Marion County News

A Mountain Home police traffic stop of a Harrison man for a cracked windshield Monday resulted in his arrest on felony drug charges and an outstanding Marion County felony warrant.

YELLVILLE - The city of Yellville is planning its first City of Yellville Christmas Parade on Dec, 6, in conjunction with the Tour of Homes hosted by the Marion County Christian Women and Christmas on the Square.

On a sunny, breezy bluff deep in Marion County, the Buffalo National River flowing serenely into the distance below, the old H.M. and Ardyce Harris house Friday became an environmental field station in honor of George L. Harp, retired professor of environmental sciences at Arkansas State University at Jonesboro.

YELLVILLE - The first Coats for Kids program sponsored by Marion County Single Parent Scholarship Fund and city of Yellville is under way.

Area law enforcement are looking for a vehicle believed to be involved in the theft of 28 head of cattle in the Peel area in Marion County.

'We've conducted almost all the school clinics and are down to Mountain Home,' said Baxter County Health Unit Administrator Judy Cochran.

BULL SHOALS - Bull Shoals Police Chief Dave Hotchkiss said Tuesday that, even though the investigation into the deaths of two men at a Bull Shoals grocery store Oct.

YELLVILLE - Marion County Quorum Court members adopted ordinances to amend the current county budget at this week's regular monthly meeting, including $252,750 in reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Baxter and Marion county health departments and schools are gearing up for massive numbers of flu vaccinations during the next two weeks, and area clinics are running short of seasonal flu vaccines.

Nine years ago, Jimmy Lane asked a girl at the Turkey Trot street dance to dance with him.

Four suspects have been arrested in a three-month-long narcotics investigation in Baxter County.

BULL SHOALS - Bull Shoals Police Chief Dave Hotchkiss said Thursday that state and local law enforcement agencies may complete their investigation next week into Monday's gunshot deaths of two men at a Bull Shoals grocery store.

UPDATE Tuesday 6, 2009: Marion County Press Release: Sheriff Roger Vickers reports: The investigation continues in an apparent "murder-suicide" that occurred at the Harps Grocery, in Bull Shoals, Arkansas .

A man whose wife quit her job at Harps Market in Bull Shoals last week walked into the store Monday and killed the store manager before shooting himself to death, authorities said Tuesday.

Bull Shoals - Marion County Sheriff Roger Vickers says a man who apparently shot and killed a food store manager and himself apparently wanted the manager to apologize to his wife.

The investigation continues in an apparent murder-suicide that occurred at Harps Grocery on Monday evening.

Marion County Sheriff's Department tells KARK around 5:00 p.m. Monday afternoon, 41 year old Tim Dilday went into the Harp's Grocery Store in Bull Shoals.

FLIPPIN - The Flippin Police Department recently arrested three people on drug charges.

OAKLAND - A town hall meeting for Oakland area residents is scheduled 6 p.m. Oct.

A Pyatt area couple was arrested Friday on charges of manufacturing marijuana. Ron Gilliland, 66, and Joanna Gilliland, 64, were arrested after authorities in helicopters found about 10 marijuana plants growing in pots in their backyard and numerous others hanging up to dry inside the residence, according to a Marion County Sheriff's Office news ...