Yellville News

YELLVILLE - Marion County got a new sheriff, Roger L. Vickers, in January, and along with him came a new look for the sheriff's department.

YELLVILLE - The jazz and rock band known as Spinrad is to perform at Music on the Square stage Saturday night in downtown Yellville.

District Court for Baxter County was held June 16 and 18, 2009, before Judge Van Gearhart.

YELLVILLE - Big Daddy from St. Joe headlines Saturday's Music on the Square at Yellville.

CONWAY - McKenzie B. Hobbs of Yellville has been recognized as a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda, National Leadership and Honors Organization at University of Central Arkansas.

YELLVILLE - Arkansas State Trooper Cpl. Clinton L. Evans said a Eureka Springs man, Zachary A. Elmore, 24, was taken to Cox South Medical Center at Springfield, Mo., following a moped accident on state Highway 235 just west of Yellville Wednesday at 12:43 p.m. Trooper Evans said Elmore was eastbound negotiating a left turn curve when the 2007 ...

YELLVILLE - Crooked Creek, a popular bluegrass band that's performed in the Twin Lakes Area for the past three years, is this week's headliner for Music on the Square in Yellville Saturday night.

Jefferson Wood's gnome collection didn't start with a gnome. It started with a little pixie figurine given to him by a friend.

Jennifer White has joined the staff of Cuttin Up in Yellville. White offers manicures, pedicures, perms, sets, color and cuts.

Blues band Carnes and the Heaters - featuring Carnes McCormack, Beci Coffee, Tim Hobbs, Kent Coffee, Byron Shipman, and Marc Stoops - will be performing at Yellville's Music on the Square at 7 p.m. Saturday.

A two-vehicle crash Tuesday at 4:06 p.m. at Highway 62 and East Sixth St. resulted in injury to one driver, Jeannie M. Davis, 42, of Yellville.

Two inmates who escaped from an Arkansas prison while disguised as correction officers had identification badges, handcuffs and a set of keys with them when they were captured in New York last week, authorities said Monday.

The Arkansas National Guard OH-58 helicopter that crashed Thursday afternoon has been successfully removed from the Buffalo River south of Yellville.

A helicopter with a crew searching for illegal drugs crashed into the Buffalo River early Thursday afternoon near Buffalo River State Park.

A military helicopter with three people on board has reportedly crashed near Buffalo Point Lodge on the Buffalo River, south of Yellville.

YELLVILLE - There will be dancing in the street - literally - as the six-member Dirty Rug Band takes the stage at 7 p.m., Saturday at Music on the Square in Yellville.

Two convicted killers who escaped from prison - one of them with a Yellville connection - were seen in Michigan on Monday, according to an Arkansas Correction Department spokeswoman, Jeffery L. Grinder, 32, formerly of Yellville and Calvin Adams, 39, escaped Friday evening from the Cummins Unit at Grady dressed in prison guard uniforms made at the ...

Bull Shoals City Park was renamed Roy Danuser City Park by an ordinance adopted unanimously Thursday by the Bull Shoals City Council.

YELLVILLE - The Little Britches Rodeo, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at the Marion County Fairgrounds, has been canceled due to ice storm damage to the power lines, according to the Marion County Fair Board.

A Yellville man was injured Tuesday in a one-vehicle accident on state Highway 14, four miles west of Summit.