Stories from Thursday, December 29, 2016

Police are asking for the public's help in solving a commercial burglary last Thursday at Hays Grocer on West Moultrie. According to Capt. Scott Adams, around 4:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 22, police responded to an alarm at the grocery store. "When officers arrived they observed a large store front window (valued at approximately $2,000.00) on the northwest side of the building had been broken out," Adams said. ...

According to Blytheville Police CID Commander Scott Adams, multiple gunshots were fired in the 2100 block of McHaney Thursday afternoon. Marcus Gentry, age unknown at this time, has been arrested in connection with the shooting. The only injury reported was an unnamed woman that fell at the scene. She was examined by ambulance personnel and was not taken to the hospital...

Blytheville police are investigating the city's 10th homicide of the year. Michael Treman Harris, 26, was fatally shot in the 900 block of South 19th Street around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to Capt. Scott Adams, the CID commander. "Officers processed the scene and spoke with several neighbors including some family members of the victim," Adams said. "Harris body will be sent to the Arkansas State Medical Examiner's office for official cause of death."...

Author and journalist Hal Borland once said, "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning -- but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." Life at times seems to merely creep on, with excruciating monotony and routine. At times milestones, change and accomplishment seem to visit but only a few times in our life. ...