Stories from Friday, March 15, 2019

With basketball season over for all local teams the season awards were announced. For the Blytheville Chickasaws, five players received awards throughout the 2018-2019 basketball season. Senior forward Winston Peace was selected to the All- NEA tournament team, All-State and All-Conference. ...

Blytheville police are searching for 20-year-old Cameron Wells who has been connected to several violent incidents in the community, according to Lt. John Frazier, the Blytheville Police Department CID commander. “Cameron is considered to be armed and dangerous,” Frazier said. “Please use caution.”...

On Tuesday the United States Air Force and Army met in Blytheville on the runways of the old Eaker Air Force Base for a two-day joint training session. Lieutenant Colonel Eric Volk explained that the training was being done at the Arkansas Aeroplex on Tuesday involved planes coming into Blytheville from all over the world and the training would include simulations for large HIMARS, highly-mobile artillery rocket systems, which are large vehicles that carry multiple-launch rocket systems...