Grants Advance Learning
Teachers are reaching outside school budgets to help bring new ideas to students through grants.
View ArticleArea lotteries
Numbers drawn Saturday: Missouri Lotto 3-16-21-25-27-44 Estimated jackpot: $2.1 million Oklahoma Lotto 4-13-14-16-19 Hot ball: 16 Estimated jackpot: $3.8 million Powerball 11-23-26-46-55 Powerball: 27...
View ArticleRumors abound for another Clinton run in 2016
Hillary Rodham Clinton left the State Department nearly two months ago, but she still needs a staff to keep up with the considerable business of being Hillary Clinton. A half-dozen people now work for...
View ArticleNew Mexico supercomputer decommissioned
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — It’s the end of the line for Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind collection of processors that once reigned as the world’s fastest supercomputer.
View ArticleGrades still high, teacher evaluations queried
Across the country, education advocates and their allies in both parties have revamped the way teachers are graded, abandoning methods under which nearly everyone was deemed satisfactory, even when...
View ArticleOut-of-state job commutes require drive
Mike Swart lives in St. Louis on the weekends, but drives five hours to Bentonville for work every week, typically spending Tuesday through Friday in Benton County.
View ArticleDivorces
BENTON COUNTY The following divorces were recorded in the circuit clerk’s office from March 21-27.
View ArticleNW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “Like any consummate collector,Alice [Walton] wants good value for her money.
View ArticleID thief gets 4 years in prison
A Little Rock woman who admitted using someone else’s identity to obtain a credit card, which she then used to pay a fine to the Clark County District Court clerk, was sentenced Friday to four years in...
View ArticleIn The Ozarks Vernacular
Visitors might not know his name, but Garrett Hunt is the past and the future of the Arts Center of the Ozarks.
View ArticleBuilding Boom
Enrollment growth at the University of Arkansas means there will be thousands of new heads to find pillows for in Fayetteville.
View ArticleVeterans Welcomed Home
When Vietnam War veteran Pete Rathmell returned from war 45 years ago, he remembered people spitting on fellow veterans.
View ArticlePolice Department Earns Accreditation
The Fayetteville Police Department has become the third accredited law enforcement agency in Northwest Arkansas.
View ArticleCounty Spends to Improve Services Reliant on Technology
Washington County officials have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in the past two years to improve technology and make services more efficient.
View ArticleRazorback Road Meeting Set
State highway department officials want to hear what residents have to say about widening Razorback Road from Martin Luther King Boulevard to Maple Street and up the hill to Garland Avenue.
View ArticleRunners In Step For Festival
Seventy-five thousand miles — that will get you three laps around the earth at its equator.
View ArticleChinese Teachers Trade Lessons In County Schools
Three teachers at Benton County schools are instructing students about their homeland’s language and culture while learning a new culture at the same time.
View Article100 Years Of Public Health
A hookworm epidemic started Arkansas’ public health system 100 years ago.
View ArticleOne killed in Fayetteville wreck
A Springdale man was killed Sunday in a single-vehicle wreck in Fayetteville, according to a news release from the Fayetteville Police Department.
View ArticleFormer Bella Vista resident arrested on rape charges
A former Bella Vista resident is being held on rape charges after being extradited from Minnesota, authorities said. Adam Gould, 38, of McGregor, Minn., was extradited from Aitkin County, Minn., where...
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