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Photo: Rachel Renee Harrelson A Flippin woman facing drug-related charges appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Monday. Rachel Renee Harrelson was arrested in

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Jacob Swadley Jacob Swadley, one of three members of the Swadley family arrested on drug charges in late November last year, appeared in Baxter County Circuit

Photo: James Edward Tyler Davis One of the two men charged with the June 2019 murder of 20-year-old Tyler Wade Pickett of Mountain Home appeared in Baxter County Court Thursday. Twenty-seven-year-old James Edward Tyler Davis of Norfork and 38-year-old Jeffery Scott Shepherd of Mountain Home were both charged with first-degree murder and battery in connection with Pickett’s death. Photo: Jeffery Scott Shepherd Davis appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court by way of a video hookup from the Varn...

Photo: Gregory Mayfield A Federal Court judge has dismissed all but two of Gregory Mayfield’s many claims alleging ill treatment while he was an inmate in the Baxter County jail. The 21-year-old Mayfield of Mountain Home is incarcerated in the Varner Unit of the state prison system on earlier charges. The lawyer for the four defendants in the case, all employees of the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office/Detention Center, filed a motion for summary judgment in late August last year asking that a...