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One of four suspects in the killing of 35-year-old Mountain Home resident Cody Stradford appeared Thursday in Baxter County Circuit for hearing regarding bond and whether shed hired an attorney. Allison June Cunningham faces charges of first-degree murder, second-degree battery, kidnapping, arson and being a felon in possession of a firearm. She is being held in the Baxter County Jail in lieu of a $1 million bond. In January, Cunningham appeared in court and told Circuit Court Judge John Putma...

Photo: Michael Cody Everett A Clarkridge man accused of making and exploding homemade pipe bombs at his residence appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. Thirty-six-year-old Michael Everett was booked into the Baxter County Detention Center July 17 last year and charged with criminal possession of explosive material, criminal use of prohibited weapons (bombs), three counts of possession of firearms by a felon, possessing drug paraphernalia and three counts of endangering the welfare o...

Photo: Casey Dillan Lawson A 20-year-old rural Mountain Home man, who is alleged to have assaulted his mother, leaving her with serious injuries, made a second unsuccessful try at entering a guilty plea to his charges during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. In late September, the plea taking came off the rails when Casey Dillan Lawson could not stop laughing as the facts behind his charges were read. According to court records, Lawson has dealt with significant mental health i...

Photo: Noah Lee Lawhead A motorcycle rider who led police on a high-speed chase that began in Gassville, continued through a large swath of Mountain Home and ended at a closed bridge in Missouri — about 24 miles up Arkansas Highway 201 North – appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. Twenty-year-old Noah Lee Lawhead of rural Mountain Home is charged with felony fleeing and a number of traffic violations. He changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to six years probation. The se...

Photo: Randall E. King The biological father of a 5-month-old baby suspected of being a victim of child abuse appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court earlier this month. Thirty-six-year-old Randall E. King of rural Mountain Home entered a no contest plea to charges of endangering the welfare of a minor in the first degree. He was placed on four years probation. The mother of the child, 35-year-old Desiree Marie Daniels, is due to appear in circuit court on Jan. 14. The two children in the famil...

Photo: Anthony Wayne Thurman An argument between boyfriend and girlfriend turned violent on Dec. 1 when the man fired at the woman with a shotgun. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Wayne Thurman appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a not guilty plea to the charges against him stemming from the incident. He also asked Circuit Judge John Putman to lift the no contact order put in place after the incident to keep the couple apart. The judge denied the request. T...

Photo: Anthony Wayne Thurman An argument between boyfriend and girlfriend turned violent on Dec. 1 when the man fired at the woman with a shotgun. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Wayne Thurman appeared during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a not guilty plea to the charges against him stemming from the incident. He also asked Circuit Judge John Putman to lift the no contact order put in place after the incident to keep the couple apart. The judge denied the request. T...