Mayors Upset With Legislature
Area mayors expressed dissatisfaction with local legislators Thursday, saying they had promoted “unnecessary” bills and failed to safeguard the interests of the cities.
View ArticleProceedings In Davis Case Put On Hold
Proceedings were suspended Thursday in the case of a Bentonville man accused of killing his wife last year.
View ArticlePublic Transit Studied
Northwest Arkansas residents expressed their choices between buses, trains and monorails at a public input meeting Thursday.
View ArticleJoblessness, Labor Force Decline
February unemployment dropped to 5.8 percent in the metropolitan statistical area, but the labor force also declined, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
View ArticleTwo stabbed, four taken into custody
Four people were taken into custody Thursday night in connection with the stabbing of two men at a Springdale E-Z Mart, according to a news release from the Springdale Police Department.
View ArticleScott Bowlin named Har-Ber basketball coach
The search for a boy's basketball coach at Springdale Har-Ber is over.
View ArticleCollege Officials’ Duties Changing
One NorthWest Arkansas Community College administrator’s departure this week is causing three others to assume new duties.
View ArticlePolice: Man Kidnapped Woman
A University of Arkansas pitcher faces felony charges after police said he kidnapped a woman and ripped her hair out with his teeth.
View ArticleThree Arrested In Stabbing Incident
A fight at a convenience store Thursday left two men hospitalized and three people in jail.
View ArticleNew School Expands
The New School, one of Fayettevilles oldest private schools, is writing a new chapter in its history.
View ArticleTweet Prompted Evacuations
University of Arkansas administrators evacuated two architecture studios Friday after a student posted a threatening tweet.
View ArticleUAMS appoints Smith to two posts
Dr. G. Richard Smith will become dean of the College of Medicine and vice chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences after Dr. Debra Fiser returns to a professor role May 1, the...
View ArticleBill setting 25% net for state lottery stalls
A bill requiring that at least 25 percent of the Arkansas lottery’s proceeds go to college scholarships failed to clear the Arkansas House Rules Committee late Friday.
View ArticleEureka water park, market considered
Turning Eureka Springs’ historic high school building into a water park or open-air market were two ideas discussed during a three-day planning session this week.
View ArticleCameras at traffic lights go forward
A bill allowing the state’s largest cities to use cameras to catch motorists running red lights cleared an Arkansas House committee Friday.
View ArticleThe state/region in brief
Pickup, rig crash fatal to firefighter A Pine Bluff firefighter died early Thursday when his vehicle lost traction on a wet highway, according to a preliminary Arkansas State Police accident report.
View ArticleExxon Mobil says all 10 offers to return spurned by residents
Cleanup crews on guard for cottonmouths and other snakes made progress Friday in removing oil that had flowed into a marsh along Interstate 40, two weeks after an Exxon Mobil pipeline ruptured in a...
View ArticleTeacher collapses at school, later dies
A teacher at Darby Junior High School collapsed at the school Friday morning and later died in a Fort Smith hospital, according to school district Deputy Superintendent Gordon Floyd.
View ArticleNOTEWORTHY DEATH
Comedy pioneer, Emmy-winner Winters Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He...
View ArticleStudent, 23, faces charge over Tweet
A University of Arkansas at Fayetteville architecture student was arrested on a felony terroristic-threatening count Friday afternoon over allegations that he Tweeted an alarming message to his peers,...
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