Stories from Thursday, August 27, 2015

I am not calling the hogs, I am calling the hogs out for continuing to peddle former Arkansas Athletic Director Frank Broyles' "Kool-aide" of squealing, crying and running away from an annual game with the Arkansas State Red Wolves Football team. Its loudest argument has been that Arkansas is too small to support two successful big time programs and therefore all support and resources should be directed to "Hog Heaven" in Fayetteville. Not true...

According to a document released by Mississippi County government, the city of Blytheville currently owes the county over $700,000 in back jail fees. As of July 31 of this year, the total in unpaid fees is $737,211.94. The document states that the city owes $80,861.94 from the year of 2010, with 2011 and 2012 left out due to the agreement reached between the two government entities, and a total of $656,350 owed for the years 2013 and 2014 through the present...

Blytheville police are investigating a shooting, involving juveniles, Wednesday night, in the 1000 block of South Lilly. No injuries were reported. According to the police report, the juvenile victim said another juvenile shot at her. She was apparently driving south on Lilly towards Walls Street and saw her ex-boyfriend -- the alleged shooter -- standing in the street...

By AARON FITZPATRICK Blytheville Courier News BLYTHEVILLE-The Blytheville Chickasaws unofficially kicked off the 2015 football season Tuesday night with their annual AAA Benefit Game scrimmage. The Chicks hosted the 3-4A defending co-champions, Pocahontas Redskins, at Haley Field with the proceeds going to the AAA catastrophic injury insurance program...

Jimmie D. Bollinger, 83, of Ravenden, former longtime Manila resident, passed from this life Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Walnut Ridge. Born in Manila to the late Samuel A. ...

Clinton, Tenn. -- Donald Ray Strickland, 77, passed away peacefully Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. Raised in Black Oak, Don was the youngest of Billy and Etta Strickland's 13 children. He was a graduate of Monette High School and Arkansas State University. ...

Retha Harpe, 85, of Lake City passed away Aug. 25, 2015 in Germantown, Tenn. She was born Jan. 14, 1930, in Black Oak to the late Andrew Jackson Mangrum and Stella Mae Porter Mangrum. Retha was retired from Methodist Hospital in Memphis and became a housewife who enjoyed cooking, sewing and traveling. ...

Wayne Lloyd Mifflin, 85, of Manila died Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2015, at St. Bernards Medical Center in Jonesboro. Born March 15, 1930, in Manila, he was the son of the late Alfred and Esther Moore Mifflin and was a graduate of Childress High School. ...