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Fight sends GHS student to hospital
(Local News ~ 10/28/17)
A fight between two freshmen [a 15-year old and a 16-yeard old] at Gosnell High School around 3 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, as students were loading up onto school buses for their trip home, resulted in an autistic student being flow to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis and likely criminal charges being drawn up against the other...
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Students attend anti-drug summit
(Local News ~ 10/28/17)
Students in Mississippi County took part in an anti-drug, tobacco and alcohol summit on Friday at Arkansas Northeastern College. The summit included students from Blytheville, Armorel, Gosnell, Manila, Osceola and Rivercrest. Students from grades 10-12 attended the event, which lasted from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday...
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Races taking shape for county judge, sheriff
(Local News ~ 10/28/17)
Thursday night, Republicans Charles “Ken” Kennemore and John Alan Nelson announced their candidacy for Mississippi County Judge, while Blytheville Police Department Capt. Scott Adams said he is running as a GOP candidate for Mississippi County Sheriff...
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Dispatcher alleges firing was result of retaliation
(Local News ~ 10/28/17)
Elsa Harvey, a dispatcher for the Blytheville Police Department (BPD), has been terminated for what she insisted in a video interview with WREG Channel 3 [in Memphis, aired on Tuesday] was “retaliation” due to “sexual misconduct” by other BPD officers...
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We don’t just need more jobs, we need good jobs
(Editorial ~ 10/28/17)
“Hi ho, Hi ho, its off to work we go!” from the movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. “Another day another dollar,” by Wynn Stewart. “Its time to make the donuts,” Fred the Baker (played by actor Michael Vale) in commercials for Dunkin’ Donuts from 1981 to 1997...
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