Stories from Friday, June 12, 2020

A 15-year-old boy perished and the 17-year-old driver was injured in a one-car crash on Highway 77, a half mile north of Highway 158. According to the Arkansas State Police report, around 11:36 p.m., Thursday, the 2013 GMC was northbound on Highway 77 when it ran off the right side of the road, striking a guard rail and bridge embankment. The vehicle overturned and came to rest at the bottom of the floodway relief, according to the report...

Churchill Buck Young of Rocky Mount, N.C., died June 11, 2020. She was born Dec. 16, 1921 in Blytheville, the fourth daughter of Judge Churchill Marlborough Buck and Elizabeth Blythe Buck.  Young was preceded in death by her parents and three older sisters, Annabeth Buck Wooten, Jane Blythe Buck Betts and Poly Ann Buck Williams...

Two trucks filled with boxes of food, including meat, dairy and produce, arrived in Blytheville on Tuesday. Lisa Willard, executive director of the Mississippi County Union Mission, expressed her appreciation for the food to be distributed throughout the county...