PINE BLUFF, Ark. -- J. Thomas May, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Simmons First National Corporation (NASDAQ-GS: SFNC), has announced the substantial completion of the existing stock repurchase program and the adoption by the Board of Directors of a new stock repurchase program. The new program authorizes the repurchase of up to 850,000 shares of Class A common stock or approximately 5 percent of the shares outstanding. The shares are to be purchased from time to time at prevailing market prices, through open market or unsolicited negotiated transactions, depending upon market conditions.

Under the repurchase program, there is no time limit for the stock repurchases, nor is there a minimum number of shares that the Company intends to repurchase. The Company may discontinue purchases at any time that management determines additional purchases are not warranted.

SEARCY, Ark---The Searcy Regional Chamber of Commerce is pleased to present the annual White County Business EXPO on July 31, from 10:30 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. in the Ganus Center at Harding University.  The EXPO is going “Hollywood” this year with a black and white color scheme. Christopher Crane, AEDC Film Commissioner, will speak at the By-Invitation-Only event.  The goal is to give the community insight on how to create a presence with the film commission and to the economic benefit of films to Arkansas.  The event will be held from 10:30 until noon, then the EXPO will open to the public and will remain open until 4:00 p.m.

For more information visit the Searcy Regional Chamber of Commercesf page.

Road Systems Inc. (RSI), a trailer manufacturer and subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW), today announced that it has been honored with the 2011 Plant Safety Award from the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association (TTMA). This is the third time that RSI has received this honor from TTMA; the company was also an award recipient in 2004 and 2010. RSI was presented with the award last week at the TTMA Annual Convention in Tuscan, Ariz. Each year TTMA conducts a plant safety contest to recognize participating plants of TTMA member companies having the best safety record for the previous year.

Specifically, RSI won in the “C” category of the award segmented for plants sized 300,000 man-hours and under.