expected. Companies are encouraged to review competitive practices, merger strategies, and public disclosures for compliance with both federal and state antitrust laws. The risk of parallel investigations and litigation is rising, increasing the complexity and potential cost of resolving antitrust disputes. The DOJ has also recently warned that ESG collaborations and…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago (492+ words) All eyes are turning toward the University of Wyoming, which recently received nearly $1 million in federal dollars to create Second Amendment curriculum for high school students that "highlights ongoing debates about firearms education in American schools and the federal government's role in shaping how constitutional issues are taught," according to a UW press release. The U.S. Department of Education awarded a $908,991 grant to the college this year to develop what university officials have promised would be "historically grounded school curriculum on the Second Amendment." The money came from more than $137 million in federal funds that were redirected by President Donald L. Trump. The University of Wyoming hosts the nationally known Firearm Research Center, which is one of very few college programs that do not add a leftist "gun-violence" perspective to everything they study and teach. Instead, the FRC's mission is to "foster…...

3+ hour, 32+ min ago (656+ words) As former conference foes for decades, there is a lot of history between Texas Tech and Arkansas. But the freshest memories are prominent for both programs as they get set to collide in an enticing neutral-site game this weekend. The 16th-ranked Red Raiders (7-2) and No. 17 Razorbacks (7-2) tangle on Saturday at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, nine months after a memorable showdown in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. Texas Tech walked off the floor in San Francisco that night with an 85-83 victory after erasing a 16-point second-half deficit that ended Arkansas' bid for a deep Cinderella run. The Razorbacks insisted this week that revenge is their only motivation, but they also remember that night and the gut-wrenching feelings that followed. "It's a regular game for us," Arkansas guard Karter Knox said. He scored 20 points vs. the Red Raiders in the last…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago (1008+ words) Both the length and intensity of drought can work together to have cumulative, negative effects on grasslands, according to a new global study published in Science. An international group of scientists ran the same drought study across six continents, including sites in Kansas, Minnesota, Oklahoma and Texas. They imposed extreme drought conditions for four years in a row to find out what these conditions do to a diverse array of grasslands and shrublands. "With changing climate, particularly atmospheric warming, we're expecting to see more extreme events such as droughts, but those events are likely to be longer in duration," said Colorado State University Professor Melinda Smith, who co-led the study and worked on multiple sites, including one near Manhattan, Kansas. Smith and her team brought together a network of scientists from around the world to study drought, using a research…...

7+ hour, 54+ min ago (770+ words) Arkansas PBS, the statewide network operated by the Arkansas Educational Television Commission, announced Thursday that it will drop PBS programming and change its name to Arkansas TV. The current PBS contract ends June 30, 2026, and local viewers will start seeing the branding change across platforms over the next several months. Starting next summer, the organization plans to deliver "several new local shows, as well as favorites from the last 60 years," according to a news release. For the time being, the broadcast lineup will change little, according to the release. Arkansas TV will be the third public television station or network to formally cut ties with PBS, following WEIU-TV in Charleston, Ill., and WSRE in Pensacola, Fla. The decision follows the organization's loss of approximately $2.5 million to its annual budget due to the rescission of federal funding by Congress. In the release, Arkansas…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago (188+ words) From the roaring crowd to squeaking sneakers on the hardwood, high school basketball is a beloved American pastime. Now, the sport is etched into the ethos of the American high school. Almost 900,000 student athletes play on their high school basketball team, according to 2024-25 school year data compiled by the National Federation of State High School Associations. That figure represents over 18,000 schools competing across all 50 states, grinding out games in high school gyms on dark winter nights. Stacker compiled a list of the highest rated Class of 2026 basketball recruits from Arkansas using data from 247Sports. Athletes are ranked by their 247Sports Composite ranking. - National rank: #94 (4 stars)- Position rank: #36- College: Missouri- Offers: Missouri, Oklahoma State, Arkansas State, Saint Louis, Wake Forest- High school: The New School (Fayetteville, AR) - National rank: #91 (4 stars)- Position rank: #13- College: Nebraska- Offers: Nebraska, TCU, East Carolina, Texas State, Arkansas- High…...

8+ hour, 52+ min ago (877+ words) The Arkansas PBS Commission and executive leadership meet on December 11, 2025. The governing board of the educational television network formerly known as Arkansas PBS voted Thursday, December 11, 2025 to separate the agency, rebranded as Arkansas TV, from the national network. Six of the eight members of the Arkansas PBS commission voted to notify the federal Public Broadcasting Service of its intent to disaffiliate effective July 1, 2026, the start of the state's 2027 fiscal year. The commission voted in June to renew its membership for the current fiscal year after considering disaffiliation to save the agency $2.3 million in national dues. The network lost $2.5 million in programming and operational funds after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting lost federal funding this summer. CPB announced in August that it would start the process of shutting down, to be complete in January. Federal funds are the primary source of…...

9+ hour, 16+ min ago (729+ words) Funeral details have been released IRELAND'S first recipient of a simultaneous kidney'pancreas transplant has passed away, with tributes pouring in for the fierce woman. Mairead Ward died suddenly on December 8, aged 68, in Killulagh, Co Westmeath. She received the then-never-before-seen operation on New Year's Eve, 1991. Mairead was 34 at the time of the procedure, which was performed by pioneering surgeon Dr David Hickey and his team at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. The surgery broke ground and launched a new era for transplant medicine in Ireland. And Mairead went on to become one of the longest surviving kidney'pancreas transplant recipients in the world. Homicide investigation launched into death of Daniel Aruebose as DNA matches Infant boy dies after two-car crash in Louth after 3 others taken to hospital The funeral details for the pioneering woman have been released as tributes have been paid. The…...

9+ hour, 45+ min ago (751+ words) Three local business leaders will be honored at the joint 2026 annual luncheon meeting of Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) and the Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) on March 11 at the Georgia Aquarium. Every year, CAP/ADID pays tribute to people and institutions that have had a major impact on Downtown. The prestigious Dan & Tally Sweat Award will be given to Billy Payne, the attorney who led the efforts to bring the 1996 Summer Olympic Games to Atlanta. The award was named after the late Dan Sweat, a longtime president of CAP, and his widow, Tally Sweat. The Atlanta Sports Council, and its president Dan Corso, will receive the Marcus Downtown Economic Impact Award. And the Warner Bros. Discovery Community Leadership Award will go to Dorthey Hurst, the head of'marketing and communications for the Atlanta Municipal Market. Central Atlanta Progress is honoring'William Porter…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago (466+ words) Arkansas PBS on Thursday severed ties with the PBS network, a move that will take shows like "Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood" and "Antiques Roadshow" off the air for tens of thousands of viewers. The decision makes Arkansas PBS the first statewide public TV system to break from PBS since Congress voted this summer to strip $500 million in annual funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which backs TV and radio stations across the United States. The loss of federal funding has put enormous pressure on the public media system, sending stations scrambling for ways to fill big budget gaps. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, which oversees public television in the state, voted 6 to 2 to disaffiliate with PBS, citing concerns about the cost of membership since the recent loss of federal funding. Arkansas PBS is also changing its name to Arkansas TV....