Stories from Friday, May 2, 2014

Garry Dan Bunch, 62, of Manila passed from this life Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born in Leachville he was the son of the late George and Grace Hicks Bunch and had been a Manila resident for most of his life. ...

The Blytheville Police Department is looking for information regarding an aggravated robbery that took place Thursday morning at Mailboxes & Beyond on Main Street in Blytheville.

With the 3-4A district tournament going on this weekend, there was plenty of action at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex Thursday night. Here's a wrap up of the Cal Ripken League and ASA Softball action. CAL RIPKEN MINOR LEAGUE Lions 7, Family Eye Care 6...

In a tune up for their upcoming 1A-3 East district tournament, the Armorel Lady Tigers defeated the Blytheville Lady Chickasaws, 17-0, in three innings Thursday night at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. Brooke Trout and Madison Beal combined for a perfect three innings of work on the mound for Armorel. Trout struck out five of the six batters she faced while Beal fanned two of the three she faced in the third...

The Gosnell Pirates kept their season alive with a 12-2 win over the Highland Rebels Thursday night in the opening round of the 3-4A district tournament at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex in five innings. One year after the Rebels surprised Gosnell in an opening round loss, the host Pirates made sure they didn't suffer the same fate in 2014 -- veteran head coach Bret Jackson's final season...

Mr. Philip Ryan Washington passed away at his home Sunday, April 27, 2014.

Mrs. Cynthia Ann Mack, 59, of Ripley, Miss., died Saturday, April 26, 2014, in Tupelo Hospital in Tupelo, Miss.

Calvin Burton, 52, of Blytheville, died Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at Delta Medical Center in Memphis.

Mr. Garry Dan Bunch, 62, of Manila, passed from this life Wednesday April 30, 2014, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro.

Bill Walker's funeral is this afternoon, and I'll be there to bid him farewell. He'd whipped cancer a couple of different times before the effects of dementia finally took him down.

The Blytheville Wastewater Department is working on several projects related to the Milestone Study.

The annual Free Comic Book Day event will be held Saturday, and Arkham Comics of Blytheville is loading up to make this year one of the biggest years its ever had.

Legendary Elvis Presley tribute artist and Blytheville native Bill Haney will be sitting down for an interview Thursday, May 8, at the Ritz Civic Center to discusses his new book, "Bill Haney's Life Story and the Elvis Years," followed by his first performance in Blytheville in over a decade.

Blytheville Public Schools was awarded full accreditation from the AdvancED Accreditation Commission this week, which will be good through the 2019 school year.

Blytheville Parks and Recreation Director Elroy Brown likes the city's chances of receiving a $250,000 matching grant from the state.

Why did the Blytheville Courier News only print about Clayton Lockett's execution? Why didn't they and other news people print about how in 1999, Locket shot 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman and told another man to bury her alive? Lockett was also convicted of raping her friend in a violent home invasion that led to Neiman's death...

So I'm turning 30 in a few days (more on that later) and am currently experiencing a small existential crisis (more on that later, too).