Multiple phone outages have been reported across Mountain Home this morning, including at Baxter Regional Medical Center and its clinics.The outages are also affecting calls into and out of the office and studio here at KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot.
This story will be updated once service is restored.
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UPDATE: Windstream has updated the Twin Lakes Area that repairs have yet to begin on a cut line in the Pyatt area. A company spokesperson says repair personnel do not have access to the site of the damage because of flooding at Crooked Creek. A technician is monitoring the situation and repairs will begin as soon as possible.
EARLIER STORY: Windstream is confirming that a fiber cable has been cut, apparently causing multiple telephone outages and problems across the area. Telephone service, fax service, calls from cell phones to land lines and calls from land lines to cell phones will have issues until the cable is repaired.
Photo: Penny Sue Tucker, Carl Luebken and Crystal Allen.
Three people have been charged for paddling an Izard County woman, including her sister who demanded her sister be released from the hospital because they needed her money. Thirty-five-year-old Carl Luebken, 34-year-old Crystal Allen and the women’s sister, 61-year-old Penny Sue Tucker, are facing two felonies each in connection with the abuse.
According to the probable cause affidavit from the Izard County Sheriff’s Office, they were first notified of the abuse by the Mountain Home Police Department after they were contacted by officials from Baxter Regional Medical Center. When the victim was being admitted for another condition, hospital personnel witnessed bruising on the the victim’s buttock.
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James Seawell
A man who once rode his old bicycle into the Mountain Home Walmart and rode out with a new one while allegedly proclaiming he was a police officer made an appearance in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday.
Fifty-two-year-old James John Seawell of Mountain Home entered a guilty plea to charges in the bicycle case and two drug-related cases.
He was sentenced to five years in prison by Circuit Judge John Putman.
Seawell was last arrested on drug charges in December 2020 when he was found to be in possession of methamphetamine. He was also arrested September 12 last year for possessing drugs and paraphernalia used to ingest drugs.