Stories from Monday, January 30, 2017

A great weight will most likely be lifted from the community in general and the school district in particular on February 9, 2017. In two letters dated January 27 and signed by M. Annette Barnes, Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Public School Accountability at the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE), the Blytheville Public School District was notified that the ADE will be recommending that the Arkansas State School Board remove the district and Blytheville High School from its current Academic Distress status during their February 9 meeting in Little Rock.. ...

Mrs. Norma June "Oma" Frazer, age 87, died on January 27, 2017 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She was born August 14, 1929 in Burdette to the late Razzie and Ida May Chafin. She was predeceased by her siblings, Woodrow, Betty, Eva, and Gerald; husband O.B. and her daughter Lynn Hough (Frazer)...

Blytheville police have made an arrest in the slaying of 38-year-old Bennie Holliman.