Mountain Home News

The Mountain Home Planning Commission meeting is set 1 p.m. Monday in City Hall.

A 20 year old Mountain Home man has been arrested on felony charges of Rape and Sexual Assault in the 4th Degree following an investigation into allegations of sexual contact between the man and two juvenile females, one aged 14 and one aged 13 at the time the incidents occurred.

A Thursday morning fire destroyed one unit in a duplex on Tipton Loop in Mountain Home, but firefighters were able to save the second unit, according to a Mountain Home Fire Department news release.

The executive director of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery will be in Mountain Home today speaking about the state's new lottery, which generated about $50 million in sales of instant tickets during its first month, state officials say.

A three-vehicle wreck early Tuesday morning killed a Mountain Home woman, but no one else was hurt.

Area law enforcement released names and addresses of sex offenders living in Baxter County in an effort to increase public safety.

A Mountain Home woman escaped a car fire Monday that started about 10:30 a.m. when the leaves underneath the vehicle caught fire.

District court for the city of Mountain Home was held Oct. 20 and 22, 2009, before Judge Van Gearhart.

Arkansas will join 30 other states in offering Powerball Lottery to its residents, and that may mean a $53 million winner today.

With the addition of a 'Warrants' page to the Baxter County sheriff's office Web site last week, both primary law enforcement agencies for the Mountain Home area now display online names of area persons with active warrants for their arrest.

A Mountain View man who was trapped in his car after a Friday crash was listed in good condition Monday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A new gallery of submitted photos from Mountain Home Parks and Recreation's Trunk or Treat event has been posted.

The Mountain Home Tax-Aide Program needs volunteers with experience in tax preparation, bookkeeping, accounting, banking, finance or related backgrounds to participate in the program, which provides free income tax assistance to citizens in the community by preparing federal and state income tax returns.

Two women were killed Sunday morning driving west on U.S. Highway 62, according to an Arkansas State Police news release.

District court for the city of Mountain Home was held Oct. 13, 2009, before Judge Van Gearhart.

Three Mountain Home residents charged with methamphetamine offenses after a three-month undercover investigation pleaded not guilty when arraigned in Baxter County Circuit Court on Thursday, Two of the three - John Douglas Sigmin, 56, and David Junior Pemberton, 54 - are free on bond while the third, Virginia R. Willett, 32, remains incarcerated.

Richard, Kahlan and Zedd race to find a duplicate copy of the Book of Counted Shadows before Darken Rahl gets his hands on it.

For the second time in five months, accused arsonist Anthony Scott Payne lost a bid Thursday to have his $500,000 bond reduced after a Mountain Home detective described him as volatile and a potential threat to the victim.

A Faulkner County man is jailed in Baxter County after sheriff's deputies say a drunk driver took a three-mile ride going the wrong way on the US 62/412 Bypass and later crashed into a brick column on a nearby college campus.

A 24-year-old man from Mountain Home, Ark., is dead, and investigators say drinking may be to blame.