Fayetteville News

Several University of Arkansas buildings were evacuated along Dickson Street Wednesday morning after construction crews ruptured a gas line near the Hillside Auditorium, according to a post on the university's official Twitter feed .

Midweek mail call: Bryce from Fayetteville, Ark., wants to know if I think undrafted free agents Kwame Geathers and Byron Jerideau can make the Chargers' 53-man roster.

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A motorcyclist was hospitalized and two people were cited after police say a woman's car collided with a motorcycle in western Fayetteville on Tuesday afternoon.

A meeting of the Fayetteville City Council is set for 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013 inside room 219 of the City Administration Building, located at 113 W. Mountain St. in Fayetteville.

William Fogleman, 11, of Fayetteville watches as one of the many kittens up for adoption at the Washington County Animal Shelter in Fayetteville attacks his shoelace Monday afternoon as he volunteers his time to play with the animals at the shelter.

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A great condo on the 8th floor of The Dickson is available July 1. Thursday is the new Friday, and the place to be is at Rooftop Revival at 21st Amendment.

One of downtown Fayetteville's most used parking lots is being retrofitted to include a bioswale and a row of new shade trees.

Washington County Circuit Judge Bill Storey is running for the open Fayetteville District Court seat, he told 5NEWS on Monday .

Employees and former employees of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs have filed suit in Pulaski County Circuit Court alleging wage and hour violations at the now-closed Little Rock Veterans Home and the incident-plagued Fayetteville Veterans Home.

After more than seven years in the making, plans for a new children's museum near Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art were finally unveiled on Thursday.

At least 47 teams of female aviators are set to touch down this week at the Fayetteville Executive Airport as part of the 2013 Air Race Classic .

A Fayetteville man was arrested early Sunday in connection with throwing his wife into a wall, choking her and threatening her life.

A unique 2,100-mile air race will make a brief stopover in Mountain Home this Tuesday, June 18. Mountain Home will be the first of nine stops during the 37th annual Air Race Classic -the longest-running transcontinental air race featuring female pilots.

If you've ever wondered what would happen if you had a Pussy Riot in an Orthodox Cathedral in Russia, wonder no more! This week Russian parliament passed a law making "offending religious feelings" a crime punishable by a year in prison and up to three years if you desecrate a religious building or artifact.

<![CDATA[Rebecca Kerr Ryan Thurman Jim and Evelyn Kerr of Hampton, New Brunswick, announce the engagement of their daughter Rebecca Kerr, of Fayetteville, AR., to Ryan Thurman of Fayetteville, son of Edna Happ, of Nixa, MO. and Ed Thurman, of Sparta, MO. Rebecca graduated from High School in 2003 from Centre Wellington, in Ontario, and in 2009, she graduated from The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She currently is working on her Ph.D at University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Ryan graduated from Kickapoo in 2000, in 2005 he graduated from University of Arkansas in Conway, and in 2013, from University of Arkansas in Fayetteville with a Ph.D in biochemistry. He currently is doing a fellowship at University of North Carolina Cancer Research Hospital at Chapel Hill. Their wedding date is June 29, 2013 and will take place at the Church of the Ascension in Hampton, New Brunswick, Canada.

The Harrison, Arkansas native came to Fayetteville as a walk-on in 1994 and working his way into becoming an All-American in the 1998 season.

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A woman accused of swindling a Fayetteville man who thought she was country music star Alison Krauss pleaded not guilty Friday .