Stories from Saturday, March 12, 2016

Arkansas Northeastern College is utilizing technology to train future nurses, dental assistants, phlebotomists and paramedics. Labs mimic clinics, from replica dental chairs to a fully equipped ambulance simulator. Students diagnose "Sim Man" and determine what ailment the instructor has programmed in, creating a real life scenarios...

Blytheville police are investigating a shooting around 8:11 Saturday night at Cherry Tree in the 1000 block of Chickasawba. According to assistant police chief Ricky Jefferson, a juvenile shot 46-year-old Charles Williams in the parking lot of the convenience store and later treated and released at Great River Medical Center...

After watching numerous Jerry Springeresque public meetings recently regarding both the golf course and the budget cuts (i.e. fire department and public works layoffs) and especially in light of the upcoming "public forum" to be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 17 in the Blytheville High School Auditorium, I felt that it would be in order for me to explain a little about how public discourse can arrive at maximum benefit while protecting the town hall character...