Students, Teachers Move Into Elkins High School
“School’s open,” proclaimed Greg Ferus, project manager for Milestone Construction, and with that the Elkins School Board received the official word the new high school is almost completed, nearly two...
View ArticleNWACC Training Facility Taking Shape
The renovation of a facility for the National Child Protection Training Center is on track to be completed by December, with a grand opening expected in early 2014, officials said Tuesday.
View ArticleWashington Regional To Sell Hospital To Library
Proceeds from a $2 million sale of Fayetteville City Hospital property, directly south of the city’s library, will go toward construction of a neuroscience institute at Washington Regional Medical Center.
View ArticleFired Employee Files Grievance
Grant McCracken, who was fired Aug. 15 from his job as road superintendent with the Benton County Road Department, has asked for a hearing to clear his name and overturn his dismissal.
View ArticleLiquor Lawsuits Abound
A flurry of lawsuits in Benton and Pulaski counties accompanied the final week of a 30-day appeal window regarding retail liquor permits issued last month by the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control...
View ArticleBethel Heights Council Upholds Chief’s Firing
Fired police chief Don McKinnon lost his appeal to the City Council on Tuesday, getting two votes of the four he needed for reinstatement.
View ArticleNew Health Coverage Contract Approved
City employees will pay about $1.1 million in combined health insurance premium increases while $500,000 of the city’s taxpayer dollars will cover the remaining price hike in 2014.
View ArticleCar Hit Trees, Retaining Wall In Fatal Accident In Rogers
A police report indicates the Joplin, Mo., man who died in a car accident just off New Hope Road on Aug. 2 traveled nearly 200 feet off the road before hitting a concrete retaining wall.
View ArticleTontitown Council Considers Budget Revisions
Residents will see a jump in the city budget and an employee added if the City Council approves proposed revisions.
View ArticleBenton County Quorum Court Eyes Ambulance Fee
Benton County’s justices of the peace agreed Tuesday to look at imposing a fee for rural ambulance service without first seeking voter approval.
View ArticleBentonville Planning Commission Approves Liquor Store
The Planning Commission issued its first permit for a retail liquor store during Tuesday’s meeting.
View ArticlePolice Investigating Waste Management Fire
Samples from the remains of a fire Saturday at the Waste Management landfill have been sent to the State Crime Laboratory.
View ArticleBoozman: Shutdown Won’t Work
A government shutdown would be more severe and complete in 2013 than in 1995 and would hit a much more fragile economy and wouldn’t stop federal health care reform, U.S. Sen. John Boozman of Rogers...
View ArticleExpansion planned for Rogers New Technology High School
Extended contracts with the construction manager and architect to design a second-phase addition to New Technology High School were approved Tuesday night in by the School Board.
View ArticleAuthorities identify Beaver Lake drowning victim
The Benton County Sheriff's Office has identified Doug Jones, 60, as the man who drowned Tuesday in Beaver Lake.
View ArticleOklahoma man sentenced for Pea Ridge Craiglist robbery
It took a jury less than hour Wednesday morning to find a Vian, Okla. man guilty of robbing a man at gunpoint.
View ArticleAG: Washington County man arrested on rape charge
A Washington County man previously arrested in connection with 30 counts of distribution, possession or viewing of child pornography has been arrested in connection with a rape that happened more than...
View ArticleFayetteville police investigate homicide
Fayetteville police have launched a homicide investigation after finding a dead woman at a house Wednesday, said Sgt. Craig Stout, a police spokesman.
View ArticleFayetteville Library Board Celebrates Potential Sale
Plans to build an 80,000-square-foot expansion of the Fayetteville Public Library will move at a cautious and methodical pace, library officials said Wednesday.
View ArticlePolice Investigate Woman’s Death
Police are investigating the death of a woman found in a house Wednesday afternoon on South College Avenue.
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