Baxter County News

Reports Tuesday afternoon indicated an employee of Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative, headquartered in Marshfield, was killed in a helicopter crash in northern Arkansas.

Two people are killed when the helicopter they were riding in crashes in Jordan, Arkansas.

A tour company helicopter crashed Tuesday in northern Arkansas near the Norfork Dam, killing two people aboard, officials said.

A lightning strike caused a house fire in Mountain Home. About 10:30 p.m. Saturday, the Baxter County Sheriff's Office arrived at a house fire in the 2300 block of West Road, according to a Baxter County ...

District court for Baxter County was July 1, 3, 7 and 10, 2008, before Judge Van Gearhart.

A Mountain Home day care is under increased monitoring by a state agency after a child was kidnapped from the facility last month.

It's finally ready -- the open house for the new addition at the Fulton County Hospital will be held July 20 from 1:30 p.m. until 4 p.m. and area residents will get a first-hand look at the impressive changes ...

Take a look back in history through back issues ofThe Baxter Bulletin: 100 years ago July 10, 1908 Wilson Brady - if the name be given right - the man who cracked the post office safe in Mountain Home on ...

Two men are in the Baxter County Detention Center, facing charges related to a drug bust earlier Tuesday.

One thing Baxter County Office of Emergency Management Director Tom Fischer has learned is that the emergency-response book is never completed, there are always additions to be made.

The close of business Monday is the deadline for groups to turn in signatures to place items on the November 4th general election ballot.

Baxter County should be reimbursed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for most of the slightly more than $500,000 spent following natural disasters, including a Gassville tornado Feb.

Retail trade in Baxter County appeared steady in April as the county's one cent sales tax fetched $519,921 and Mountain Home's one cent tax brought in $366,204. Both collections exceed totals from the same ...

It has been a strange year so far, as far as the weather is concerned in Baxter County as residents faced a tornado which killed one Gassville resident and destroyed or damaged numerous homes and businesses, ...

Defining high density by any criteria in housing developments in rural Baxter County will happen at the discretion of the Baxter County Planning Board if the board has its way with the Quorum Court.

District Court for Baxter County was June 23 and 26, 2008, before Judge Van Gearhart.

The Baxter County Quorum Court faces a light agenda when it meets at 6 p.m. today in the second-floor courtroom of the Baxter County Courthouse.

A judge ordered a woman accused of kidnapping a 16-month-old child at a day care to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

The eighth annual Red White and Blue Festival events postponed from Saturday will be at today.

An 18-year-old woman accused of kidnapping a 16-month-old boy from a Mountain Home day care has pleaded not guilty to the charges.