Man Accused of Assault on Hotel Housekeeper
A Sugarland, Texas, man was arrested Thursday in connection with sexually assaulting a hotel maid last year.
View ArticleCounty Still Gathering Ambulance Information
Benton County is still gathering information on the cost of ambulance service after more than two years of discussion, prompting one county official to question the process.
View ArticleAlcohol Permits Increase in County
The Arkansas Beverage and Control Division has issued 65 retail beer permits to Benton County businesses since the county was voted wet by voters in November.
View ArticleAssociation Can't Agree on Budget Extension
With time running out on its abbreviated budget, the Property Owners Association board couldn’t agree on an extension at a meeting Thursday night.
View ArticleConference Gives Area Leaders A Chance to Dream
Businessmen, educators, city and state officials gathered Friday at the John Q. Hammons Center to look into the future.
View ArticlePolice: Man Stole Beer Van
A man told police he blacked out after drinking too much whiskey Thursday and woke up in a stolen beer delivery van, according to an arrest report.
View ArticleLawmakers Promise to Move Beyond Social Issues
Lawmakers are getting pressure to move beyond social issues such as gun rights and abortion, legislators said at a forum hosted Friday by the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce.
View ArticleUA bassoon professor files suit in dismissal
A tenured music professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville filed a lawsuit Friday against the University of Arkansas System’s president and the University of Arkansas board of trustees,...
View ArticleRussian meteorite gets notice in state
Steve Arnold isn’t going to rush off to Russia to look for pieces of the meteor that exploded over Siberia on Feb. 15.
View ArticleClasses offer dancing with a star
Broadway dance star and Arkansas native Bill Hastings may be 62, but he has the moves and physique of a 22-year-old.
View ArticleTime at music hall to end on high note
The Arkansas Symphony plans some big musical blasts for its final season in Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall before the building is to undergo a two-year overhaul starting in the fall of 2014.
View ArticleHigher Education Notebook
JBU’s Pollard new council chairman John Brown University P resident Chip Pollard was elected chairman of the board of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., earlier...
View ArticleEducation Notebook
10-day timetable estimated for trial The parties in the 30-year-old Pulaski County school desegregation lawsuit anticipate that a federal court trial on the state’s request to be released from the 1989...
View ArticleHeart Disease Does Not Discriminate
Tregg Brown likes to run and he works out six to seven days a week. He eats healthy, is in good physical condition and suffers from heart disease.
View ArticleHealthy And Desirable
Mitch Marshall swears his lunch consists of more than just a big bag of Doritos.
View ArticleNew Tech High On Schedule
Recruitment is ending and plans are progressing for Rogers New Technology High School, a charter school option within the Rogers School District.
View ArticlePreschool Big In Springdale
Kay Dial is glad she went along with her husband’s suggestion to put their son, Gunner, in preschool.
View ArticleWar Eagles May Turn To Small Ball
Rogers Heritage lost only two starters from last years Class 7A state baseball runnerup, but they were significant losses.
View ArticleJudge OKs recording to air in shooting trial
In a 45-minute police recording played Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court, a Little Rock man told detectives that he was so consumed with rage that he went on a three-hour shooting rampage to...
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