Stories from Wednesday, April 22, 2015

I don't know how many of you even noticed the article in last Thursday's paper about the National Geographic writer and Lincoln's Tomb.

This week has been a great week for the Blytheville Humane Society. Hollywood Feed saw Armand and Jacob find their forever families. Hope, who met her forever family last week, was united with them this weekend. Sadie, a Lhasa, was adopted. Jamie, our border collie in foster home, was officially adopted also...

The Blytheville Police Department has announced the retirement of a veteran dispatcher. Martha Washington began working with the Blytheville Police Department in April of 1995, under the direction of Chief Ralph Hill. Washington is calling it a career, after serving the citizens of Blytheville and the surrounding communities for 20 years...

A Blytheville man was pulled off his motorcycle by a low-hanging cable wire on West Rose Street Tuesday night.

After a brief foot pursuit around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Blytheville officers arrested 23-year-old Donyel Hopkins near the Moultrie Drive railroad tracks.

Desmond Wells, 35, of Blytheville, died Sunday, April 19, 2015, at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis.

A time of fun and relaxation was in the cards for every person who entered the BHS Gym Tuesday night for an evening with the Harlem Wizards, a show basketball team from Harlem, New York. The exhibition was sponsored by the Blytheville Public Schools' parent-teacher organizations, and featured outrageous acts by the Wizards with a little basketball thrown in...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. -- The Armorel Tigers improved to 14-7 overall on the season after a 10-6 win over the Caruthersville, Missouri Tigers. Caruthersville scored three in the first, a run in the fourth inning and two more in the sixth. Armorel scored a run in the first, four in the second, three in the third and two more in the fourth...

GOSNELL --The Gosnell Lady Pirates dropped both games of a 3-4A conference doubleheader Tuesday night. The Lady Pirates lost the first gane 6-0 and then dropped the second 10-2 to the visiting oppoenent, Pocahontas Lady Redskins. Pocahontas 6, Gosnell 0...

Here's a wrap up of the BBSB action from Monday, April 20 and Tuesday, April 21 at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex. MINOR LEAGUE Dever Electric rallied four runs in their final at bat to post a 9-7 win over TSN Tuesday night in Minor League action...

FORREST CITY -- The Blytheville Chickasaws snapped a 64-game conference losing streak Tuesday night thanks to a 7-5 over Forrest City in the first game of a doubleheader. The last time the Chicks won a 5A-East game, current Gosnell head coach Blake Burnside was the coach -- on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 in game one of a doubleheader at Helena-West Helena...

The Blytheville/Gosnell Regional Airport Authority is looking to sell a building to Five Star Hydraulics, which is currently leasing the facility, known as Building 556.