Mulberry News

News Briefs Story date: June 26, 2009 DART to meet July 7 The DART Committee met June 18 to plan the Great Arkansas Clean-up/National Public Lands Day.

Arkansas Valley Electric workers are busy today trying to get one of their substations back on-line. Many residents in Crawford County were temporarily without electricity overnight after an explosion and fire at that substation.

Law enforcement agencies described the level of criminal activity as "routine" at the four-day Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival that drew up to 15,000 people to Mulberry Mountain.

FIRE FIGHTERS ARE AT THE SCENE OF AN EXPLOSION AT A POWER SUBSTATION NORTHEAST OF ALMA.

Noon, Mulberry Mountain, Ozark. $59-$159. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 15,000 people are expected to climb Mulberry Mountain this weekend for the biggest music and camping festival Arkansas has seen in recent memory.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/MICHAEL WOODS Thousands of people are expected to arrive this week for the four-day Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival on Mulberry Mountain.

A crowd of Mulberry residents gathered and jeered at David Sweet when police arrested him April 30 in connection with the attempted abduction of a female medical clinic employee, a deputy's arrest report said.

Firefighters on Tuesday morning contained a large fire that destroyed a convenience store three miles north of Mulberry on Highway 215 in Crawford County.

A manhunt is currently underway after a hostage situation at a River Valley medical clinic.

A Mulberry man arrested on kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges had served 20 years in a Georgia prison for sex crimes against minors.

Police in northwest Arkansas are searching for a registered sex offender accused of attempting to kidnap a woman from a Mulberry medical clinic.

Alma police arrested a man on g un and drug charges this week while searching his house as part of an investigation of a missing woman.

A Crawford County man who police want to question about a possible homicide appeared in court on drug and weapons charges on Thursday.

Crawford County sheriff's deputies say a body discovered along the Arkansas River could be that of an Alma woman missing since November.

Police in Crawford County are investigating remains found along the Arkansas River in Mulberry.

One the Midwest's biggest music and camping festivals heads south. HEADLINING WAKARUSA: The Black Crowes.

The festival, now in its 6th year, but first on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, is June 4-7. Previously held near Lawrence, Kan., the event has drawn as many as 30,000 in the past.

Her vet bill is more than $10,000, and yet she can't turn a mutt away no matter what; even if he or she has mange.