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Calling All Angels: Upcoming 20K to include Ainsley's Angels

Ainsley’s Angels, an organization which seeks to make endurance events accessible to everyone while also building awareness about the special needs community, will participate in this years’ Saline County Striders 20K .

Volunteer fire department to host weekend training

Beginning today, the Collegeville Fire Department will be hosting a weekend-long training focused on engine, truck and command operations with light staffing.

El Cena Casa Day offering up Tex-Mex favorites Saturday

El Cena Casa Day will be serving up nostalgia at Riverside Grocery and Catering from 3 p.m. until they run out on Saturday.

Manhunt still underway

Arkansas State Police are still on the lookout for a person who was involved in an accident with a state trooper's vehicle Monday and then fled the scene.

Seventh Amplify set for Friday and Saturday

Christian music and a festival atmosphere will take over the area around Holland Chapel Baptist Church, located at 15523 Interstate 30 in Benton, for two days for Amplify Christian Music Festival. The seventh annual event is set Friday and Saturday.

Service arrangements announced for HG student

A cross and colorful flowers symbolize grief and sorrow near an overpass pillar in Benton this morning. The location marks where 16-year-old Harmony Grove High School junior Olivia Brewington lost her life Saturday following a single-vehicle accident.

UPDATE: Victim of fatal accident identified as Harmony Grove student

The juvenile killed in a vehicle accident Saturday has been identified as Harmony Grove student Olivia Brewington, 16, according to a Harmony Grove School District official.

The district took to social media Saturday with the following statement:

Juvenile killed in I-30 accident Saturday

According to the Arkansas State Police, a juvenile was killed Saturday afternoon after the vehicle she was driving left the roadway of eastbound Interstate 30 near the 119 mile marker.

The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m.

No injuries in Military rollover accident

A two-vehicle rollover accident on Military Road on Friday caused delays, but no injuries were reported.

It is unknown at this time what caused the accident.

Newcomb Towing Service and the Benton Police Department responded to the accidnet.

Benton man fit for trial in the negligent deaths of his children

A 31-year-old Benton man has been found competent to stand trial for the 2017 deaths of his two children.
Jonathan Welborn appeared before Saline County Judge Barbara Webb on Monday where the court heard the results of his competency hearing.