Stories from Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The Arkansas Scholarship Lottery (ASL) is celebrating its fifth anniversary. ASL has raised $460 million helping more than 150,000 students at 47 different colleges and universities throughout Arkansas in just five years...

Dell Van Halfacre, 82, of Manila, died Monday, Oct. 27, 2014, at the Manila Nursing Center.

Betty Ruth Lester, 68, of Manila, passed away Tuesday Oct. 28, 2014, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

The accomplishments and accolades continue to pile up for Gosnell's Will Camp.

Main Street Blytheville will be hosting its third annual "Trick-or-Treating on Main" Friday evening in the historic downtown Blytheville area.

The Gosnell Pirates return home Friday night to face the Jonesboro Westside Warriors. The Pirates come into Friday night's game on the heels of their first loss of the season. Their 26-20 loss to Pocahontas snapped an 11-game conference winning streak and was the second of back-to-back games against league unbeatens...

Larry Katz, 95, of Blytheville, died early Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Dallas.

Abby Rigney (center) is the latest recipient of the Marvel Dickerson Memorial Grant, presented by Delta Kappa Gamma through Arkansas Northeastern College. Pictured with Rigney are Cynthia Sullivan of DKG and Ryan Perkins, education professor at ANC.

We all have that friend that maybe we don't hear from very often, but when we do, it's always something important and usually gets your undivided attention.

The Mississippi County Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Arkansas is promoting cancer prevention and a healthy lifestyle through nutrition and physical activity. The objective of the coalition is to reduce the proportion of adults who are obese from 39 percent to 35 percent by 2016.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Madison Bumgarner pitched five innings of near-perfect relief and the San Francisco Giants held off the Kansas City Royals 3-2 Wednesday night in Game 7 of the World Series for their third championship in five seasons. With both starters chased early, this became a matchup of bullpens. And no one stood taller than the 6-foot-5 Bumgarner, who added to his postseason legacy with a third victory this Series...