Stories from Saturday, August 10, 2013

I am continually asked about the Paws in Prison project that we have been working on for well over a year.

The Blytheville Chickasaws held their "Media Day" Friday afternoon at Haley Field. The Chicks are coming off one of their most disappointing seasons in recent memory in 2012.

Box seats and reserved seats for the 2013 Blytheville Chickasaw football season are on sale.

Vergie Hart Reeves, 94, of Fayetteville, passed from this life Thursday, Aug. 8, 2013, at Washington Regional Hospital in Fayetteville.

Marion Jones, 37, of Osceola, died Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at Crittendon Hospital in West Memphis.

Reginald "Shane" Warner Handerson, 74, of Blytheville, passed away peacefully on Thursday evening in NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro.

Grass and trash fires are down this summer, and officials attribute that in part to the rainy weather.

The city of Blytheville is applying for a $1.4 million grant to fund a facility that would serve as both a fire station and storm shelter on West Main Street.

Blytheville Public School teachers getting ready for their first year with the district visited a few local hotspots Friday as they began to acclimate themselves with the community -- many for the first time.

Blytheville Fire Chief Mike Carney sees the recently adopted and slightly modified Ordinance 1748 as an instrument to prevent fires and, in turn, losses of lives and property.

Personnel with Operation Healthy Delta helped several patients to get connected with Veterans Affairs on Friday, realizing they were eligible for benefits they were not receiving.