Stories from Saturday, September 26, 2020

Editor’s note: This is a second feature in conjunction with September being prostate cancer awareness month. September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and Lloyd Wright of Gosnell is sharing his survival story in an effort to let men know early detection is important...

The 2018 audit of the City of Gosnell indicates former Gosnell city clerk/treasurer Kathleen Hunt-Cross used city credit cards for personal use. Cross resigned abruptly on March 19, 2020. “On March 17, 2020, an employee for the City of Gosnell issued a letter stating they had used the City’s Wal-Mart credit card and Wex gas card for personal use,” the audit reads. ...

Former Mississippi County Landfill director Wil Allen pled guilty to honest services fraud last Tuesday in federal court in Little Rock, according to court records. Allen was terminated in September 2018 after accusations he and his friend Joe Harlon Hamlett were involved in a scheme that allowed Ross Farms Trucking to dump about 70 loads that were never billed, which amounts to about $20,000. The date of the sentencing hearing has not been released...

A lively discussion of the placement of roll-off dumpsters in the southern part of Blytheville highlighted the monthly meeting of the Mississippi County Quorum Court Tuesday night at the Osceola Courthouse. As Justice Michael White was nearing the end of his comments concerning the Sept. 14 Finance Committee meeting, Justice Molly Jackson asked about the roll-offs which had been placed around the county. “Are they there because we missed clean up day?” asked Jackson...