Stories from Saturday, June 24, 2017

“Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small,” William Penn. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke...

CRAIGHEAD COUNTY — Arts Council of Mississippi County assistant director Ken Jackson perished in a two-car crash around 2:13 p.m. Saturday on Highway 18 near County Road 945, according to an Arkansas State Police report. The 53-year-old Jackson of Blytheville was westbound in his 2004 Buick when driver John Ridge of Lake City crossed the centerline in his eastbound 2005 Nissan and apparently caused the head-on collision, the report said...