Stories from Monday, January 16, 2017

Marcella Duggur Vick, 81, of Pocahontas, passed from this life Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born at Olive Hill, Tenn., she was the daughter of the late Harve Edward and Virgie Belle Phillips Downing and was raised in the Lost Cane community near Manila. ...

The Blytheville Chickasaws (11-6, 5-3) will host the nationally ranked Jonesboro Hurricane (16-0, 8-0) on Tuesday night in a 6A/5A-East battle. The Hurricanes is ranked 19th in the nation and second in the state of Arkansas, behind Mills University Studies in Little Rock. The Chickasaws will be coming into the matchup ranked 18th in the state of Arkansas...