Stories from Monday, October 21, 2019

City of Blytheville Public Works crews are busy Monday morning removing fallen trees from two streets in Blytheville. The early Monday morning storm caused trees to fall and block Birch Street and Country Club near 10th Street. No injuries have been reported...

No injuries were reported in a Blytheville School District bus accident Monday morning. According to Blytheville assistant police chief Ricky Jefferson, no children were on the bus at the time it went into the ditch on East Highway 18 near Tractor Supply...

Teddy Don Cochran, 80, of Dyess, formerly of Leachville, passed from this life Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in Leachville, he was the son of the late Basil and Mable Atwood Cochran and had been a longtime resident of Memphis, Tenn. While in Memphis, he was the owner/operator of Dunlap Street Used Auto Parts. Since returning to northeast Arkansas in 2007, he has been affiliated with Osceola Iron and Metal Recycling Company. Ted enjoyed working, spending time around the shop and was a member of New Life Tabernacle in Wilson. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by five brothers and five sisters.. ...