Stories from Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Buffalo Island Central shut out Senath-Hornersville 6-0 Friday afternoon on the road. The Mustangs scored a single run in the fourth and tacked on four more in the fifth before adding another run in the sixth to gain the victory...

Manila Lady Lions split four games on the softball field last week, gaining wins over Marked Tree and RIvercrest before losing to Concord and Southside. The Lady Lions began the week, thrashing Marked Tree 16-7 Tuesday on the road. ...

Manila completed a successful week on the diamond by outslugging Brookland 12-11 Saturday. Ethan Navarro pitched four innings, allowing just five hits, to pick up the win for Manila. Brett Sweatman earned the save with an inning and a third of no-hit, no-run baseball. Sweatman also blasted a home run and added a double while scoring three times to lead the Lion offense...

Riverside ran its record to 8-1 overall and a perfect 4-0 in 2A-3 conference play with a 10-0 shutout of Rector Tuesday afternoon at Lake City. Larry Tilley was the hitting star for the Rebels, driving in four runs while belting a double and a single and scoring a run. ...

Scotty and Aleyna Riley of Steele, Mo., are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Shelby Paige Riley to Jacob Timothy Britt. Jacob is the son of Gordon Britt and Curtis amd Peggy Burton Lopez of Manila. He is a graduate of Manila High School and is currently employed at Primetals in Blytheville...

The Ladybug Garden Club is accepting nomination for its Yard of the Month awards. Do you know someone who spends time beautifying their yard and their neighborhood? Club members feel these people need to be rewarded because of their contribution to the beauty of Blytheville...

Monette Masonic Lodge #558 held its annual family fish dinner and awards ceremony Monday, March 21. Worshipful Master Colin Miller presented Eddie Dunign with the prestigious Pillars of Solomon Award. ...

Lake City Mayor Jon Milligan requested the appointment of Ellen Stewart to serve on the board of the Lake City Housing Authority at the March 28 city council meeting. Mrs. Stewart's term began March 1, 2016, and ends May 31, 2021...

Wayne Menley with Miller Newell Engineers shared information with the Monette City Council concerning the proposed combination loan grant for the sewer plant project during the March 28 meeting...

Manila Mayor Wayne Wagner said the highway department is ready to proceed with the four-lane highway starting at Olympia Ditch and going both east and west. He said the city's sewer lines have to be moved before the work can proceed...

Bobby Austin, Manila Senior Center site director, was honored Friday with a luncheon. It was a double celebration for his birthday and retirement. Austin has been with the senior citizens for over 11 years. He delivered meals to the homebound for most of those years and served as site director for the last six months...

Leadership lessons learned the hard way by an old Soldier: These lessons apply to not only young military officers, but leaders and managers everywhere. Bad news does not improve with age; tell your boss bad news quickly before it starts to smell. Young officers and young leaders need to understand, nothing is perfect--things go wrong. ...

The following are reports from the Blytheville Police Department. -- Police took a criminal mischief report in the 200 block of South Ruddle. The offender shot the victim's bumper. -- Officers investigated a domestic battery in the 900 block of South Ruddle. The victim said her boyfriend choked her...

By AARON FITZPATRICK Blytheville Courier News GOSNELL-Matthew Miller's two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning helped lift the Gosnell Pirates to a 5-4 win over the Cave City Cavemen in game one of a 3-4A double header Monday night. In game two, the Pirates won decisively, 10-0, in five innings...

Blytheville Courier News GOSNELL-The Gosnell Lady Pirates lost a non conference game to Rivercrest, 7-4, Monday night. Gosnell scored a pair of runs in the first inning and two more in the fifth. Rivercrest scored run in the first, two in the second, one in the fifth and three in the sixth...

A seizure led to a three-car accident Sunday morning at the intersection of North Division and West Main Street. Around 9:10 a.m. Sunday, two vehicles were stopped at the red light, facing south at the intersection. Police say, while driving his 2000 Nissan Xterra, Quincy Selvy, Jr. of Blytheville had a seizure and struck the rear end of a 1996 Dodge Ram, driven by Casey Russ of Blytheville. Officers say Selvy's vehicle continued forward and struck the driver side of a third vehicle...

