Stories from Monday, November 9, 2015

Blytheville police are investigating a robbery at Flash Market, 1305 East Main, on Sunday. According to Capt. Scott Adams, the BPD CID commander, a store employee told police that two unidentified black males robbed the business at gunpoint. "The employee was behind the counter when the two subjects entered the store with guns," Adams said. ...

Three local residents face several charges following an incident Friday at the Kroger gas station. Shaquilla Rainey, Raven Wilson, and Roderick Wilson were arraigned in Blytheville District Court on Monday. Rainey and Raven Wilson face charges of criminal trespass, residential burglary (two counts), battery 3rd (four counts), battery 2nd, endangering the welfare of a minor (seven counts), and engaging in criminal gang activity...

George Anthony Swedholm, 60, of Mineral Point, Mo., died Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015, at the Washington County Memorial Hospital in Potosi, Mo. Born in St. Louis, he was the son of the late Wanda Lee Perrigan Swedholm and was a 1973 graduate of Maplewood High School. ...

Monette -- Royal Fletcher, 81, passed this life Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, at Flo and Phil Jones Hospice in Jonesboro. He was born Dec. 14, 1933, in Monette to the late Ernest and Vivian Simpson Fletcher. Royal was a graduate of Bay High School and Arkansas State University, and a veteran of the U.S. ...

Sylar Christopher Hill, 3, and Dawson Creed Popejoy, 1, loving brothers, entered into heaven together on Nov. 4, 2015 at their residence in Jonesboro. Sylar was born Dec. ...

Mississippi County Quorum Court justices decided Monday afternoon in a budget meeting to remove a $200,000 expenditure which had been proposed by county tax assessor Harley Bradley for payment to a private contractor he was hoping to hire to increase revenues in business personal tax collections...

The following are citations written by Blytheville Code Enforcement from Oct. 1-30. Listed are the property owner, followed by the mailing address, problem property and the violation. -- Good Value Home Ins.; 39805 Albright, Clinton Township, Mich.; 1017 Ash; weeds and grass...

The following candidates have officially filed for their respective positions on the 2016 Preferential Primary and Nonpartisan General Election ballots. The filing period ended at noon on Monday, November 9. Mississippi County County Judge Judge Randy L. Carney (D) of Osceola...

The following are reports from the Blytheville Police Department. Friday, Nov. 6 -- Police took a criminal mischief report in the 1300 block of South 8th. The offender scratched the victim's Lexus. -- Officers took a terroristic threatening report in the 1200 block of Denny...

George Anthony Swedholm, 60, of Mineral Point, Missouri, died Sunday November 8, 2015 at the Washington County Memorial Hospital in Potosi, Missouri. Born in St. Louis, he was the son of the late Wanda Lee Perrigan Swedholm and was a 1973 graduate of Maplewood High School. ...

Bennie Louis Jacobs, 56, of Osceola, passed away November 6, 2015 at Memphis, Tenn. Born on April 21, 1959 in Osceola to the late Willie Lee Jacobs and Bennie Mae Smith, he was a factory worker and member of Tabernacle M.B. Church of Osceola. He is preceded in death by his parents, and son Lawrence Lane...

Donna Hughes, 67, of Muskogee, Oklahoma and formerly of Blytheville, departed this life, Monday morning, November 9, 2015 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Cobb Funeral Home.

Mary Delphia Turley, 83, passed away on Oct. 29, 2015. She is survived by her husband Charles Turley; children Nona (Dennis) Grubbs and Chuck (Sherry) Turley; grandchildren Christopher Grubbs, Brittani (Danny) Sellers and Brandon Turley; great-grandson Grayson Sellers; brother Barry (Ann) Ball of Blytheville, Ark. and sister Vivian (Burl) Mahan of Paris, Tenn...

Monday morning, Main Street Blytheville executive director Tucker Nunn said Al Roker will be in Blytheville on Tuesday morning, not today (Monday) as originally thought. "I just talked to the producer and now they are saying it will be tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11 (a.m.)," Nunn said...