Stories from Wednesday, August 6, 2014

The Rev. Danny Rigney, senior pastor at Pathway Church of God, talked to members of the Blytheville Kiwanis Club at their July 23 meeting about the back-to-school project that is part of the Ignite Initiative, which Rigney chairs. The Ignite Initiative began in 2007 with its Boxes of Love, and Rigney said the back-to-school project includes supplies for Blytheville School District students entering the eighth grade and below. ...

Teachers gathered at the Blytheville Middle School library on Thursday for this year's New Teacher Boot Camp. The one-day camp is held for teachers both new to the district and new to the BMS campus and focuses on team-building exercises and allowing teachers to get acclimated to their new home...

The man accused of murdering Daniel Goodwin last July made his first court appearance Wednesday, after being extradited from an Indiana jail to Mississippi County earlier this week.

As the board chairman of the Mississippi County Hospital System, I want to respond to several recent public comments regarding the half-cent sales tax the hospitals are seeking.

Floyd D. Rose, 48, of Blytheville, died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Blytheville.

Leola Reed, 78, of Blytheville, died Aug. 1, 2014.

The Gosnell Pirates held Media Day on Wednesday.

Jason Commodore Smith, 45, of Wilson, died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, in Wilson.

Carolyn Hardesty Deichman, 66, of Blytheville, passed from this life Wednesday, July 30, 2014, at her home.

Zaxby's was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday night, according to a release from the Blytheville Police Department.

It only happens every 11 years, but an extra pay period is impacting the salary lines in the city of Blytheville's budget.