Westside Eagle Observer News Today

SPRINGDALE — WEHCO Newspapers, Inc. will consolidate its printing in Little Rock, announcing plans Tuesday to cease printing at the company’s plant in Springdale in mid-January.

Randy Moll, the managing editor of the weekly Westside Eagle Observer newspaper, has been promoted to a new position with NWA Media.

GENTRY -- Leah Queen, 43, a physical education teacher at Gentry Intermediate School was arrested Thursday in connection with charges of possessing a controlled substance and sexual assault in the second degree, according to the Benton County Jail arrest log.

GENTRY -- Leah Queen, 43, a physical education teacher at Gentry Intermediate School was arrested Thursday in connection with charges of possessing a controlled substance and sexual assault in the second degree, according to the Benton County Jail arrest log.

There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.

When the covid-19 pandemic spread like wildfire across Arkansas in March 2020, many longtime events such as the 121-year-old Tontitown Grape Festival were forced to cancel. So too did the 66-year-old Decatur Barbecue, which began in 1953.

ACLU demands change in Benton County jail reading material policy ACLU demands change in Benton County jail reading material policy The Benton County jail has placed on inmate reading matter, allowing only Bibles and religious materials. Its release: Advertisement The ACLU of Arkansas today demanded that the Benton County Sheriff restore access to reading material, asserting the sheriff’s book ban violates the First Amendment rights of incarcerated people. As reported by the Eagle Observer,...

Last Saturday, Richard Barnett of Gravette, Arkansas, criticised Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a Facebook post for using the description "white nationalist" as a "derogatory term". "I am white. There is no denying that. I am a nationalist. I put my nation first. So that makes me a white nationalist," Barnett wrote on page he maintained under a pseudonym, before adding that people who were not nationalists should "get the f...out of our nation". Just four days later, Barnett was pho...

BBC News By Reality Check team and BBC Monitoring BBC News image copyrightGetty Images Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump? Some were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap. QAnon among the protesters Images show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online...

Arkansan prominent among mob who stormed U.S. Capitol The man in a widely circulated photograph with his feet up in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is from Benton County. He’s Richard “Bigo” Barnett of Gravette, the founder of 2A NWA STAND, which bills itself as a 2nd Amendment rights group. The New York Times’ Matthew Rosenberg captured a profane video of Barnett explaining his version of the events. Advertisement Here’s Mr. Barnett, who goes by “Bigo,” telling the stor...