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Hunter Smithpeters of Bentonville pushes himself Wednesday during the 100-meter dash at Ramay Junior High in Fayetteville during Day 1 of the decathlon and heptathlon state meets. Smithpeters won his heat with a time of 11.43 seconds.
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Hunter Smithpeters of Bentonville pushes himself Wednesday during the 100-meter dash at Ramay Junior
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Lauren Powers, Bentonville senior outside forward, will be playing in her fourth straight 7A State S
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Lauren Powers, Bentonville senior outside forward, will be playing in her fourth straight 7A State Soccer Championship game on Friday when her team takes on Mount St. Mary in Fayetteville.
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Payton Stumbaugh reaches up high during her long jump attempt Wednesday at the Ramay Junior High Sch
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Payton Stumbaugh reaches up high during her long jump attempt Wednesday at the Ramay Junior High School track and field complex in Fayetteville during Day 1 of the decathlon and heptathlon state meets.
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Laura Quillen, principal at Reagan Elementary in Rogers, gets help with some whipped-cream removal d
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Laura Quillen, principal at Reagan Elementary in Rogers, gets help with some whipped-cream removal during the school's field day on Wednesday May 15 2013. Students were treated to games of all types, including a pie toss at Quillen and Matthew Howard, assistant principal. Students who qualified through academic achievement and behavior got to toss cream pies at the two. About 50 parent volunteers helped run the field day, Howard said. They were treated to breakfast and lunch on Wednesday as part of a parent-volunteer appreciation program at the school.
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Carl Koffler moves straw Wednesday morning at the community garden at Butterfield Trail Village in F
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Carl Koffler moves straw Wednesday morning at the community garden at Butterfield Trail Village in Fayetteville. Koffler and about 20 couples participate in growing organic vegetables used by the residents and in the kitchen of the center. Koffler was tending to the garlic, onions and the vertical growth cucumbers Wednesday.
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Patrolman Jeremy Brown, with the Springdale Police Department drops a rose Wednesday in front of the
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Patrolman Jeremy Brown, with the Springdale Police Department drops a rose Wednesday in front of the fallen police officer memorial following the Northwest Arkansas Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony at the Springdale Police Department. Brown and many other representatives from area law enforcement agencies attended at the ceremony. The event featured a tribute to fallen law enforcement officers from the area, prayers and a 21 gun salute by the Fayetteville Police Department Honor Guard.
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Bryant Bewley plays "Taps" Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at the Northwest Arkansas Law Enforcement Memoria
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Bryant Bewley plays "Taps" Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at the Northwest Arkansas Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony at the Springdale Police Department in Springdale. The event featured a tribute to fallen law enforcement officers from the area, prayers and a 21 gun salute by the Fayetteville Police Department Honor Guard.
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Alex Miles, left, and Daniel Spickes, both of Rogers Heritage, race side-by-side Wednesday during th
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Alex Miles, left, and Daniel Spickes, both of Rogers Heritage, race side-by-side Wednesday during the 100-meter dash at Ramay Junior High in Fayetteville during Day 1 of the decathlon and heptathlon state meets.
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Matt Melson has elevated the Rogers Mounties baseball team to the championship level.
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Matt Melson has elevated the Rogers Mounties baseball team to the championship level.
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Chris Greear, right, and Austin Griffin, of Rogers High celebrate after winning the semifinals game
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Chris Greear, right, and Austin Griffin, of Rogers High celebrate after winning the semifinals game over Bryant on Saturday at Veterans Park in Rogers during the 7A state baseball tournament.
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Alex Salas, Springdale High senior goalkeeper, served as a backup during Springdale’s run to a state
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Alex Salas, Springdale High senior goalkeeper, served as a backup during Springdale’s run to a state championship a year ago, but took over as the starter this year during 7A/6A- West Conference play.
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Construction crews work on removing a layer of asphalt on the Lafayette Street bridge in Fayettevill
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Construction crews work on removing a layer of asphalt on the Lafayette Street bridge in Fayetteville WEdnesday morning. The construction is part of an ongoing project to restore the bridges, which run over the Arkansas & Missouri Railroad tracks between Gregg and West Avenue and were built in the 1930s by the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration. Chris Brown, city engineer, said removing asphalt will allow engineers with McClelland Consulting Engineers to test the concrete decks of both bridges for structural soundness. Brown said no other street closures are planned during the design phase of the project. Construction will likely begin in spring 2014, he added.
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Fayetteville High School seniors Grayce Randolph and A.J. Davis hand out some senior awards Wednesda
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Fayetteville High School seniors Grayce Randolph and A.J. Davis hand out some senior awards Wednesday morning during the Senior breakfast at Mermaids in Fayetteville. The breakfast gave Fayetteville High School seniors a chance to have a little fun together before graduation as they reflected back on their senior year.
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Holt Middle School teacher Brandon Craft (left) and assistant principal Rich Guthrie (right) spray p
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Holt Middle School teacher Brandon Craft (left) and assistant principal Rich Guthrie (right) spray pink hair dye onto the head of their fellow teacher Blaine Sanders Wednesday morning during a morning assembly in Fayetteville. The teachers dyed their hair in an effort to help motivate their students who closed out a year of studying community giving/service. The students efforts resulted in $1,500 being raised to donate to Olivia’s Basket.
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Utility workers try to restore electric power on down lines on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Cleburne,
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Utility workers try to restore electric power on down lines on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Cleburne, Texas. A rash of tornadoes slammed into several small communities in North Texas overnight, leaving at least six people dead, dozens more injured and hundreds homeless. The violent spring storm scattered bodies, flattened homes and threw trailers onto cars.
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Deseree Breen, left, and Austin Cooper, both seniors at Heritage High School, work May 7 on a pickup
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Deseree Breen, left, and Austin Cooper, both seniors at Heritage High School, work May 7 on a pickup’s brakes during automotive class.
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Charlie Brown, an 11-year-old chocolate labrador retriever, sits as the middle of attention Tuesday
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Charlie Brown, an 11-year-old chocolate labrador retriever, sits as the middle of attention Tuesday from the second-graders from Sherri Wheeler’s class at Vandergriff Elementary School in Fayetteville. Charlie Brown is the namesake of the annual book sale at the school that raises money for the Fayetteville Animal Shelter. The book sale that takes place the last week of school will offer around 15,000 books this year.
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Rudy Upshaw, Bentonville School Board member, discusses suggestions Thursday presented by board memb
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Rudy Upshaw, Bentonville School Board member, discusses suggestions Thursday presented by board members on a new high school during a meeting at the administration building in Bentonville.
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