Stories from Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The bonds are to offer around 2-4% over the life of the bonds (15 years). The resolution will need full council approval before bonds can be issued. Richard Depriest, Director of the Wastewater Department, said that both the 8th street pump station project and the curtains that were ordered last month are both on the way, but that the city was probably looking at the first week in September before they are going arrive and the projects are going to be begin...

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Chris Thyer, has announced a press conference at 2 p.m. at Arkansas Northeastern College. Thyer will give information about a major law enforcement operation that took place Tuesday in Mississippi County, specifically Blytheville...

Bill Sadler, Public Information Officer for the Arkansas State Police denied the rumor that someone had been shot thus far in Tuesday's law enforcement sweep in Blytheville. "Not true...there were no shots fired at any persons. There were some distraction devices that was used but no shots were fired," Sadler said...

"School choice" may appear a rather simple and straight forward concept for Arkansas school districts, but in Blytheville it certainly is not. Confusion, anger and misinformation has surrounded the Blytheville School Board's (BSD) actions relating to school choice transfers this year...

Brett and Shantel Sexton of Manila announce the arrival of their daughter, Raelynn Claire Sexton. Raelynn was born at 12:50 p.m. Aug. 1, 2015, at NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital. She is the sister of Corbin Lane Sexton...

"What if you had every single power at your fingertips?" Author Clay F. Turner will debut his fantasy novel, "Lodesyia", in the "Lodesyia" series at That Bookstore in Blytheville from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29...

Blytheville Courier News The Blytheville Baseball Softball Boosters will hold registration for the upcoming Fall Ball season from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, August 15 at the Blytheville Youth Sportsplex meeting room. A second registration will be from 10 to Noon Saturday, August 22 will evaluations following at 1 p.m...

Richard Lusby announced he would seek the Circuit Judge, Division 2, position for the 2nd Judicial District. The District consists of Clay, Crittenden, Craighead, Greene, Mississippi and Poinsett Counties. This vacancy occurred due to the death of Judge Lee Fergus...

Members of the Monette United Methodist Church has a campaign underway to raise funds to help with needed building projects. The building looks good, but it is over 100 years old and is in need of some work...

In an interview in the Town Crier published July 9, 2013, Caffie Suggs of Manila called each day special as she patiently waited for a kidney transplant. She had both her kidneys removed in 2005. She has undergone the 3-1/2 hour process of dialysis three days a week for over a decade...

Austin Pike, one of Buffalo Island Central's all-time basketball greats, inked a letter of intent with Central Baptist College of Conway Wednesday morning at the Mustang Athletic Complex in Monette...

Town Crier News Staff The first annual Howard Reeves Memorial Golf Tournament was held July 18-19 at Turkey Mountain Golf Course at Horseshoe Bend. The proceeds from the tournament will provide scholarships to graduates from three high schools...

Mississippi County Sheriff Dale Cook told the CN that his jail facility did not have space for all of the people arrested in Tuesday morning's crime sweep, and those processed through will have to be sent elsewhere. "If I didn't have those two pods down I could have taken them, or at least two-thirds of them. But we currently have 66 beds shut down because of air conditioning problems," he said...

Chistopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Scott Ellington, Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial District of Arkansas, announced today the simultaneous unsealing of 40 federal indictments charging 70 defendants in a major operation aimed at curbing drug trafficking and gun violence in Blytheville and Mississippi County. ...

By TOM HENRY Blytheville Courier News Well before sunrise Tuesday morning, numerous citizens of Blytheville felt their homes shake as helicopters flew overhead. Even more Blytheville citizens felt a very real martial police presence in the city as they drove to work and saw dozens of police cruisers and unmarked SUVs. ...

BLYND JUSTUS INDIVIDUAL DEFENDANTS/CHARGES 1.Amos, Quincy, a/k/a "Q", 38, Osceola 
 Crack distribution 2.Anderson, Arthur, 39, Blytheville 
Conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine Methamphetamine distribution 3.Anderson, Dexter, a/k/a "Foo", 28, Blytheville 
Methamphetamine distribution...