Stories from Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Jency McMinn of Leachville has been named as March Employee of the Month at Monette Manor. Mrs. McMinn is a LPN and has been employed at Monette Manor for three and a half years. She is married to Lee McMinn and has a daughter, Harper...

ARMOREL--After facing some steep competition at the Woodlawn tournament over Spring Break, the Armorel Tigers returned to 1A-3 East conference action Tuesday night against Black Rock. The Tigers roared to a 20-0 win in four innings over the Zebras. Ashton Kennedy pitched three innings of no-hit ball for the Tigers and Nash Winters retired the Zebras in order in the fourth to combine for the shutout...

A golf tournament benefiting Chuck Wilder will be held Friday, April 18 at the Blytheville Country Club. Check in for the three-person scramble is 8 a.m. with tee off set for 8:30 a.m. The cost is $300 per team, which includes mulligans, a putting contest, longest drive and closest to the pin...

Mr. Johnny Mack Freeman, 68, of Osceola, died March 21, 2014, in Jonesboro.

Mrs. Alberta Rogers Daniel, 89, passed peacefully away Sunday, March 30, 2014, at Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro.

The news last week that football players at Northwestern University had won the first battle in their quest to form a labor union is but the latest in an ongoing debate about paying college athletes.

More than three dozen students from Blytheville NewTech High School's Foreign Language Department are the Arts Council of Mississippi County's featured artists for the month of April at the Ritz Civic Center, located in Downtown Blytheville.

TRUMANN--The Gosnell Pirate baseball and Lady Pirate softball teams both posted sweeps over the Trumann Wildcats with the baseball team winning handily, 10-0 and 13-1 while the girls won in convincing fashion, 6-2 and 11-0. Meanwhile, at Paragould, the Blytheville Chickasaws (0-4 AAAAA-East, 4-6 overall) were defeated by the host Rams 12-0 and 8-0 in a 5A-East conference doubleheader on Tuesday. ...