Stories from Monday, June 13, 2016

A Blytheville Police Department was damaged by gunfire early Sunday morning, according to Police Chief Ross Thompson. At around 3:15 a.m. Sunday, police responded to a shots fired call in the area of Robindale Road and Hollywood Street. "While checking the area officers discovered damage to the bumper of a Blytheville Police Department vehicle," Thompson said in a press release. ...

As a legislator, there are some issues that I really feel the need to chime in on and one such issue is the dissipating conversation concerning race and race relations in our society. I do realize that racism is not an American problem, a city or state problem, or a district problem. Race Relations and Racism are a human problem...

Two men accused in the slaying of Yuri Mckeever were arraigned in Blytheville District Court on Monday. Michael Leeandre King, 21, and Michael Jackson, 24, face charges of capital murder, aggravated robbery and theft of property in last Wednesday's homicide on South First and the May 25 robbery at Peartree Apartments on South Ruddle...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- The Blytheville Hardy Sales and Service Casons went 1-1 on the weekend in the Charleston Tournament in Charleston, Mo. The Casons beat Sikeston, 7-0, on Saturday in the tournament, and they lost to Quincy on Sunday, 4-3. On Saturday, Blytheville led 7-0 after five innings and the work was done from there...

The following are reports from the Blytheville Police Department. -- Police arrested Jesse Hudson, 41, on charges of fleeing, driving on suspended license 7th and other traffic violations at Lake and Main streets. -- Police investigated a domestic battery report in the 900 block of South 19th Street...

Frederick Jackson Jr. was arraigned in Blytheville District Court on Monday, after an incident at Hollywood Mart on Wednesday that included an officer stopping a rolling car with a child inside it. Jackson, 26, faces charges of Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Firearm by Certain Person, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Endangering the Welfare of a Minor 3rd and Criminal Mischief 1st...

Ronnie Nance, 67, of Monette died Saturday, June 11, 2016, near Portageville, Mo. Born in Manila, he was the son of the late Junior Nance, was a 1966 graduate of Manila High School, and was employed as a truck driver for Crop Production Services. Ron had been a Monette resident for the past 12 years and was of the Pentecostal faith...

Doris Gean Rountree, 77, longtime Manila area resident and widow of Arthur Rountree, passed from this life, Monday, June 13, 2016, at the Monette Manor Nursing Center. Born in Leachville, she was the daughter of the late Willie Edward and Mary Ellen Kincaid Fleeman and had lived most of her life in the Brown Spur community. ...