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Osceola resident files complaint against Wallace
(Local News ~ 10/01/16)
An already spirited campaign for the District 22 state senator position has become even more heated with a second Ethics Commission complaint being filed within the last 10 days, this time against Rep. Dave Wallace. Boyd Thomas, an Osceola resident and self-admitted "volunteer for the Democratic Party," filed a complaint against Wallace last Thursday with the Ethics Commission in Little Rock. ...
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Car flipped and driver airlifted
(Local News ~ 10/01/16)
Blytheville Police Chief Ross Thompson has confirmed a single car accident occurred around midnight Friday night on South Highway 61 [Division] near McHaney Drive in front of Pafford EMS. He was unable to confirm the number of passengers in the vehicle or the extent of their injuries, but did confirm that the driver is being airlifted from the scene...
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William Terry Jones Sr.
(Obituary ~ 10/01/16)
Mr. William Terry Jones, Sr., 70, of Blytheville, passed away on Sunday, September 25, 2016 in Herimdale, Missouri. Born on July 21, 1946, in Osceola to the late Pete Jones and the late Helen Sexton Jones, he was a retired mechanic and a Vietnam Army Veteran. He was also a member of VFW Post 24 and a member of the Southern branch NAACP...
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Nettie Louise Smith
(Obituary ~ 10/01/16)
Mrs. Nettie Louise Smith, 80, of Tyronza, passed away on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at home. Born on June 1, 1936, in Waterloo, Ala., to the late John Robert Wood and the late Lady Jewell Allison Wood. She was a member of the Upper Room Apostolic Church in Tyronza...
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Mrs. Ann C. Kuykendall
(Obituary ~ 10/01/16)
Mrs. Ann C. Kuykendall, 82, of Blytheville, died on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at Well Star Cobb Hospital in Austell, Ga. She was born in Widener, Ark. to Mr. Emery Stinnett and Mrs. Rosanna U. Bane. She moved to Blytheville as a very young child and was reared by her aunt, Rosie Allen, and her brother Ellis was reared here by another aunt, Bertha Stinnett. ...
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John Robert Hoskins
(Obituary ~ 10/01/16)
Mr. John Robert Hoskins, age 57, of Keiser, passed from this life on Tuesday, September 27, 2016 at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis. Born in Three Rivers, Mich., he was the son of the late Robert Hoskins and a 1976 graduate of Three Rivers High School. He was a U.S. Army veteran and was retired from Universal Steel in Grenada, Miss. where he worked as a welder. He also enjoyed fishing and working on trucks...
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Clayton Mull
(Obituary ~ 10/01/16)
Mr. Clayton Mull, 57, of Blytheville, died on Monday, September 20, 2016 in Little Rock. Mr. Mull is survived by his wife, Annette Mull; His mother, Shirley Bailey; Four children, Katherine Lindsey Mull, Shelby Harris, Richard Moore and Samuel Black;...
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James Robert "Bobby" Crowell
(Obituary ~ 10/01/16)
Mr. James Robert "Bobby" Crowell, 72, of Blytheville, passed away on Friday, September 30, 2016 at his home. Bobby was born in Kennett to James E. and Gladys (Thomason) Crowell. He was a retired employee of Motor Appliances and Randall Company. He also attended Harvest Fellowship Church in Manila. Bobby loved to hunt, fish and read his Bible...
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Warren taken into custody
(Local News ~ 10/01/16)
According to Blytheville Police Department CID Commander Scott Adams, Rakeem Warren has been arrested on a first degree battery warrant from 2015. According to Adams, Warren is also wanted in connection to the April 8 shooting of Reginald Thomas. Officers spotted Warren, who fled on foot before BPD K-9 officer "Nico" tracked the offender down, finding him hiding in a shed behind an abandoned house...
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How to respond to all this crime
(Column ~ 10/01/16)
Hall of Fame football coach Lou Holtz teaches, "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." "Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it." That begs the question of what our response has been...
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