Stories from Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Power has been restored to nearly all Entergy customers; MCEC still has about 150 outages.

The Mississippi County Black Cultural Association will be celebrating its 24th Annual Black History program at 3 p.m. Sunday at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, 920 S. Lake Street in Blytheville. The Rev. Theodis Rucker is pastor of the church...

A Blytheville man is charged with six counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly tried to run over a group of people with his vehicle. Friday at 5:12 p.m., police were called to the 1000 block of South Lilly for a report of people fighting. When police arrived, they found no one fighting and left the scene...

The recent ice storm kept area students out of school for several days.

New exhibit open at Ritz Gallery

There were 458 early votes cast for today's special election, according to the Mississippi County clerk's office. Blytheville voters are considering a 1/4-cent tax to replace two sunsetting 1/8-cent taxes. According to an ordinance passed last month by the Blytheville City Council, the estimated $730,000 a year from the permanent tax would be used exclusively for the Blytheville police and fire departments...

The town of Yarbro is receiving water from the City of Blytheville, according to Steve Burghart of the Arkansas Department of Health. "Apparently, they had trouble getting power or finding a generator during the recent ice storm," Burghart said. The town's water treatment facility was without power long enough to affect the water supply, he said...

Blytheville police are investigating several residential thefts that occurred over the weekend, according to reports from the Criminal Investigative Division. Saturday at 12:25 p.m., Charlie Crigger reported to police that his home in the 4400 block of East Main had been broken into and several items were missing. ...