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Blytheville Police Reports, Dec. 16
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
The following are reports from the Blytheville Police Department. Monday, Dec. 14 -- Officers took a report of a fraudulent use of a debit card ($283 transaction). -- Police took a violation of a protection order report in the 400 block of Hardin. -- Police took a criminal mischief report in the 1000 block of West Ash. The offender damaged a storm door...
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Main Street robber arraigned Wednesday
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
The second man accused of robbing a customer at The New York Store on Monday has surrendered to police. According to Capt. Scott Adams, the Blytheville Criminal Investigations Division Commander, at at approximately 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, 18-year-old Raymond Johnson surrendered himself to detectives of the Blytheville Police Department...
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Council Approves Trucks, Contract Extension and All-Hazard Mitigation Plans
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
The Blytheville City Council, in the abbreviated final regular meeting of 2015, agreed to purchase two four-wheel drive trucks for the Wastewater Department, extended its current lease-purchase agreement with Bancorp South on the city's trash trucks and adopted the Blytheville portion of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) required Mississippi County All Hazard Mitigation Plan...
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IHOP, Godfather's Pizza coming to Blytheville
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
Blytheville Building Inspector Rick Ash has confirmed to the CN that blueprints for the Love's Truck Stop, currently being constructed on a 26.54 acre property located on the southeast corner of Division Street and Interstate 55, includes plans for a International House of Pancakes (IHOP), Godfather's Pizza and a Chester's Chicken...
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EOC board to meet
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
The Mississippi County ECO board will meet at noon Thursday in regular session at the EOC office, 1400 N. Division. The public is invited to attend.
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Richardson returns to appeals board
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
Blytheville Police Officer Rodney Richardson will once again be going before the city's Appeals Board in an effort to get his job back. Richardson was dismissed from the department at the end of November of this year. No official explanation for the termination has been released and is not covered for request under Freedom of Information laws until a final determination has been made and all potential appeals have been exhausted...
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New landfill cell slated to be under construction by January
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
The Mississippi County Quorum Court spent some time during their Tuesday night meeting to re-vote on all of the ordinances which had been previously passed in their November meeting. For an ordinance to be legal, a two-thirds majority is required, and while a quorum was present at the November meeting, there were only seven justices present, which does not meet that requirement...
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Richard Armacost
(Obituary ~ 12/16/15)
Richard Lee "Dick" Armacost, 76, of Springboro, Ohio and formerly of Arkansas passed unexpectedly Sunday, December 6, 2015 at his residence. Born January 26, 1939 in Hollansburg, Ohio, Dick was the son of Howard Lee and Dorothy (Sparks) Armacost and was a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather...
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Frankie Kelley
(Obituary ~ 12/16/15)
Mrs. Frankie Jean Kelley, 82, of Holland, Mo. Died Sunday, December 13, 2015 at NEA Baptist Hospital in Jonesboro. Born May 19, 1933 n Pots Camp, Miss. To the late Willie Irene Buffington Sands and the late Elmer Cleveland Sanders, she attended school in Lost Cane and later completed her GED. She was a faithful member of the Holland Baptist Church...
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Johnnie Richards
(Obituary ~ 12/16/15)
Mr. Johnnie William Ray Richards, 63, of Marion died Monday, December 14, 2015 in Memphis. Born April 28, 1952 in Dyess, to the late John Edward Richard and the late Ellendor Sharp Richards, he was a farm worker and a member of the Upper Room Apostolic Church in Tyronza...
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Carolyn Campbell
(Obituary ~ 12/16/15)
Ms. Carolyn Jean Campbell, 63, of Trumann, died Saturday, December 5, 2015 in Jonesboro. Born April 9, 1952, in Marked Tree to the late George Mack and the late Gurthie Armstrong Mack, she was a homemaker and of the Pentecostal faith. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by one son, Arlen Dale Campbell, Jr. and two sisters, Cynthia Mack and Debbie McCrary...
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Berl Cohoon
(Obituary ~ 12/16/15)
Berl E. Cohoon, 95, of Hermondale, Mo., passed away the evening of December 14 at St. Bernard's hospital in Jonesboro. He was born on July 5, 1920 to Gurley and Thelma May McIntosh Cohoon. He was raised in the bootheel area and was very pleased his later years were spent on that same land...
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Roundtree given new permanent position at landfill
(Local News ~ 12/16/15)
The Quorum Court's personnel committee met Wednesday afternoon to discuss creating a new job title and job slot for landfill employee James Roundtree, at the recommendation of newly instated landfill director Will Allen. Landfill deputy director Cathey Byrd was away from work for several months during a legal dispute over her termination by former director Nathan Taylor, and while Byrd's job was eventually restated as the result of evidence discovered in a hearing, Roundtree had been filling her slot during her absence and Allen told the board that he had become indispensable to operations.. ...