Batesville News

Here's a look at local and regional happenings. Fall Festival, Mountain Home Berry Farm, Saturdays and Sundays through early November.

One could almost see the hand of fate at work in the lives of Angie Lee Burnham and Julius Stewart.

The flooded roads in Jackson county remind us of the floods of a couple of years ago.

Authorities say two people have died after record-setting rainfall inundated the state for two straight days, leading to flash flooding in some areas.

An investor and an officer of First Community Bank of Batesville were in Mountain Home on Wednesday shopping for investment properties and a location for an upstart restaurant franchise here.

Batesville citizens, teachers and administrators and consultants worked together to arrive at a plan to update the four Batesville Community School Corp.

Not many people have a job that take them to the ends of the Earth, but Bob Smith is one of those few.

Travis L. Cagle, 30, of Calico Rock has been brought from Independence County to Baxter County Detention Center on outstanding warrants of arrest for breaking or entering and felony theft of property.

A Region 8 man was killed when his motorcycle hit an oncoming car head-on. The accident happened around 5:30 Tuesday evening on highway 69 in Newark in Independence County.

When FutureFuel Corp. began separating its IT systems from its former parent company almost three years ago, it had carte blanche to build its own IT infrastructure however it saw fit.

Photo by Tammy Curtis Residents of John 3:16 prepare food for the crowd at their Variety Night benefit Oct.

For the third year, Manna House Food Pantry will be buying raw walnuts from local farmers, property owners and organizations.

Jane W. Duke, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration announced today a final sweep of arrests in the four-year joint drug trafficking investigation operationally dubbed "Tienda Hielo" or ...

The Gold Level Sponsor is First Community Bank. Proceeds to benefit UACCB's Nursing and Allied Health Facility! 4 - Person Scramble will be held on Friday, October 16, 2009 at The Course at Eagle Mountain.

One man is in critical condition, another is on the run this morning after a shooting in Independence County.

The total budget of the project will be around $5 million. The remaining funding will come from bonds that have been sold by Crittenden County to support the school.

One man is in custody--while another fights for his life in a Little Rock hospital following a shooting in a Region Eight cemetary.

The Department of Human Services has selected Batesville to be the site for a new processing and call center.

It's time for the Big Reveal of the renovation of a vintage home that became a doctor's office that will become the Batesville Area Historical Society museum.

BATESVILLE - Alley Coplen, Jason DeMoulpied, Ross Everett, Kendl Fischer and Johnathan Mrsny, all of Norfork High School, recently were recognized for completing the 2009 Upward Bound Math-Science Summer Session at Lyon College.