Stories from Friday, July 1, 2022

Tommy Wayne Wagner Sr., 76, of Manila, passed away June 30, 2022, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Wayne was born in Manila on Feb. 19, 1946, to the late Oscar Bryan "O.B." Wagner and Bertha Griffin Wagner. He was a member of the Manila First United Methodist Church for many years. Wayne was a 1964 graduate of Manila High School and a graduate of Arkansas State University, the University of Kentucky, and later received his law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law...

A Blytheville man lost his life in a three vehicle accident Thursday evening. Dontrel Washington, 27, was killed when his vehicle, a 2010 Pontiac G6, was traveling in the wrong direction on I-55. According to the Arkansas State Police, a 2016 Toyota RAV4 driven by Stuart Cuvillier, of Washington, Iowa, was traveling southbound on I-55 in the left-hand lane near the 28-mile marker. ...