Washington County News

The Rogers Police Department has put Sgt. Jesse Ray on paid administrative leave following his arrest Friday on suspicion of choking his wife and threatening to kill her, deputies said.

A teacher at Helen Tyson Middle School sent an email that lists the name of every student who needs a tetanus or diphtheria vaccination to get into the next grade to all the parents of students in the sixth grade.

Help pick up trash on the river and keep NWA's drinking water clean at the Eighth Annual West Fork Watershed Cleanup from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at West Fork Riverside Park, off Arkansas 170.

Hyper competitive lease rates have put two local restaurants out of business as parties were unable to negotiate favorable terms.

A Springdale man is in jail facing a manslaughter charge after police say he punched another man in the face outside the Electric Cowboy bar in Fayetteville.

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The Clark County, Nev., District Attorney's office is seeking to extradite Brandon Barber, saying the former Fayetteville developer wrote hot checks valued at $52,500 to cover a marker at a Las Vegas casino.

Robert Maynard, 27, was booked in the Washington County Detention Center on Friday afternoon and released on $2,500 bond later that day, according to the Sheriff's Department website.

Laura Kelly, center, a longtime bicycling advocate, speaks Friday with Kristin Klemm during an announcement to declare May 12-18 as Bike To Work Week on the Fayetteville square before riders left for a crosstown ride along the city's trail system.

A complete list of road closures due to the heavy rain. Please avoid any of these roads listed bellow.

Thursday night, the Washington County sheriff's office received a report of an 18-wheeler flipped over on Hazel Valley Road just north of Nickel Church Road.

Terminating an agreement Thursday between two solid waste districts could mean fewer environmental programs and job losses in one county and financial stability and job creation in another two counties.

A flash flood warning is in effect for Benton County, Carroll County, Madison County, Washington County, Adair County, Oklahoma, Cherokee County, Oklahoma, and Delaware County Oklahoma until 4:30 a.m. Friday The National Weather Service indicated thunderstorms with very heavy rain over this area.

Gov. Mike Beebe on Thursday named Fayetteville attorney David Steward to replace Rudy Moore Jr.

A Lincoln couple was arrested following a fraud investigation that involved victims in four states and two law enforcement agencies.

The attorney for a Greenland murder suspect is calling on county court officials to abolish the possibility of the death penalty for Mandrake Patterson, calling the death penalty racist against African Americans.

The trial of a Springdale man accused of killing his infant stepson has been reset to begin May 20 in Washington Court Circuit Court, according to court officials.

A former Fayetteville developer is back in jail after two days of hearings. A judge sent Brandon Barber back to the Washington County Detention Center Tuesday while the courts and Barber's attorneys figure out a permanent location for his house arrest.

Police in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley are searching for two men they say are involved in an attempted murder investigation out of Fort Smith.

The husband of a woman accused in the death of a Prairie Grove man is behind bars after police say an inquiry into homemade bombs turned into a drug investigation.