Downtown Buzzing
The restaurant at the 21c Museum Hotel is airy and bright with a buzzing energy and conversation-inducing contemporary art, a far cry from the dimly-lit and swanky air one might associate with high-end...
View ArticleOfficial: Consider Vets Home
The state should look at available space in the Fayetteville Veterans Home before going to the expense of building an all-new facility in central Arkansas, lawmakers were told Friday.
View ArticleLeaders Focus On Service
Volunteerism does not just help the community, it builds a strong work force. Almost 200 people learned that message Friday morning during the first of the four-part NWA PerformanceGPA Series.
View ArticleMercy To Receive Walmart Grant
The Walmart Foundation is donating $1 million to Mercy Medical Center in Rogers for its Senior Behavioral Health program, the hospital announced Friday.
View ArticleMan Accused Of Threats Over Phone
A Bella Vista man was arrested Thursday in connection with threats made during a phone conversation with state Sen. Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs.
View ArticleBoard President Resigns
School Board President Travis Riggs has resigned. His last meeting will be in February.
View ArticleMan Found Guilty Of Sexual Assault
A Washington County Circuit Court jury Friday found a Fayetteville man guilty of sexual assault in the second degree, and residential burglary.
View ArticleDivorces
BENTON COUNTY The following divorces were recorded in the circuit clerk’s office from Jan. 17-23.
View ArticleEducation Notebook
School board OKs settlement The North Little Rock School Board voted 6-0 last week to an $87,500 settlement of costs to the monitors of the district’s desegregation efforts in past years.
View ArticleNW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “They figured they could sell a $5 print before they could sell a $100 painting.” Tom Young, librarian and assistant registrar at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, on artists’...
View ArticleEx-Huckabee backer in 2008 race indicted
WA S H I N GTO N — A Florida supporter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s failed 2008 presidential bid has been indicted on federal campaignfinance charges, according to a document that was...
View ArticleParole Board OK with commutation
For at least the 16th time, the Arkansas Parole Board has recommended shortening the life sentence of Shirley Danner, a former prostitute who fatally shot a man in West Memphis and later became the...
View ArticleMan sentenced in child’s rape
A Sherwood man was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for repeatedly raping a 9-year-old girl over a four-year period.
View ArticleNestle’s Jonesboro plant to eliminate 70 jobs
Nestle USA officials told employees Friday at the firm’s Jonesboro facility that operations will be curtailed and 70 full-time positions eliminated.
View ArticleLiterary festival draws poets, novelists, eroticist
Richard Ford and Kevin Brockmeier, novelists with Little Rock connections, will join Oprah Winfrey’s literary darling Ayana Mathis, erotica author Sylvia Day and poet C.D. Wright as “headliners” for...
View ArticleRECORDS: January 27
Benton County Sheriff’s Office -Ryan Dwayne Yant, 35, of 1104 N.E. 3rd St. in Bentonville was arrested on Friday in connection with possession of drug paraphernalia and revoke or suspended sentence or...
View ArticlePUBLIC MEETINGS: January 27
Monday 3 p.m. Fayetteville Town and Gown Advisory Committee — AT&T Conference Room, Genesis Technology Incubator, 700 Research Center Blvd.
View ArticleBIRTHS: January 27
Jenny and Matt Sims of Springdale, a girl, Stellaluna Sky Sims, born Jan. 2, 2013, at Willow Creek Women’s Hospital in Johnson.
View ArticleBuilder Eyes Abshier Heights Property
A developer is trying to give one of Fayetteville’s bald spots a combover.
View ArticleHealth Reform Pushing Premiums Higher
The Legislature will decide if the state extends Medicaid to 250,000 uninsured Arkansans.
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