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Arkansas Coach John Pelphrey gives instructions to his team March 11 at the Southeastern Conference tournament in Nashville.

Published March 16, 2010
Photo by Staton Breidenthal Arkansas OnlineWholeHogSports

Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy Taylor Reed grimaces in pain after being shot by a stun gun while being held by deputies John Schuster and Rachael Tishner during a training exercise. The county on Thursday awarded a contract to build a tactical training facility near the Sheriff’s Office and Detention Center in south Fayetteville.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by Kelly Cantrell

University of Arkansas short stop Tim Carver tags out Wisconsin-Milwaukee Shaun Wegner out at second base as he tries to steal second in the first inning of Saturdays game at Baum Stadium in Fayetteville.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by Michael Woods Arkansas OnlineWholeHogSports

Bentonville starter Josh Bonds delivers a pitch during the Tigers’ game Wednesday against Siloam Springs in the Best Sports Classic at the Tiger Athletic Complex in Bentonville. The Tigers will return to action at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday against Fort Smith Southside in Bentonville.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by Marc Henning

Caroline Kelley with the Rogers High School Business Academy speaks Friday at City Hall to area officials about a plan to revitalize the downtown area. Students from the academy were given the problem of bringing more young people to the downtown area.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by Justin Wedgworth

Kelly Lange, 13, takes a compass bearing for one leg of a complicated one-mile course around Memorial Park in Bentonville on Sunday. Lange was completing an orienteering course to advance in rank in Boy Scout Troop 36.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by David Frank Dempsey

Scott Sanders of Fayetteville, foreground, fishes for walleye and white bass in the White River on Sunday in Goshen. Sanders had caught only a few fish so far that day, saying, “It’s better than sitting around.”

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by Andy Shupe

GED students, from left, Amanda McAnally, Steven Poplin II and Seth Adams stand in front of the Adult Education Center in Fayetteville on Friday.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by J.T. Wampler

Eric Sifuentes, left, and Emely Martinez enjoy some free time Thursday at the Early Childhood Center in Springdale.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by J.T. Wampler

Bentonville High School senior Ashlynn Newberry works with an industrial grade engineering program called Auto Desk Inventor in an engineering class at the school in Bentonville on Friday. Newberry was one of 160 children of Honeywell employees to go to the Honeywell Engineering Leadership Challenge Camp at the Rocket & Space Center in Huntsville, Ala., earlier this month.

Published March 15, 2010
Photo by David Frank Dempsey

Isaac Brown

Published March 14, 2010

HEALTHY HIT - Aaron Logan smacks a tennis ball Saturday at the Yvonne Richardson Center during a community health fair day in Fayetteville. The fair was hosted by the Restore Community Development Corporation and provided services including child mentoring opportunity information, glucose and blood pressure checks and women’s health information.

Published March 14, 2010
Photo by David Frank Dempsey

NOT-SO-SMOOTH FINISH - Ryan Smith, 10, left, reacts as his car crashes at the finish line while fellow scouts William Latham, 10, center, and Jacob Kendrick look on Saturday during Cub Scout Pack 121’s annual Pinewood Derby at Benton County Quail Unlimited in Bentonville. Because of the accident, the race was rerun and Smith took first in the heat. The event featured more than 100 entries from the Scouts and included parent and sibling entries. The top six fastest cars from the event will compete in the Razorback District Pinewood Derby on May 15 in Fayetteville.

Published March 14, 2010
Photo by Marc Henning

Heather Edmonson, 9, clutches a Red Bud sapling that she hopes to plant Saturday at Murphy Park after a tree planting event at Grove Park in Springdale. The Illinois Watershed Partnerships’ 2010 Riparian Project brought volunteers to several location in the area to plant trees and clean waterways.

Published March 14, 2010
Photo by Anthony Reyes

CHEMICAL SPILL - Fayetteville firefighter Larry Balding pulls firehose Saturday as a precaution as other firefighters and Hazmat personnel contain a small chemical spill in the Chemistry and Biochemistry Research building on the University of Arkansas campus. The team inspected the building after a student working in a lab spilled a small amount of a chemical, said Battalion Chief Travis Boudrey of Fayetteville Fire Department. The student was unhurt.

Published March 14, 2010
Photo by David Frank Dempsey