Stories from Friday, September 25, 2009

A Blytheville prisoner ran from the Blytheville District Courtroom Wednesday afternoon, injuring another prisoner and a jailer, before being captured a short time later by police. Johnny Farmer, 19, of Blytheville, fled the court room when Jailer Steve Lewis attempted to handcuff him for transport to the Mississippi County Jail...

GOSNELL -- Tense moments followed an apparent shooting Thursday morning in Gosnell, according to reports from the Gosnell Police Department. At 9:30 a.m., a female victim and her father arrived at the Gosnell Police Station to report that they had just been shot at by a female who lived at the 500 block of South Brucks Circle. ...

A Utah-based candle company and their local representative are teaming up with Great River Medical Center to help encourage women to have a mammogram during October. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so For Every Home, a company that began in a Utah kitchen that has grown to one of the country's largest distributor of candles and other items, is providing a scented candle for each woman who receives a mammogram during October...

A Blytheville teenager is being held in the Mississippi County Jail with a $200,000 bond, accused of shooting at his father and another man on Saturday in Blytheville, according to a report from the Blytheville Police Department. Erik Hise, 19, was arrested after police went to a residence in the 700 block of Putting Green Drive at 5:30 a.m. ...

Two separate accidents have claimed the lives of two Mississippi County residents in a 24-hour period according to authorities who investigated the accidents. Wednesday at 11:47 a.m., emergency personnel were dispatched to a two-vehicle accident at West Keiser and Country Club Road in Osceola...