Routine Traffic Stops Turn Up Weapons in Pulaski County
Local law enforcement on high alert following a string of routine traffic stops where they have encountered people in possession of weapons, illegally. While driving around Pulaski County, Sgt. Matt ...
View ArticleMidwest gets first big snowstorm of warm winter
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- An unusually mild winter finally gave way to the Midwest's first big snowstorm of the season Thursday, blanketing a region unfazed by a white Thanksgiving in a layer of powder ...
View ArticleArkansas Tech Cancels Spring Theater Productions
Arkansas Tech students are heading back to class, but theater majors are not getting the warmest welcome. The school is canceling all of the plays for the Spring 2012 season, including a show that ...
View ArticleDual meet with Texas at Tyson Center
- In the series' third year, the University of Arkansas men's track and field team will host the University of Texas in an indoor dual meet Friday evening at the Randal Tyson Track Center ...
View ArticleSeason continues at Kentucky Invitational
- With one home meet under its belt, the University of Arkansas women's track and field team travels to Lexington, Ky., for its first road event of the season, the Kentucky Invitational. ...
View ArticleArkansas looks to stay perfect at home against LSU
The Razorbacks coach said he would have preferred to win his first road game of the season against the Rebels, but he showed his humorous side while discussing the setback. "I think it was a ...
View ArticleCommittee Recommends Zoning Maps
Approving elementary and middle school rezoning maps is now up to the Bentonville School Board. Curriculum Committee members on Friday approved an elementary school map -- dubbed Version Nine -- ...
View ArticlePower Line Problem Leads To Power Outage
About 18,000 Carroll Electric Cooperative customers lost power Friday morning because a problem outside the company's system, a company spokeswoman ...
View ArticleHiwasse Prefers Gravette Annexation
Hiwasse area residents decided to seek voluntary annexation into Gravette at a meeting of the Hiwasse Community Association on Thursday ...
View ArticlePhoto Session Embarrasses Department
The mayor said he's worried publicity about a commercial photo session of models at a Springdale fire station has tarnished the image of the ...
View ArticleFive Held In Connection With Burglary
Five men were in the Benton County Jail on Friday after authorities said they burglarized Boston Mountain Cycles, 204 W. Walnut St., early Thursday ...
View ArticleJudge checks out arguments on fees
The Carroll County Quorum Court apparently was trying to punish the Eureka Springs Carnegie Public Library when it docked the library's budget for $7,782 in legal fees after the library sued ...
View ArticleBentonville Groups Get Apps, New Website
David Frank Dempsey Matthew Buchanan, 9, uses the Bentonville Public Library's new catalog website Friday in the Children's Library. The library has also made new Android and iPhone ...
View ArticleParolees Jailed After Meth Lab Found
Two men were being held Friday in the Benton County Jail after parole officers found a working methamphetamine lab in their residence, authorities ...
View ArticleThree Jailed In Connection With Growing Marijuana
Two Benton County law enforcement agencies combined to arrest three people in connection with a marijuana-growing operation, authorities said ...
View ArticleSummers Outraises Hester In 2011’s Final Months
Rep. Tim Summers, R-Bentonville, raised $35,075 in campaign contributions in the final three months of 2011, almost double the amount raised in the same period by his Republican state Senate ...
View ArticleTontitown Man Dies When Truck Bed Falls
SANTAQUIN, Utah - A Utah man who won a $380,000 Lamborghini in a convenience store chain's contest crashed the sports car six hours after he got ...
View ArticlePritchard Ends Year With More Cash On Hand Than Woods
Sen. Bill Pritchard, R-Elkins, put $15,000 of his own money into his re-election campaign last month, giving him about $20,000 more in cash on hand than his District 7 opponent, Rep. Jon Woods, ...
View ArticleTwo Sent To Burn Unit
Justin Wedgworth Clemente Rojo with Pruden Restoration cuts a board to close-in a home at 1520 Rogers Ave. in Springdale consumed in a fire early Friday. Two unresponsive victims were pulled from ...
View ArticleMan Pleads Guilty In Brother’s Death
Anthony Reyes Britain Coy Smith of Springdale talks Friday with public defender Leana Houston in Judge William Storey's courtroom at the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. Smith ...
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