Stories from Sunday, December 4, 2016

Want a chance to win a $50 Buy Blytheville gift card? Send us a photo of an ugly Christmas sweater. Southern Bancorp is sponsoring this year's fun "Courier News Ugly Christmas Sweater Contest." The Greater Blytheville Area Chamber of Commerce is also co-sponsoring the fun...

Johnny Bradshaw Boyd, 78, of Manila, passed from this life, Friday Dec. 2, 2016 at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. Born in Leachville, he was the son of the late Coy Willie and LaVon Bradshaw Boyd and was a lifelong area resident. ...

Glenn Dobbins, 85, of Manila, passed from this life, Saturday Dec. 3, 2016, at the NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital in Jonesboro. Born in the Hancock community near Caraway, he was the son of the late Austin and Bertha Jones Dobbins and was raised in Milligan Ridge. ...