Mom arrested in sex-abuse case for giving girl phone
Jonesboro police on Friday arrested the mother of a 12-year-old Jonesboro girl whom authorities said had been sexually abused by several adults and four youths numerous times, saying the mother...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “When we do these public meetings, swimming pool and community center are always the two at the top of the list.Those are the two things that almost everybody mentions.There’s not even...
View ArticleCenterton To Host Events Today
The city will host the Main Street Outdoor Market today.
View ArticleEducators: Arts Have Impact On Classroom Performance
Students and teachers said participation in the arts positively impacts classroom performance.
View ArticleProgram Gets Veterans Fishing
Army veteran Chad Rozanski wanted the same thing as the Walmart FLW Tour anglers fishing near him Friday at Beaver Lake.
View ArticleStaff, Students Debate Gun Issue
Students, faculty and staff engaged in a lively debate Friday over whether NorthWest Arkansas Community College employees should be allowed to carry concealed firearms on campus.
View ArticleLittle college finds it needs big money
Oren Paris III, president of Ecclesia College in Springdale, isn’t boastful of his fundraising abilities. He’ll be the first to say that it’s a learning process he feels he’s only just begun.
View ArticleUA tackles questions over online teaching
Ro Di Brezzo can relate to the concerns faculty at the University of Arkansas’ flagship campus have about a proposed online program expansion.
View ArticleRegion’s cattle growers taking stock after dry ’12
This year is make or break for lifelong Adair County, Okla., cattle farmer David Guthrie.
View ArticleDivorces
BENTON COUNTY The following divorces were recorded in the circuit clerk’s office from April 4-10.
View ArticleNOTEWORTHY DEATH
Veteran foreign correspondent For nearly three decades, George McArthur was the quintessential foreign correspondent as he reported from the boulevards of Paris to the sands of the Middle East and...
View Article2 hospitals expect to miss April target
Leaders of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and St. Vincent Health System do not expect to determine by their original April deadline if the two hospitals should agree to combining some...
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’m not about to fight it another year, not with the numbers I’m running.” David Guthrie, Adair County, Okla., cattle farmer, on the dwindling feed supply caused by a drought in the...
View ArticleSexual-assault trial ends with deadlocked LR jury
The sexual-assault trial of a 49-year-old Little Rock man designated by state authorities as a sexually violent predator ended with a hung jury Friday when jurors could not reach a unanimous verdict on...
View ArticleFormer executive pleads guilty to theft of title company’s funds
The former president and principal shareholder of Landmark Closing Co., which operated out of Searcy between 2006 and mid-2009, admitted Friday to a federal judge that she had siphoned more than...
View ArticleMLK letter to be read at Center
Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” will be read aloud at the Clinton Presidential Center on Tuesday as part of a worldwide celebration of the famed civil-rights document.
View ArticleBike Train Set To Roll
Motorists might notice an unusual number of children riding their bikes to school this week.
View ArticleCollege To Show Episode Tuesday
NorthWest Arkansas Community College on Tuesday will show the episode “Collateral Damage” regarding Marshallese health issues from the PBS series “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?”
View ArticleBella Vista Lots Offered In Sale
The Benton County Circuit Clerk plans to offer 44 properties at a judicial sale at 10 a.m. May 10 on the steps of the County Courthouse in Bentonville.
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