Baxter County News

The Baxter County Extension Homemakers Club Spring Council May 19, 2009 at Big Creek Country Club included installation of new Ccunty officers who will through June 2011.

Two of four inmates who escaped from the Kay County Jail in Oklahoma have been captured in Missouri.

Acting on a citizen's tip, Baxter County Sheriff's investigators arrested Jack Wesley McCoy, 26, of Big Flat Thursday in connection with three commercial burglaries that occurred early Wednesday at Charlie's Place, Katie's Grocery, and City Hall in Big Flat.

A Bull Shoals woman has surrendered herself to the Baxter County Sheriff's Office in Arkansas on an outstanding warrant of arrest for the offense of delivery of a controlled substance, a news release from Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery said.

A federal investigator says the plane that crashed Friday at Gastons White River Resort in Baxter County -- killing three Missourians -- was not overweight.

Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery notified the public Wednesday that Shane Michael Mullin, 26, a level 3 sex offender who was just released from the Arkansas Department of Corrections, is residing in Mountain Home.

When Jack Clayton stripped the plaster from the walls of his natural-foods store, he found a doorway to the past.

The Baxter County, Ark. Sheriff's Department sent a public notification about a registered sex offender residing in Baxter County.

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

The Baxter County Sheriff's office says the cause of death of a 53-year old Mountain Home woman at a swimming pool Tuesday night is undetermined.

Deputies and emergency rescue crews have just arrived on scene of a plane crash just south of Gaston's Resort, in Lakeview.

Authorities say an airplane has crashed in northern Arkansas near popular trout fishing site Gaston's White River Resort.

The Hemmings Challenge Vintage Car Rally is to make a lunchtime stop in Mountain Home as part of a rally this week centered in Springfield, Mo.

Baxter County sheriff's officials say the apparent drowning of a 53-year-old woman in a home swimming pool appears to be accidental.

A approximateloy 7:03 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, 911 received a call of a possible drowning at a residence on Panther Heights Road, off state Highway 101, according to a Baxter County Sheriff's Office report.

John Montgomery, sheriff of Baxter County, Ark., said in a news release responders are looking fo a potential drowning victim in the Bear Foot Cove area of Lake Norfork, which is near Buzzard Roost.

A man who used the identity of an Arkansas singer/songwriter pleaded guilty to financial identity fraud Thursday in Baxter County Circuit Court and received 10 years' probation.

The Sheriff's Department of Baxter County, Ark. announced that it recovered the body of Jonesboro resident William B. Lacy III, 49.

State and local dive teams were looking for the body of a person suspected to have drowned Friday afternoon in the Bare Foot Cove area of Norfork Lake near the Buzzard Roost Marina.

In arraignments during Thursday's Baxter County Circuit Court session, not-guilty pleas were entered by: David Corbin, 24, of Mountain Home for three counts delivery of a controlled substance.