Stories from Saturday, September 12, 2015

Jo Ann Henton announced her candidacy for the position of District 7 Justice of the Peace on the Mississippi County Quorum Court Thursday morning. Henton and her husband, Blytheville School Board member Gene Henton, are both longtime educators in the Blytheville area. ...

American motorists have lately been enjoying an unexpectedly extended drop in fuel prices. According to the website gasbuddy.com, the average price per gallon of gas in the United States on Thursday morning is $2.41 and the Arkansas average is $2.09. Just one year ago the national average per gallon of gas was $3.44 and two years ago it was $3.57...

By AARON FITZPATRICK Blytheville Courier News OSCEOLA-The extra week may have been worth the wait for the Gosnell Pirates. With no opponent in week one of the 2015 schedule, the Pirates had an extra week to prepare for the Osceola Seminoles and took advantage of it to the tune of a 49-7 drubbing of their south county rival Friday night...

Demekko Clark is so fast that even his shoes can't keep up with him. The dynamic Blytheville back took a screen pass 73 yards to the house Friday night-- with the final 60 coming up the right sideline after he lost a shoe, sending the home crowd and the Chickasaw bench into a frenzy...