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FAYETTEVILLE -- A man pleaded guilty Thursday to stabbing to death a man described as a good Samaritan. Cantrell Graydon stabbed David Allen , 25, at least 10 times early Oct . 24, 2015 at the Stadium Apartments, 1069 Olympic Place. Allen died later at a hospital. Graydon was arrested later on the day of the stabbing. He was charged with capital murder. The 33-year-old Fayetteville man stood before Washington County Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay in a nearly empty courtroom and pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors. [ EMAIL UPDATES : Get free breaking news updates and daily newsletters with top headlines delivered to your inbox] In exchange for his plea, Graydon was sentenced to 35 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction. He will have to serve about 24 years or 70 percent of his sentence, before becoming eligible for parole. He was given credit for 662 days of jail time served . First-degree murder is punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison. Capital murder is punis...

FAYETTEVILLE -- A man pleaded guilty this morning to stabbing a family member to death two years ago. Cantrell A. Graydon, 33, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder before Judge Mark Lindsay in Washington County Circuit Court . [ EMAIL UPDATES : Get free breaking news updates and daily newsletters with top headlines delivered to your inbox] Graydon stabbed David Allen, 25, multiple times during a fight Oct. 24, 2015, at the Stadium Apartments on Olympic Place. Allen died later at a hospital. Graydon was arrested later the same day. He was charged with capital murder, which is punishable by life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty. In exchange for his plea, Graydon was sentenced to 35 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction. NW News on 08/17/2017

With one hand silver from spray paint resting on her waist and an umbrella looped through the other hand, an Argentinian artist stands on a brick wall and overlooks the progress of her work for the public art program . A light breeze ruffles her dress, which was once black but now pops with color, as she smiles at her project for Green Candy, located on the side of a Dickson Street brewery . Marina Zumi has been painting street murals for the past 15 years. She has not thought of a name for her newest mural yet, but she will when she is finished, she said. Green Candy is an art- action program supervised by Experience Fayetteville, the city’s tourism department. In 2015, the governing body of Experience Fayetteville set aside money for the art project. In July, Experience Fayetteville partnered with JustKids to hire six artists to create large works of public art, said Hazel Hernandez, the director of marketing and communication for Experience Fayetteville. JustKids is a global...

Through it all, Tackel continued to collect and study his rocks. Typically frugal, he splurged on a $1,400 rock saw so he could see how the rocks looked inside . He carved some like slabs of bacon. Others he sliced into thin pieces that looked like petrified wood. He cleaned and polished them and mounted them in frames. He photographed hundreds of samples, posing them with quarters and pennies to show their size, and sent them to experts around the world. For a time, he slept with a six-shot revolver to protect his collection from thieves. He returned to the creek beds again and again until he could no longer walk, lugging 40- pound trash bags of samples from creek bed to truck and from his truck to his house. Sometimes he brought Jones’ two children, whom he helped care for. Over the years, the samples accumulated under his bed, took over the guest room, lined the bottoms of drawers, huddled in his shower, spilled onto the patio, hid inside every cabinet and filled his garage. He bou...

From Conway Police Department reports A note on the proceedings Sunday, Aug. 13 at 10 minutes after 2 p.m., police were called to a business on Main Street. Police arrived and found a sticky note on the business’s window upon which was written “[Redacted] Trump.” The note-writer, the officer noted, referred to himself or herself as the “Alt-right” on the same note. On another business, officers spotted another note, and with further investigation found about 10 to 15 notes attached to various local businesses. The notes were not limited to the statement of the first note, but instead included such statements as: “Justice for Muslims, Avenge Cuille,” “ Make Racists afraid again” and “ Protect LGBTQ rights .” Pictures were taken and the specifics on location were recorded. (Post-it notes, as they are labeled by the manufacturer, 3M, are based in the 1968 creation by a 3M researcher who was trying to come up with an especially strong adhesive. In one experiment it was a failure, and the...