Residents Attend Transit Forum
About 50 people came to a League of Women Voters forum Thursday at the Fayetteville Public Library to hear Mayor Lioneld Jordan and Ozark Regional Transit officials talk about plans for expanded public...
View ArticleHead Start Trims School Year
The Head Start program and six of its centers in Washington County plan to close 13 days earlier than usual this spring because of federal budget cuts.
View ArticleFather Arrested In Death Of Two Sons
A 24-year-old father faces murder charges after investigators said he shook his two sons to death.
View ArticleMan Faces Child Porn Charges
A Prairie Grove man faces felony charges in connection with child pornography.
View ArticleWoman Gets 12 Years For Shaking Baby
A Rogers woman was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday morning for shaking and injuring her then 4-month-old son.
View ArticleLowell Woman Gets Eight Years
A Lowell woman was sentenced to eight years in prison for putting floor polisher in her mother’s food.
View ArticleJudge’s Ruling Sends Woman To State Hospital
A circuit judge found a Rogers woman accused of burning her son with a hot spoon isn’t competent to stand trial.
View ArticlePaneitz Reflects On Time At College
Becky Paneitz, NorthWest Arkansas Community College president, rarely misses an opportunity to raise money for the school.
View ArticlePancake Breakfast Set For Saturday
The Centerton Area Chamber of Commerce and the city will host a pancake breakfast at City Hall, 290 Main St., from 8 to 11 a.m.
View ArticleEmergency Service Members Recognized
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office honored Deputy Jason Wood and Sgt. Lynn Hahn Thursday for their roles in saving a woman who was drowning in Beaver Lake last year.
View ArticleUAMS students meet their residency match
The envelope Julie Duke held in her hands Friday would reveal the next five years of her life.
View ArticlePanel tackles curbs to information law
A state senator said Friday that “abuse” of information obtained through Arkansas’ Freedom of Information Act justifies creating exemptions to what’s publicly accessible under the law.
View ArticleMercy’s new chopper takes off
About a minute after 1 p.m. Friday, pilot Dave Wilminko tested the headset microphone system to ensure his two passengers could hear him, and the Medflight helicopter readied for takeoff.
View ArticleTimex Corp. pays airport $2.5 million
The Timex Corp. has paid the state’s largest airport more than $2.5 million to settle a dispute over contamination of a 9-acre site on the airport property that once was used to manufacture the...
View ArticleThe state/region in brief
Later hearing set in death of girl, 1 NEWPORT — A court hearing has been delayed for a Newport man accused in the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old girl in northeastern Arkansas.
View ArticleWar Eagle opens program for lower-income students
Administrators with Camp War Eagle have initiated a pilot after-school program targeted at children from low-income families.
View ArticleGetting it straight
The Democrat-Gazette wants its news reports to be fair and accurate. We correct all errors of fact. If you know of an error, write: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette SUSAN SCANTLIN Editor, Northwest Arkansas...
View ArticleSheriff’s wife pleads innocent to perjury
A defense attorney for Johnson County sheriff ’s Deputy Glenda Morrison entered an innocent plea on her behalf Friday to charges of perjury.
View ArticleNW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Studies suggest physicians tend to stay where they do their residencies. In rural areas, you need family physicians.There are rural areas of Arkansas that don’t have physicians.”...
View ArticleCommittee Eyes Street Projects
Aldermen are nearing a decision on how to reallocate money in the city's Transportation Improvement Bond Program.
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