West Fork News

When ten-year-old Will Phillips, of West Fork, Ark., found a principle he couldn't stand up for--he sat down.

There are a lot of things to be thankful for this holiday season. I'm thankful for Will Phillips.

On today's CNN Newsroom, anchor Kyra Phillips went after the kids who supposedly bully a 10-year-old boy who refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance because homosexual marriage isn't widely accepted.A Some of his classmates allegedly call him names.A Phillips's weapon of choice was name calling: And a message to you boys who are bullying Will, ...

Considering the way my last hero from Arkansas turned out, I wish Will Phillips were from somewhere else.

That 10-year-old lad in West Fork, Will Phillips, has become something of a hero.

After more than two hours of debate, the Quorum Court's Budget Committee approved the 2010 budget with raises, 9-4. Three Republican justices of the peace - Butch Pond, Gary Carnahan and Mary Ann Spears - voted with the six Democratic justices of the peace to pass the budget.

Ten-year-old Will Phillips may have just become the new cause celebre of the gay rights movement.

Washington County emergency personnel said Wednesday afternoon that they were called out to a small capsized boat in the West Fork of the White River, not far from Pump Station Road.

Fayetteville police, firefighters, and a dive team were called out to the West Fork of the White River around 3:30 p.m. to rescue a man from deep water.

A judge has rejected a West Fork mana s request to set aside two murder convictions for killing his parents.

The West Fork Fire Department spent the afternoon putting out a house fire on N. Centennial Ave.

Last weeka s 35-0 loss at undefeated Booneville has given West Forka s game this Friday an added sense of urgency.

It was a GOOD week for a WILL PHILLIPS . The West Fork fifth grader declined to say the Pledge of Allegiance because he said he didn't believe the U.S. provided justice for all, particularly gay people.

Therea s a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasna t going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all in America, as the pledgea s rote recitation asserts.

"Will Phillips, is a fifth-grade student at West Fork Middle School in West Fork, Arkansas.

KNWA News : WEST FORK, Arkansas -- "When I heard from the principal, I was not happy," said Jay Phillips.

WEST FORK, Ark. - A middle school student who refused to stand for and say the Pledge of Allegiance has been disciplined for suggesting a teacher "jump off a bridge" when she objected to this behavior, the school principal said.

Arvest Bank employee Amy Simco headlined a group of honorees at the Washington County Sheriffa s Office Awards and Promotional Ceremony on Tuesday.

Posted today at 6:18 a.m. Greenland Mayor John Gray announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate against current Democratic Sen.

Andy Shupe Dean Henry of Highlandville, Mo., describes the bird feeders that he and his wife make from used tires as Wendy McCain of West Fork and her 3-year-old son, Jake, listen during the Clothesline Fair on Sunday in Prairie Grove.