Farmington News

Volunteer firefighters in Washington County do more than put out fires. They also respond to car accidents, medical calls and tactical rescues, all while holding down separate fulltime jobs to support their families.

An internal investigation conducted by the Fayetteville Police Department has determined that two officers acted in accordance with departmental policy when a bullet fired from one of their weapons inadvertently struck a homicide victim in the head last week.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Flowers sit outside of Jill Ulmer's apartment, 2182 N. Leverett Ave.

Fayetteville police officers inadvertently shot a pregnant woman while trying to stop her ex-boyfriend from fatally stabbing her in her apartment Friday.

ANDY SHUPE Northwest Arkansas Times Crime scene tape marks the entrance of Apartment 15 in the Rasberry Place Apartments, located at 2182 N. Leverett Ave.

A 41-year-old Farmington man was arrested Friday night on a probable charge of murder in the second degree for allegedly stabbing and killing his ex-girlfriend in her apartment.

A sex offender facing a 60-year prison sentence from Benton County agreed to serve three more years for violating the terms of his probation in Washington County.

Members of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District Executive Committee gave their stamp of approval Tuesday to a job description for the next director of the organization.

Last year, the Fayetteville Board of Education adopted a restrictive approach to transfers, rejecting most requests from students to attend schools in other districts.

Emily Holland is designing a model of her "dream room" using spaghetti, Elmer's glue and foamcore board.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Kathy Simmons is the Gifted and Talented coordinator for Farmington Public Schools.

BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times Above: Billy Ammons, regional business manager for OMI, walks through the West Side Wastewater Treatment Plant's clarification tanks Wednesday as he reflects on the past year that the plant has been open.

Graduating high school can actually be a pretty nerve racking experience. "I just don't want to fall," said graduate Ryan Marcoux.

Steven Boyd Bradshaw, 39, of 155 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Fayetteville was arrested Monday on a felony charge of first-degree criminal mischief.

Members of the personnel/finance committee of the Boston Mountain Solid Waste District on Tuesday opted to have a Fayetteville city official look over a draft of a job description for a new director.

BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times A Washington County K-9 officer leads his dog to a Dodge Dakota pickup Monday evening along Washington County 45 near Washington County 102 after a man led an Elkins police officer on a pursuit and escaped on foot.

It took jurors about 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon to find a Farmington man guilty of possessing child pornography.

BROOKE McNEELY Northwest Arkansas Times Jaimus Ready, 6, left, cuts out slips of papers with soldiers' names on them under the supervision of his grandfather, Paul Ready, Tuesday at their home on the outskirts of Prairie Grove.

Farmington police chased and searched for a bear in the city limits Monday morning until it made its way north and back into the country.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Bill Shaffer with American Legion Post 146 in Prairie Grove salutes as Fran Blakeley covers her heart Saturday during the playing of taps after the presentation of the Farmington Veterans Memorial at the Farmington Senior Center.