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Professor Teams With Elementary School to Build Lego Robots

from:University Of Arkansas

Engineering professor Richard Cassady has formed a LEGO robot-building team at a Springdale Elementary School.

University of Arkansas Press Reissues a Classic Arkansas Ethnography

from:University Of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas Press has reissued Jelly Roll, a classic Arkansas ethnography.

University of Arkansas Waives Senior Citizen Tuition

from:University Of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas is offering free tuition for credit courses to Arkansas residents who are 60 years of age or older.

The King of Retail: New Study Shows Symbiotic Relationship Between Major Retailers and Suppliers

from:University Of Arkansas

A new study has found that the relationship between major retailers and their suppliers is more symbiotic than adversarial, and that collaborating suppliers wield considerable...

Federal judge declares NLR schools unitary

A federal judge has declared the North Little Rock School District substantially desegregated, complying with an appeals court ruling last year that the schools could be released...

New judge assigned to $1M lottery ticket case

A legal battle over a $1 million lottery ticket has been assigned to another Arkansas judge after the previous one stepped down from the case.

NLR police chase vehicle after traffic stop attempt

North Little Rock police pursued a vehicle in a car chase this afternoon, police say

FHS debate teacher sues over demand for anger management classes

A Fayetteville High School teacher sued the school district Tuesday claiming breach of contract because administrators want him to take anger management classes.

Fayetteville schedules meetings on grade configuration

The Fayetteville School District has scheduled five meetings for public feedback on the administration's plans to reconfigure grades in 2015.

SUV flips off I-430 in LR

There is a single-vehicle accident at I-430 and Rodney Parham.

Judges won't block state primary certification

A federal court panel on Tuesday refused to block the certification of an east Arkansas state Senate primary while they consider a lawmaker’s complaint that his district was...

Gentry Man Arrested for Shipping Pot from Oregon

A Gentry man has been arrested for purchasing marijuana in Oregon and having it shipped to Arkansas, according to a news release from the Benton County Sheriff’s Office.

Rounds of thunderstorms to move across state

Thunderstorms will move across the state during the next few days, according to a report from John Robinson, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Three Wounded in Monday Shooting

Police are investigating a shooting which involved three men who sustained gunshot wounds to the head in the early morning hours of Memorial Day, according to a Police Department...

Group: Arkansas Unfriendly For Cycling

The League of American Bicyclists released its annual rankings of bicycle-friendly states last week, and it was bad news for Arkansas.

District Eyes New System

School board members will likely determine the configuration of middle-level education in Fayetteville next month but an answer about attendance zones for those schools could be...

Hundreds Honor Veterans

The warm wind Monday morning kept American flags waving to the north as hundreds of people gathered under the main flagpole at the Fayetteville National Cemetery to honor the...

Garbage Rates To Rise

Trash rates in the city will go up in June, because automatic annual raises were built into the contract with Waste Management.

Walmart Meetings Grow

Walmart founder Sam Walton opened the doors of the first Walmart store 50 years ago, but he and his wife, Helen, set another tradition in motion several years later when they...

RECORDS

Records for Northwest Arkansas for May 29, 2012.

Remembering The Fallen

Fallen soldiers were memorialized and prayers offered for their families during the 24th annual Memorial Day ceremony at Bella Vista Memorial Garden Cemetery.

Missouri Man Dies in Motorcycle Crash

A Missouri man died in a motorcycle accident Sunday on Arkansas 59 near Sulphur Springs, according to a report from the Arkansas State Police.

Board Promotes Election

The Bentonville School District millage election is less than a month away, and School Board member Travis Riggs said district officials will use the coming weeks to continue to...

Summer School To Begin

Summer school begins Monday in Rogers and most classes will be held online instead of in the classroom.

U.S. Senate race tops primaries in Texas

Establishment Republicans recently fell to Tea Party members in Indiana and Nebraska. Could the same happen in Texas?

Campaigns mine Internet for votes

Voters who click on President Barack Obama’s campaign website are likely to start seeing display ads promoting his re-election bid on their Facebook pages and other sites...

Marshallese task force examines population, health care

Albious Latior got a taste of what lobbying and crafting public policy is like during a recent conference he attended in Washington.

Airport seen as Delta key to prosperity

The decade-long process of developing a new airport in east Arkansas has been a turbulent ride filled with economic setbacks, internal strife and delays. But the Delta Regional...

Agency to lawyers: Keep investigating

For the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Housing Alliance Board of Commissioners has directed a private attorney to investigate allegations of inappropriate conduct by its...

Arkansans honor fallen soldiers

Gordon Hartley doesn’t like to talk about those he remembers on Memorial Day. It still hurts.

Riverfest ends, then it’s quick to go

Before the sun rose Monday, about 250 volunteers had already put in hours packing up supplies and equipment used for Riverfest.

Start-up slow for donations of cord blood

The Cord Blood Bank of Arkansas has collected only two units of umbilical-cord blood for use in an international donor network in its first year of operation, falling short of...

Majority of state on drought watch

An unusually dry spring and little chance of rain ahead has prompted the National Drought Mitigation Center to forecast drought conditions for most of the state.

Hendrix sets video seats for Chinese

When students in two of Jay McDaniel’s Hendrix College classes gather this fall, they will be joined at times by students in northeast China.

University of Arkansas Honors College Project Selected for Little Rock Film Festival

from:University Of Arkansas

The Children of the Mother Beaver, a meditation on frontier justice in 19th century Arkansas, shot for an honors humanities course at the University of Arkansas, has been selected...

Krusz Selected for Alumni Association Student Leadership Award

from:University Of Arkansas

Rebecca Krusz has been selected as the 2012 Non-Traditional Student Leadership Award recipient by the Arkansas Alumni Association and Off Campus Connections.