🌱 Bentonville Girl Shaves Head For Charity + County Judge Ruling

Happy Tuesday, people of Bentonville! Here's everything you need to know about what's happening locally today.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly cloudy and chilly. High: 49 Low: 30.

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Here are the top stories in Bentonville today:

1. A Bentonville girl shaved her head on Sunday to raise awareness and money for juvenile Battens disease. 11-year-old Valerie Schwimmer and her twin sister Natalie are best friends with another set of twins, Makenzie and Amelia Kahn. The Kahn twins have Battens disease, a rare and fatal genetic disorder. (KNWA)
2. A Benton County judge issued rulings Monday on several motions in the case of a Rogers man accused of killing a 2-year-old girl. 28-year-old Joshua Anderson is charged with capital murder, facing the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole if convicted. Many of the motions dealt with seeking to declare the death penalty unconstitutional; Benton County Circuit Judge Brad Karren ruled against each of them.(Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
3. A Bella Vista writing group finds a historic home that was once part of the Bentonville School District. (Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)
4. The Bentonville Christmas Parade will be coming downtown this Saturday night. (Downtown Bentonville Inc.)
5. Channing Barker, Benton County's communications director since 2017, has left to take a new job in Bentonville working for Walmart Inc. (talkbusiness.net)

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