Blytheville Courier News BATESVILLE-The Armorel Tigers went 1-2 over the weekend in the Batesville Tournament falling to Harding Academy Friday, 4-0 and Pocahontas 5-4 Saturday before beating Beebe, 7-3, Saturday night. FROM 4-1 Harding Academy 4, Armorel 0...

Blytheville police are investigating armed robberies Monday night at Jordan's Quick Stop on West Main and Pizza Hut on East Main -- both allegedly committed by two females. Around 9:30 p.m. Monday, a Jordan's employee told police that two African American females wearing black hoodies and masks robbed the store of $110. The employee said one of the women pointed a hand gun at him and demanded he open the safe...

Raymond Carlton Godsey, 39, of Manila was arrested just before 2 a.m. Sunday, April 3 on counts of felony possession/delivery of a controlled substance and misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance. Around 1:30 a.m. Sgt. Jeremy Sharp of the Mississippi County Sheriff's Department was patrolling on Park Road near the levee in Luxora when he observed a white car parked off the road with its exterior lights off. ...

By TOM HENRY Blytheville Courier News The Career Pathways Initiative (CPI) at Arkansas Northeastern College (ANC) sponsored three two-hour workshops Monday for job seekers, to help them prepare for the Job Fair to be held on Thursday, April 7 at the ANC Wellness Center...

Though it has been a successful program for many years, representatives from the Blytheville Area Soccer Association (BASA) say that they may have to consider canceling this fall's season, due to the extremely poor condition of the fields, which are supposed to be maintained by the City of Blytheville...

A'Myrah "Princess" Boyd, the 8-month old daughter of Albert Boyd, Jr. and Shaqueynae Phelps, both of Gosnell, died Wednesday, March 30 at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. In addition to her parents, she leaves her grandmothers, Sarah Phelps of Blytheville and Farrah Love of Gosnell;...

Mr. Frank Rill Henderson, Jr., 67, of Blytheville, died Sunday, April 3, 2016 at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born on January 6, 1949 in Batesville, Miss. to the late Frank Rill Henderson, Sr. and Inez Green Henderson of Blytheville, he was retired, a Vietnam veteran of the United States Army and a member of the New St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church...

Mrs. Joann Razor Bills, 59, of Blytheville died Saturday, April 2, 2016 at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born April 11, 1956 in Wilson to the late Freddie Pollard and the late Willie B. Rogers Lane, she was a factory worker and a member of the Prince of Peace Church...

In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by four brothers; Lee Shrable, Jack Shrable, Goldman Shrable, and Woodrow Shrable and two sisters; Leucretta Ray and Marie Woodhouse. Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Glenda Wilkey Johnson of the home;...

Lawrence Echols, Sr. was born July 29, 1928 in Hernando, Miss. to Lorn and Crease Elnora Echols, deceased. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Elijah Wallace and Jessie Echols and one sister, Lillie V. Yarbrough. He accepted Christ at an early age...

Charles A. "Cotton" Webb, 72, of Hardy, Ark., formerly of Blytheville, was released from his earthly chains and moved beyond them a free and healthy man to be with the Lord on April 4, 2016. Born in Etowah, on May 2, 1943, to Wylie Joe and Beatrice Brothers Webb, he was given the childhood nickname of Cotton because of his nearly white hair. This is the name that most knew him by and that stayed with him until the end...

Ms. Theodora Rosabelle Jackson, 70, of Osceola, died Tuesday, March 29, 2016 in her home. Born December 19, 1945 in St. Louis to the late Theodore Roosevelt Quinn, Sr. and the late Anna Mae Arzell Nash, she was a retired accountant, a member of St. John Full Gospel Church and a member of the Watch Committee...

Durrell Lynn Warren, 59, of Dyersburg, Tennessee died suddenly at his home last Saturday, April 2, 2016. He was born in Lambert, Miss. on November 10, 1956 to Grady and Aleen Ferguson Warren. After graduating from high school, he attended junior college, where he met his future wife, Carol Hathcock. They celebrated their 36th anniversary in January of this year. He then graduated from Mississippi State University...

William L. Haskins, 72, of Mountain Home passed away April 2, 2016, at the Baxter Regional Medical Center in Mountain Home. Born March 9, 1944, in Theodosia, Mo., he was the son of the late Lexie and Nola Sewell Haskins. He was of the Pentecostal faith and enjoyed hunting and fishing...