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Blytheville Police Reports, Dec. 18
(Local News ~ 12/18/15)
Thursday, Dec. 17 -- Police investigated a theft report ($8,000) at Lowe's -- Officers took fraudulent use of a debit card report. The offender made 22 transactions totaling $367. -- Officers took a report of a stove and refrigerator stolen from CPM, Inc...
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KIPP responds to student threat
(Local News ~ 12/18/15)
A KIPP Blytheville College Preparatory School student reportedly threatened, "to blow the school up" on Thursday. According to the police report, around 3:12 p.m. Thursday, the complainant told officers that two juvenile students got into a verbal altercation and the male student began throwing desks...
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County sales tax revenues up
(Local News ~ 12/18/15)
This November, Mississippi County's share of the 1-cent sales tax came to $112,335.95. Compared to last November's total of $111,131.13, Miss. Co is seeing an increase of $1,204.82, and a rise in total revenue of a little over $7,000 from October to November...
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Howl yes!
(Column ~ 12/18/15)
The Arkansas State Red Wolves Football team will be playing in their 13th all-time bowl game appearance and fifth consecutive bowl game, when on December 19 they face Conference USA member and former stAte nemesis Louisiana Tech in the 15th Annual R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl at the Superdome and on ESPN...
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Ronald Henexson
(Obituary ~ 12/18/15)
Mr. Ronald Dale Henexson, 72, of Blytheville, died Tuesday, Dec. 15th, 2015, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born June 12, 1943, in Pampa, Texas, to the late Roy Merle Henexson and Doris Tucker Henexson, he was a retired contractor after his time serving in the Army...
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Mary White
(Obituary ~ 12/18/15)
Mary White, 77, of Blytheville, passed away Friday, December 18, 2015 at Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett, Missouri. Arrangements are pending at this time and will be announced when completed. Cobb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements...
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Some slightly stronger than normal opinions...
(Column ~ 12/18/15)
As is traditional around here (and by "in here" I mean in my brain) I like to do a little roundup of Christmas music - the good, the bad, the really really terrible, the stuff that makes you cry. I find that if I'm having a little trouble getting into the Christmas Spirit it helps quite a lot to kind of force things by playing Christmas music all the time - and thanks to the magic of Pandora I can make that happen pretty much anywhere I go. ...
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Holiday season brings special dangers
(Local News ~ 12/18/15)
The holiday season, in addition to the wonderful things it brings to Blytheville area families, unfortunately also brings an increase in dangerous behaviors, such as driving while intoxicated, increased holiday drinking and violence, suicides and crimes, such as thefts and burglaries...
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Cindy Bass
(Obituary ~ 12/18/15)
Cindy Renae Williams Bass, 57, of Blytheville passed away Friday morning at home. She was born to Morris Elbert and Hazel Pauline Jewell Williams on September 23, 1958 in Turrell, Ark. Her family says she was a very out spoken person, very strong willed, a little firecracker! She also had a softer side and enjoyed writing poems and being near water which she found very relaxing. ...
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