FAYETTEVILLE — Coming off a grueling Southeastern Conference home series, Dave Van Horn welcomes any time off his team can get. So when Van Horn looks ahead to this week’s schedule and sees a couple of days off, he can’t help but be happy.

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Bella Vista plans to annex a narrow strip of land so that merchants can charge 20 cents per pack in cigarette tax instead of the state’s rate of $1.15.

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A truck carrying 48,000 pounds of liquefied chicken fat overturned at 8:15 a.m. Monday on the northbound off-ramp of Interstate 540 at Sunset Avenue in Springdale.

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FAYETTEVILLE — Betty Paschal has lived in her “little brown house” on Bailey Drive near the Fayetteville Executive Airport since 1961. And she hasn’t yet decided what sort of mitigation offer she might consider by the airport when it relocates U.S. 71 just a few hundred yards from her home.

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ROGERS — Tapping her foot to the beat, Yvonne Caruthers, a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra, listened to string students at the Benton County School of the Arts perform Monday morning.

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FARMINGTON — The Farmington City Council voted on Monday to purchase 18 acres on Southwinds Drive for $365,000 for an 18-acre tract of land upon which to build a ballpark complex.

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BENTONVILLE — Judge David Clinger wants to observe the video of an interview law enforcement officials had with a man charged with murder before a jury trial in July.

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Three Northwest Arkansas high schools — Rogers High School, Rogers Heritage High School and Pea Ridge High School — were accepted Monday into the Arkansas Advanced Initiative For Math and Science.

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FAYETTEVILLE — Fayetteville students entering ninth, 10th and 11th grades next year, and their parents, are invited to an Advanced Placement information meeting today.

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FAYETTEVILLE — A Tea Party Tax Revolt is planned for April 15 in Fayetteville.

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