Stories from Thursday, February 23, 2017

A thief apparently broke into Mississippi County Electric Company and set fire to a decorative cotton bale early Thursday morning. According to the police report, around 4:53 a.m. Thursday police responded to MCEC on North Broadway, finding a broken window on the north side of the building and a 70-inch flat screen television on the ground...

Mrs. Sharon L. Looney, 78, of Blytheville, passed away Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at the Great River Medical Center in Blytheville. She was a homemaker who was born to Fred and Bonnie Horton on January 25, 1939 in Polo, Illinois. Mrs. Looney leaves to cherish her memories, her husband, Ralph Looney of Blytheville and one sister, Dorothy...

Mr. H.D. "Shorty" Lyle, 103, passed away at his granddaughter's home in Elizabethtown, Ky. early Thursday morning, February 23, 2017. He was born Howell Dellman Lyle in Dumas, Arkansas on December 29, 1913 to Henry Dellman Lyle and Ethel (Mauney) Lyle...