Stories from Thursday, April 10, 2014

ARMOREL--The Armorel Tigers stayed perfect in the 1A-3 East after a 10-0 shutout over the Bay Yellowjackets in five innings Wednesday night at Billy Brown-Hugh Don Ashmore Field. Ashton Kennedy pitched a three-hit shutout for the Tigers. Kennedy struck out eight and allowed just one walk and three hits over five complete innings of work to pick up the win...

5A-East conference powers, the Nettleton Raiders and Lady Raiders, came into town and swept doubleheaders in both baseball and softball Wednesday night at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. The Raiders won 10-0 and 14-1 in baseball and 20-2 and 16-0 in softball...

Mrs. Martha Lavelle Weathers, 84, of Etowah, died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at South Mississippi County Regional Medical Center in Osceola.

Bobby Pate, 67, of Leachville, died Wednesday, April 9, 2014m at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

Ms. Mary L. Hurd, 67, of Osceola, died Friday, April 4, 2014.

Abbie Criddle, 65, of Leachville, died Wednesday. April 9, 201,4 at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

Mr. Rupert M. "Buzz" Crafton, 80, of Blytheville, passed away earlier today at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis.

Mr. Harvey Lee Blagg, 65, of Marked Tree, died Tuesday, April 8, 2014, in Marked Tree.

Weather permitting, the local recreational baseball season will get under way Monday night. There's no better place to be on a spring evening than the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. The atmosphere is second to none.

KIPP Blytheville College Preparatory School recently had two eighth-grade students achieve significant academic and extra-curricular accomplishments.

The search-and-rescue operation which has been ongoing at the Mississippi River near the Kinder Morgan terminal since Tuesday is bring changed to a search-and-recovery effort.

Authorities on Thursday called off the search for two men who fell off a Mississippi River barge that overturned in northeastern Arkansas earlier this week, saying both are presumed to have been killed.