Good business banks accounts and a full range of financial tools to help manage the operations of a business are vital factors in the success and growth of Delta companies large and small. In addition to their many offerings to individual account holders, Delta banks provide a wide variety of services designed specifically to meet business needs.

The Board of Directors of Delta Southern Bank is pleased to have been able to help the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center meet the terms of a $2.5 million challenge from Jim Barksdale. Mr. Barksdale had pledged the funds to the B.B. King Museum provided their board of directors raise $500,000 in matching funds.

In its second major energy announcement this year, Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday that it would spend $75 million to help build a synthetic fuels plant to power diesel cars and high performance military jets.

Little Rock (AP) – Congressman John Boozman has nominated six potential candidates as a successor on the federal bench for the late US District Judge George Howard Jr.

In its second major energy announcement this year, Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday that it would spend $75 million to help to power diesel cars and high-performance military jets.

From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers’ incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.

Elaine kindergarten through third grade students recently toured First Bank of the Delta, N.A. located on Cherry St. in Helena.

Clark County voters approved a 0.5-cent sales and use tax for economic development Tuesday. As of 9:15 p.m., complete but unofficial results were 1,755 ballots cast in favor of the measure and 804 votes cast against.

Two years of planning and dreaming brought John King before the Advertising and Planning Commission Tuesday in hopes of netting the needed funding for the courthouse Square Park on Cherry St.

Other cities in Arkansas will have to “measure up” to Arkadelphia if they want to be the next Entrepreneurial Community of the Year.