Stories from Friday, February 28, 2014

Mr. Thomas R. Yarch, 68, of Jonesboro died Wednesday, Feb 26, 2014 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

Mrs. Joyce Jackson, 70, of Leachville, former longtime Manila resident, the widow of Henry Wesley Jackson, died Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, at the Arkansas Methodist Medical Center in Paragould.

Mrs. Dora Gaye Ashabranner Mattheus, 88, of Manila, passed from this life Thursday Feb. 27, 2014, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro.

Mr. Steven Ray Clayton, 33, of Greenbrier, Ark., formerly of Leachville, died early Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.

Never known for her deftness of step, My Dear Sweet Sainted Wife managed to trip over her own feet Tuesday night and conk her head on the door jam of the bedroom closet.

On Thursday, the Southern Chorale, under the direction of Dr. Gregory Fuller, from the University of Southern Mississippi, will perform at 10 a.m. at the Adams-Vines Recital Hall at Arkansas Northeastern College.

Local attorney Dan Ritchey has been elected to serve as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of Arkansas Northeastern College.

With spring approaching in the coming weeks and daylight saving time on the horizon, the Blytheville Fire Department is using this time to urge people to prepare for the coming season at what it brings.

One person was taken to the hospital following this wreck along Highway 137 early Friday morning, according to reports.

Mississippi County Sheriff Dale Cook disputed an assertion by Blytheville Police officers that he was driving 100 mph on Airbase Highway, Friday night, on his way to a campaign stop at Sammy Williams Auctions, located at the old Quality Auto Sales in Gosnell.