Stories from Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Big Lake Wildlife Management Area will receive more than $1.7 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency cleanup costs associated with last January's ice storm, U.S. Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, announced Tuesday, part of $3.3 million headed to Arkansas in response to the January 2009 storm...

Master Gardeners Mylinda Nelson, Mark Moseley and Pam Blankenship spoke about the Mississippi County Master Gardeners program and the group's projects Tuesday at the Blytheville Lions Club's first meeting of 2010. Master Gardeners are volunteers for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, working for the betterment of the community as well as for their own pleasure. ...

Ark. (AP) -- The murder trial of a Blytheville man for the death of a pregnant woman has been set to begin Jan. 12. Mississippi County Circuit Judge Victor Hill set the date Monday for 21-year-old Justin Mangum in the Jan. 25, 2009, shooting death of 24-year-old Sonya Stokes...

Braniah Quorlexia Denise Robinson was the first baby born in Mississippi County in 2010. She was born at 3:20 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, at Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Braniah weighed 6 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 19 inches long. She is the daughter of Denise Harris and Brandon Robinson of Osceola...