Stories from Saturday, May 28, 2016

Each day thousands pass by Mississippi County's most famed solider perhaps without realizing it. Buried on the Blytheville courthouse lawn is World War II hero Edgar Harold Lloyd, a recipient of a Purple Heart and the Congressional Medal of Honor for going above and beyond the call of duty...

Justice Michael White pitched the proposed new Blytheville courthouse to Blytheville Rotarians Thursday, encouraging them to support both ballot measures in the Aug. 9 special election. The first ballot issue calls for a split of the current 1/2 percent hospital tax between the Mississippi County Hospital System and the building of a new courthouse in Blytheville...