Stories from Monday, March 28, 2016

The following are reports from the Blytheville Police Department. -- Police took a theft report (vehicle tag) in the 100 block of West Vine. -- Officers took a criminal mischief report (driver front window) in the 1000 block of South Division. -- Police took a criminal mischief report (seven windows, one door window) at Blytheville High School. The offenders allegedly threw rocks at the windows and door...

Katherine "Kathy" Irene Highland, 62, of Caraway, passed from this life Sunday, March 27, 2016, at her home. Born in St. Louis, Mo., she was the daughter of the late Eugene and Florence Evans Reed and had been a longtime Caraway resident. She was a retired certified nursing assistant having worked at several area nursing homes...

Harold Dean Morgan, Sr., 81, of Huntingdon, Tenn., formerly of Manila, passed from this life Friday, March 25, 2016, at the Jackson-Madison Hospital in Jackson, Tenn. Born in Manila, he was the son of the late Connie and Victoria McCracken Morgan and had lived in Arkansas and Missouri several years before making his home in Tennessee nine years ago. ...

Blytheville Courier News DYERSBURG-The Jonesboro Hurricane scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh and beat the Gosnell Pirates, 3-2, Friday in the Dyersburg Easter Bash. Gosnell scored a run in the second and broke a 1-1 tie with a run in the top of the seventh before Jonesboro scored two runs to win the game...

DYERSBURG-After giving up four runs in the top of the first inning, the Gosnell Pirates held Cape Girardeau scoreless over the final five innings and came back to win Friay night, 9-4, in the final game of the Dyersburg Easter Bash. The Pirates scored five runs over the first two innings to take the lead and then plated three more in the fourth and one run in the sixth on their way to the victory...