Boone County News

BOONE COUNTY, Ark., -- Arkansas authorities arrested a husband and wife Thursday after a complaint of child neglect.

FEMA may be able to check its new flood-risk maps for Boone County against some real flooding.

YELLVILLE - Arvest Bank, North Central Arkansas, recently donated proceeds from its 13th annual Arvest Charity Golf Tournament.

The 16th annual phone book recycling project is under way for Northern Arkansas Telephone Company customers in Marion and Boone counties.

Low branches thick with leaves held off the rain, but an old oak's canopy was no sanctuary for 16 head of cattle killed last week in Bergman.

HARRISON - The Northwest Arkansas Solid Waste Management District is in a race against the clock to have a plan in place by Aug.

NABORS Inc. of Mountain Home - a landfill and solid-waste hauling service owned by Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Marion, Newton and Searcy counties - has discovered ways to cut about $70,000 a month from its operating budget, Mountain Home Mayor David Osmon said Friday.

HARRISON - On the heels of six counties breaking away from a 10-county regional solid-waste management district, three of those counties now say they will seek to rejoin the regional district.

After being without essential air service for a year, the Boone County Arkansas Regional Airport may have a new airline.

Two Boone county Arkansas residents are facing charges of aggravated robbery and property theft.

Commercial air service will be returning to the Boone County Arkansas Regional Airport.

A man charged with first-degree murder in Boone County allegedly told his mother, "Momma, I really killed her," as he dropped off pets from the victim's home.

A Harrison teenager was killed early Sunday when his Toyota pickup overturned about a mile east of U.S. 65 in Boone County, according to an Arkansas State Police report.

A Truman man who started a string of Arkansas bank robberies in Bryant was sentenced to a lengthy prison term, Saline County Prosecuting Attorney Ken Casady said Tuesday.

A man sought in connection with the shooting death of an Omaha, Ark., woman earlier this week was taken into custody this morning in Galena.

A homicide investigation is underway in Boone County, Arkansas. Authorities say a woman was found dead in her home near Omaha, along the southern tip of Table Rock Lake.

Officials in three counties are discussing splitting and forming their own solid waste district, a few months after the district decided to take over management of the Baxter County landfill.