Stories from Thursday, June 5, 2014

Allen Wayne Holt, age 68, of Manila, died Tuesday June 3, 2014, at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born in Manila to the late Robert and Irene Hale Holt he had been a lifelong area resident and was a retired heavy equipment operator...

The Healing in the Hood Youth Basketball league begins at 8 a.m. Saturday. There will be a four-game jamboree at Chickasaw Gym to kick off the season. The league is for children in grades 5-11. Team sponsorships and coaching opportunities are available. Parents are encouraged to participate...

JONESBORO--The Blytheville Hardy Sales and Service Casons defeated the Jonesboro Riceman, 6-2, Tuesday afternoon. The Casons (1-2) scored a run in the second, four in the fourth and added an insurance run in the top of the seventh. Tay Hopper allowed just three hits with the only two runs allowed coming in the second inning. Hopper retired 13 of the final 15 batters he faced...

Wednesday was a night for make up games and league tournaments at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. Cal Ripken Major League played their Final Four with Farm Bureau and Rotary surviving and advancing to the leagues double elimination championship round beginning Thursday night...

Mrs. Geneva Adella Mays, 88, of Steele, Mo., died Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Mr. James "Jimmy" Hoy, 82, of Blytheville, died Friday, May 30, 2014, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville.

Mr. Allen Wayne Holt, 68, of Manila, died Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville.

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 24 would like to thank all those that wore our poppies and donated to the veterans in the hospital. The donations that were given will bring crafts for those that are disabled and need something to keep them from the loneliness and helplessness they feel...

Cancer doesn't care. It matters not if you're black, white, blue, green, male, female, rich or poor.

Early voting for the Republican ticket's runoff election for Arkansas attorney general is ongoing at the courthouses in Blytheville and Osceola.

The city of Blytheville has submitted several Requests for Admission to Mississippi County in a lawsuit over jail fees.

The Blytheville community was littered with downed trees, limbs and power lines after a brief storm that blew through the area Thursday afternoon, but no injuries have been reported.

Two people were killed by falling trees in northeast Arkansas on Thursday as a storm system ripped through the area, damaging homes and businesses and causing widespread power outages.