Stories from Saturday, February 11, 2017

The trial of murder suspect Javander Williams is scheduled to begin Tuesday in Circuit Court. He is accused in the May 18, 2015 death of 17-year-old Dewaun Miller. A sophomore at Blytheville High School at the time, Miller was shot to death in the 1000 block of Clark Street...

The Blytheville City Finance and Purchasing Committee met Thursday for its regular monthly meeting and unanimously agreed to send the Mayor's proposed "Public Safety Tax" to the full council for approval. The proposed "Public Safety Tax" would have a 10-year sunset and would be used "for public safety purposes or to pay and secure the repayment of Capital Improvement Bonds, or both."...

Patty Helen Watson, 62, of Manila, passed from this life Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, at her home. Born at Wilson, she was the daughter of the late Sidney William Derwood and Helen Earnestine York Pollard. ...