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Blytheville Police Reports, Oct. 14
(Local News ~ 10/14/15)
The following are reports from the Blytheville Police Department. Monday, Oct. 12 -- Officers arrested an unruly student at Blytheville Middle School. -- Police took a harassment report in the 200 block of East Moultrie. -- Offices investigated a domestic battery in the 300 block of North Hollywood. ...
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Gosnell council discusses Westminster security
(Local News ~ 10/14/15)
Tuesday night, Westminster Village Executive Director Linda O'Guinn requested that the Gosnell City Council close one of the roads that lead into the community, as a way to combat recent crime. O'Guinn reported fifteen recent burglaries. The majority of the council was in disagreement with this solution, due to the disruption of traffic that closing that road would create. The question of emergency vehicles being able to access the area was also brought into question...
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Planning commission approves new cell tower
(Local News ~ 10/14/15)
Despite significant street address confusion created by the past annexation of land near the Senior Citizens Pond south of Chickasaw Plaza, the City of Blytheville will be receiving a new cell phone tower, and hopefully better cell phone reception in that part of the city...
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Leslie Boyce
(Obituary ~ 10/14/15)
Leslie B. Boyce, 67, of Osceola, passed away October 10, 2015 at Methodist Unversity Hospital in Memphis. Born January 18, 1948 in Lake Cormorant, Miss. to the the late Andrew Jack Staten and Eva Mosley Staten, she was a homemaker and member of Pleasant Grove M.B. Church...
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George Painter
(Obituary ~ 10/14/15)
George Wesley Painter Sr., 83, of Tyronza, passed away October 12, 2015 at Lexington Place Healthcare and Rehab in Jonesboro. Born June 22, 1932 in Grubbs to the late Horace Painter and Bertha House Painter, he was a retired construction worker, navy veteran, and was of the Pentecostal faith...
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Anastacia Simmons
(Obituary ~ 10/14/15)
Anastacia LaDawn Simmons, 27, of Florida, passed away September 26, 2015 in Decatur, Ga. Born on August 10, 1988 in Osceola to John (Kilticia) Tyms and Tekeshia (Tavirus Bell) Simmons, she worked in retail and was a member of Mt. Herman A.M.E. Church in Naranja, Fla...
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Carl Bishop
(Obituary ~ 10/14/15)
Mr. Carl Huston Bishop, 72, of Benton, departed this life on Sunday, October 11, 2015 in Benton, Ark. after a lengthy illness. He was a retired U.S. Air Force Veteran and had also served in the U.S. Navy. After retiring from the USAF, he was employed with Wehco Media, Inc. and was a member of the American Legion and a member of Masonic Lodge No. 134 in Blytheville...
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Karen Cassidy
(Obituary ~ 10/14/15)
Ms. Karen Sue Cassidy, 67, of Steele and formerly of Blytheville, died Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, October 17, 2015 in the Cobb Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends Saturday morning from 10 a.m. until service time. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.cobbfuneralhome.com . A full obituary is to follow...
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