Stories from Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Assistant Superintendent Kevin Evans gave the Gosnell School Board a report regarding the district's curriculum, literacy and instruction on Monday evening. Evans said that curriculum represented the very substance of an education and what students are taught; including the books and articles they read, the topics, concepts and skills they learn and the assignments they are given...

Blytheville Mayor James Sanders spoke at the Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon Monday afternoon about the city's budgeting process, his plan for a new proposed 10-year ½ cent Public Safety Tax and how desperately the Blytheville Police and Fire departments need raises...

Blytheville police have arrested one of the two suspects in Wednesday night's armed robbery of Las Palmas Tienda Mexicana, 824 East Main, according to Capt. Scott Adams.