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Skyla Bruner, 7, left, and her twin sister Rachel, both of Fayetteville, sift through sand Saturday while looking for prizes while participating in the Dig for Treasure as their great-aunt Michelle White watches at the Fayetteville Public Library. The activity was a part of the library's kickoff celebration for its annual summer reading program. Visit faylib.org for more information about the reading program and for other summer activities at the library.
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Jay Cantrell, Washington County chief deputy, flips pancakes Saturday during the Washington County Fraternal Order of Police's second annual pancake breakfast at the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Fayetteville. The event raises money for the annual Shop with a Cop program.
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Ken Dawson, left, and Jay Banaszynski, Parks & Recreation employees, install one of six new bicycle racks on Wednesday around the square in downtown Bentonville. Bentonville-based Walmart will hold its annual shareholders meeting Friday at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville.
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Karen Park of Bella Vista assembles a loom Saturday that was used to make ornate straps and belts. Old Town Park in Gravette wound time backward during the second annual Renaissance Festival hosted by the Gravette Public Library. Park and others from the area kingdom of the Society for Creative Anachronism were part of the festival.
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Kyle Pate of Fayetteville, the NWA Media All-Big 7 Baseball Player of the Year, finished 7-0 with a 1.22 ERA in 11 games pitched, and added a .421 batting average with five home runs and 21 RBIs.
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Cody Scroggins of Bentonville is the NWA Media Big 7 Baseball Newcomer of the Year.
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Matt Melson, Rogers High coach, is the NWA Media Big 7 Baseball Coach of the Year after leading the Mounties to the Class 7A state championship game.
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Kristina Medina, lead cook for the Sweet Spot, fries a Funnel Dog on Wednesday at Arvest Ballpark in Springdale.
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Runners make their way through the first obstacle Saturday on the 5K course, hay bales across a small pond, during the Pig Trail Mud Run on the Ecclesia College campus in Springdale. The run is a fundraiser for the Springdale Rotary Club
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Dowell Loggains, former Arkansas quarterback and current offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans, exchanges a high-five with camper Joe Trusty, 9, of Spiro, Okla., on Saturday at Woodland Junior High School in Fayetteville.
In this photo taken late Saturday, June 1, 2013, a demonstrator waves a national flag as Turkish protesters clash with riot police near the former Ottoman palace, Dolmabahce, where Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan maintains an office in Istanbul, Turkey. Protests in Istanbul, Ankara and several other Turkish cities appear to have subsided Sunday, after days of fierce clashes following a police crackdown on a peaceful gathering as protesters denounced what they see as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian style.
This June 23, 2011 booking photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows James "Whitey" Bulger, one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives, captured in Santa Monica, Calif., after 16 years on the run. Bulger's trial begins with jury selection on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 in federal court in Boston.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, left, who is leading a U.S. Congressional delegation to the Russian Federation, Rep. Steven Cohen, center, and U.S. actor Steven Seagal, right, speak to the media after a news conference in U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, June 2, 2013. A U.S. Congressional delegation to Russia learned little about what could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, but got to hang out with Steven Seagal. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who led the six-person delegation this week, said at a press conference Sunday that there was “nothing specific” that could have helped April’s bombings, but that the U.S. and Russia needed to work more closely on joint security threats.
This June 1, 2013 photo shows Leon County officials working to corner Scooter, a 7-year-old llama, who was on the loose in Tallahassee, Fla. Scooter had to be subdued with a Taser, authorities said Sunday.
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Crews respond to a fire Sunday at the 2700 block of Bishop Street.
In this May 9, 2013, file photo Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, confers with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. On a Sunday morning talk show June 2, 2013, Schumer predicted that comprehensive immigration reform would overwhelmingly pass the Senate by July 4.