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The new airport here will provide another travel option for people living as far away as Fayetteville, airport officials claim.

State and local dive teams were looking for the body of a person suspected to have drowned Friday afternoon in the Bare Foot Cove area of Norfork Lake near the Buzzard Roost Marina.

Photograph submitted Sarah Dickey, Susan Ledbetter and Suzy Pratt, in the front row; Amanda Thomas and Ashley Devenney, in the middle row; and Thomas Williams, Fairy Degener and Trey Ferguson, in the back row, stood by the front porch of The Coffee House, First United Methodist Church of Bentonville's newest ministry designed for young adults.

Environmental Officer George Johnson, of Jonesboro, has made several illegal dumping site discoveries in eastern Craighead County this month and is determined to penalize offenders.

Fayetteville planning commissioners on Monday denied 6-2 a request from Roll Off Service Inc.

ANDY SHUPE Northwest Arkansas Times Guitarist Dennis Collins performs with Mike Kelly, right, as well as Mike Sumler and John Johnson, not pictured, during a performance Sunday, the first in the library's summer Mountain Street Stage series.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Fayetteville Mayor Lioneld Jordan, left, talks with Jim Waselues on Tuesday after a City Council meeting.

The Shiloh Museum of Ozark History is offering a series of free Saturday programs for families this summer.

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.

Anyone interested in learning to land a space shuttle can give it a try at the Clinton Presidential Center this summer.

Authorities say an Arkansas man died after falling 200 feet from the top of a cell phone tower in Leland, Miss.

The Fayetteville Public Library is located at 401 W. Mountain St. All events are free unless otherwise noted.

COURTESY Jim Johnson, left, was presented the prestigious Paul Harris Fellowship Award by Springdale Rotary President Blake Hanby, right.

Fayetteville School District Board of Education members voted 6-1 Thursday to hold a millage election in September to raise money to build new high school facilities on the current site.

The Fayetteville School District administration's plan to finance the construction of a high school could limit the district's ability to finance new construction projects for the next five years.

ANDY SHUPE Northwest Arkansas Times Tracy Argo, owner of White River Fertilizer Supply, stands Friday next to a device used to bale chicken litter at his facility north of Summers.

ANTHONY REYES Northwest Arkansas Times Marcella Thompson, right, talks with Bobbi Johnson about a yellow iris Thompson had for sale at her stand May 16 at the Fayetteville Farmers' Market on the Fayetteville Square.

Dental records assisted authorities in identifying the body found in a burned car as 26-year-old Carlos Roberto Echevarria Sepulveda.

Four people were arrested Tuesday in connection with Sunday's discovery of a burned body in the trunk of a car.

Four men have been arrested in connection with the death of an unidentified person found burned in the trunk of a car over the weekend.