Stories from Friday, July 20, 2012

Recent reports from the Blytheville Police Department:

Mr. James Kellum, 79, formerly of Osceola, died Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at River Oaks Nursing Center in Steele

Mrs. Martha Virginia Jones-Gilmore, 80, was born Jan. 6, 1932, in Monette, to Isaac and Zola Jones.

June 9, 2012, we had our ninth annual "Cars & Cycles Against Cancer" car and bike show, in conjunction with Northeast Mississippi County Relay For Life, at the Blytheville Aeroplex. If you missed this event, you missed a lot of food and fun and some really nice cars and bikes, along with the Sports Car Club of America!...

Granddaughters Alexandra and Leah-Bo showed up Saturday night, just in time to give me a good excuse to stay off the golf course Sunday (bless their hearts).

The Blytheville School Board met briefly Thursday night where it approved personnel recommendations from Superintendent Richard Atwill.

In the recent case of questioned absentee ballots from Mississippi County's June runoff election, the office of Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington has appointed H.G. Foster to serve as special prosecutor.

Responders from the Blytheville Police Department, Mississippi County Sheriff's Department, Arkansas State Police and ambulance services teamed up Thursday afternoon to search several ditches in Blytheville, after receiving reports of a body being seen in one of them.

The woman who apparently shared a holding cell with a man last Friday at the Blytheville Police Department Detention Facility is "looking into getting an attorney."

Main Street Blytheville is gearing up to give the go-ahead for demolition to start on the old Hoops Drive-In lot.

Area law enforcement are still on the lookout for two Arkansas Department of Corrections inmates who escaped from their work release jobs Wednesday evening.

Main Street Blytheville officially hired its new executive director Thursday.

This week's Pet of the Week at the Blytheville Humane Society is "Snooker," a young male Domestic Short Hair cat. Snooker is up-to-date with routine shots. For more information, call the Humane Society at 870-838-5512 or send email to humanesocietyofblytheville@hotmail.com.