Benton County News

The Bentonville-Bella Vista Daybreak Rotary Club hosted its 12th annual installation dinner June 18 at the Metfield Clubhouse in Bella Vista.

Fireworks will light up the weekend sky over Siloam Springs, but unless it's the city's fireworks display, the show's probably illegal.

The Bella Vista Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America this year created a scholarship program for selected high school seniors in Benton County schools.

1965: John Cooper Sr. acquires 14,000 acres for a planned retirement community,BellaVistaVillage. The area is governed by a property owners association.

Two county road projects to benefit Bella Vista drivers are making progress, but their exact status is not known.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., will make some stops in Benton County on an upcoming tour of the state.

Andra Atteberry/The Weekly Vista Tom Wooters, general manager of Village Waste Water Co., buckles up before driving away.

Think about it: How many times have you turned on the television or gone to a movie and seen a police officer - that is, an actor playing a cop - use his gun? If you're like the average American, probably too many times to count.

Jeff Della Rosa/Herald-Leader Terry Brandeberry of Siloam Springs reaches to touch a Murray Grey cow at his Kansas, Okla., farm.

HearingLife has added Lou McGrail to its Arkansas family. McGrail, a clinical audiologist, has been in northwest Arkansas for more than 31 years.

On March 2, 2006, three college students in northeast Ohio were riding in a car together when they were hit by an oncoming vehicle.

Some people around here are pretty stupid. When I say that I am referring to a very, very, very small number of you - I hope.

Barbara Warner of Siloam Springs, Ark., has won five awards in the Arkansas Press Women's 2009 Communications Contest.

On Thursday night, before four justices of the peace sitting on the Long Range Planning Committee for Real Estate, Benton County Judge Dave Bisbee laid out his building plans for the county.

A Siloam Springs man was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.

Strong storms moved through town Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Tornado sirens blared for three minutes after an Oklahoma firefighter spotted a low hanging cloud Tuesday night.

Not getting one's dog a city license can be costly - not showing up for a court appearance because no license was obtained is even more so.

The former assistant dean of boys at the Ozark Adventist Academy in Gentry pleaded not guilty Monday to a charge accusing him of having sex with a female student.

On Saturday night, the first Fair Family Reunion Bail Out or Bust Fundraiser Hoedown will be held at the Benton County Fairgrounds.

The FBI has been asked to look into a false report Friday that a tornado hit Benton County, a claim that was repeated by at least two television stations.