Shelter to Offer Free Spay, Neuter Services
The Animal Shelter will offer free spay and neuter services three days in February and March, according to a city news release.
View ArticleCouncil to Carry Over $48 Million
Plans for a range of city projects can continue if aldermen agree Tuesday to add $48.1 million to the city’s $134.9 million budget for 2013.
View ArticleSex Offender Faces New Charge
A Level 4 sex offender was arrested Monday in connection with sexually assaulting a woman.
View ArticleMetal Recycler Appeals Permit Denial
Benton County is facing an appeal of the decision by the Planning Board denying a request to allow a metal recycling business operate at a site near Gentry.
View ArticleBill limits liability for small airstrips
Bob Shingledecker spent most of his adult career immersed in technology — first as an aircraft mechanic for the U.S. Air Force, then as an automotive technology instructor. When he took his first...
View ArticleFour plead not guilty to deadly beating
Four Prairie Grove residents facing murder charges related to the death of 48-year-old Ronnie Lee Bradley pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Washington County Circuit Court. Anthony Allen Swinford, 35,...
View ArticlePolice arrest teen in Gentry armed robbery
Police arrested a 13-year-old boy Tuesday afternoon in connection with an armed robbery at the Phillips 66 Station, according to a news release from the Gentry Police Department.
View ArticleAppeal Set For Recycling Site
Benton County’s justices of the peace will be asked to sit in judgment of a decision by the county’s Planning Board to block a metal recycling business from operating near Gentry. Tom Smith, owner of...
View ArticleJobless Numbers Increase
Local unemployment ticked above 5 percent in December but remains below 2011 numbers. Northwest Arkansas’ unemployment rate last month was 5.1 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics....
View ArticleOzark River Plan Hits Rough Water
From the south-facing windows of the Franklin County Courthouse, the residents of Ozark can easily view a large bend in the Arkansas River.
View ArticleInmate appeals court for a new sentence
A Polk County man convicted of kidnapping and murdering his 12-year-old niece in 1999 should be resentenced because the original jury was improperly influenced by vivid testimony from the girl’s family...
View ArticleLeaders give views on guns in church
Several church leaders testified Thursday at the House Judiciary Committee, supporting or opposing a bill which would allow churches to permit concealed handguns in their buildings.
View ArticleEarly release rules decided
Almost eight years after the state Legislature passed a law allowing for the early release of state prison inmates to halfway houses, a state board on Thursday approved rules governing the releases.
View ArticleHomelessness hard to gauge
Vicki White’s 19-year-old daughter, Samantha, is pregnant with twins. If the babies’ daddy, James Pool, 28, doesn’t find a job soon, the pair could be moving into Vicki White’s two-bedroom apartment...
View ArticleFiring due to one student’s excess aid, UCA says
A University of Central Arkansas financial aid employee fired this week acted irresponsibly when he kept authorizing aid for a student who has since become a key witness in the criminal case against...
View ArticleThe state/region in brief
Toddler drowns in family pool JONESBORO — Authorities say an 18-month-old girl has died after falling into her family’s swimming pool.
View ArticleFort Smith man faces trafficking charges
Tulsa police arrested a Fort Smith man and woman who are suspected of taking women from Arkansas and forcing them into prostitution.
View ArticleGroups threaten to sue over endangered species
Two conservation groups have notified two federal agencies that they plan to sue for failure to protect the Ozark hellbender and four other species in the Mark Twain National Forest in southeast Missouri.
View ArticleSupreme Court
The Arkansas Supreme Court released opinions Thursday. The court’s ruling and the names of the cases are reprinted here. The full opinions and other court proceedings, including per curiam decisions,...
View ArticleNW Arkansas today
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We really want to focus on the service gaps. Where are the gaps in terms of what people need?” Kevin Fitzpatrick, director of the University of Arkansas’ Community and Family...
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