Stories from Saturday, April 16, 2016

The April regular meeting of the Blytheville Finance Committee was long and included some very important and heated topics such as the partial use of a park and recreation certificate of deposit to fund Thunder Bayou Golf Links (TB) through August, a new proposed city resolution in response to Obamacare, putting GPS in 51 city vehicles, and returning future funds to the sewer department rather than setting them back for "jail fees."...

A man lost his life in an industrial accident at Nucor-Yamato Steel on Saturday night, county coroner Mike Godsey confirmed. The victim's name is being withheld at this time. At 8:40 p.m. Saturday, Sheriff Dale Cook told the CN that deputies are on the scene and details of the incident are unknown at this time...