Fayetteville’s downtown on Sunday afternoon could get a little more desolate if parking rates go from free to 50 cents an hour, merchants say.

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A large meteor streaked across the Midwestern sky, momentarily turning night into day, rattling houses and causing trees and the ground to shake, authorities said Thursday. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

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After two successful years at Neosho, Mo., Shawn Flannigan decided to beef up the Wildcats’ schedule to better prepare them for the rigors of playing in the second largest classification in the state.

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Bill and LaVeta Sergeant of Springdale attended their first Tea Party protest Thursday because they are concerned about runaway government spending, growing federal deficits and taxes.

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The Benton County Long Range Planning Committee was happy to see a proposal to develop a master plan presented to them Thursday by Tom Johnson of Johnson Troillett Architecture.

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West Fork High School Principal John Karnes and former middle school principal David Skelton are among the 25 applicants to become the next West Fork superintendent.

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Allan Hatcher, a controller for Bekaert Corp., spent Thursday cleaning out a therapy room at the Benton County Sunshine School. “This is special, because I never do it at home,” he joked while wiping a window.

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The first spade of dirt has yet to be turned for a new irrigation system for the Country Club, and already the project is going to cost more than budgeted.

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Clunky computer monitors that once held places of honor on desktops sat stacked four feet high on wooden pallets in the parking lot of Arvest Ballpark on Thursday, waiting to be wrapped in heavy plastic and loaded onto trucks.

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Northwest Arkansas law enforcement agencies are searching for a 16-year-old autistic, mentally handicapped girl who walked away from her foster mother at Walmart in Siloam Springs on Wednesday.

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