Stories from Thursday, September 4, 2014

Former Blytheville all-state receiver Greg McKillion makes a one-handed catch in this August 2011 photo. These days, the 6-foot-5, 225-pound McKillion suits up for the Memphis Tigers, playing wide receiver.

This weekend the Internet was taken by storm when a hacker broke into several celebrities' iCloud accounts and stole private photos and videos. As a journalist, self-proclaimed tech geek and Apple fanboy, I've been keeping tabs on this recent celebrity leak situation.

Before each offensive snap in Friday's AAA Benefit game with Helena-West Helena Central, Blytheville head coach Ben Fisher and his staff rushed players to the line to get off the next play. Fisher noticed the frenzied pace seemed to affect the bigger, athletic Cougars, who eventually prevailed in the back-and-forth scrimmage, 40-27...

I'm back. Yes, I, The Great Fitzini, Seer of Seers, Prognosticator of Prognosticators, Sage of Sages and Sports Prophet Extraordinaire, am back for another year of predicting prep football games and defending my NEA Fantasy League title. The first week of the season is always one of the toughest weeks...

The Northeast Arkansas Trauma Regional Advisory Council (NEATRAC) is presenting law enforcement agencies in northeast Arkansas with life-saving tourniquets and bandages which will be used to save lives and limbs when these first responders face situations requiring rapid blood loss control.

"We love to read! We love to read!" could be heard reverberating from the football field next to Blytheville Elementary School Wednesday afternoon.

DYERSBURG -- The Dyer County Sheriff's Office, along with members of the Dyer County Rescue Squad as well as members of the Tennessee Highway Patrol, spent the last four days searching for a man reportedly missing since the early morning hours of Saturday, Aug.30...