Stories from Saturday, July 8, 2017

Monday evening, the Blytheville City Council’s Code Enforcement, Animal Control and Parks and Recreation committees discussed an array of topics, ranging from the need to replace street lights on the south end of town to a possible new exhibit for the Delta Gateway Museum...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on makingheadlinenews.com and is being reprinted with permission of the website. Rhonda Hodges recently had a photo shoot done. This particular shoot, as far as she was concerned, was worth certainly celebrating, as evidenced by the awe-inspiring message staged under a newly-erected photo on her Facebook timeline Wednesday evening...

Multiple former employees and past inmates say the facility is dangerous, the state says that simply is not true. Critics say the building needs repair, the state says it’s already been done. The 240-bed residential facility for men was constructed in 1999 and is located at 1351 Cyro Road in Osceola. ...

“She died (It happened) on a Tuesday,” said Forrest after the passing of his mother in the 1994 classic “Forrest Gump.” With the news coming on Tuesday that Grizzlies star power forward Zach “Z-Bo” Randolph was headed to the Kings and then he signed on Thursday for two years, $24 million dollars — it happened to the Grizzlies...

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity,” Nelson Mandela once said. “It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.”...