Stories from Wednesday, October 5, 2022

The Haven of Northeast Arkansas is promoting activities to recognize October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Haven is a much-needed agency that has been called a “beacon of hope when there is no hope”. The month was kicked off with a proclamation day on Friday, Sept. 30 at Walker Park...

Vivian McAdoo Harrison was honored Friday night as the Blytheville High School 1969 Homecoming Queen.

Marcia Lou Hancock was honored as a 1950 Senior Maid on the BHS Court.

The Blytheville Police Department took a theft of property report at Perkins/Bistro 1121 Wednesday, Sept. 28. Owner Don Houseworth told police that over the last several months, tens of thousands of dollars worth of food and other items had come up missing...

Arturo Gutierrez, of Blytheville, was arrested by Blytheville Police Department officers on a third degree domestic battery charge Wednesday, Sept. 28. Dispatch advised officers a child called 911 stating his mother and step-father were fighting and his mother was injured. When officers arrived at 407 Dougan, the physical altercation had ended. The victim advised officers Gutierrez had placed her arms behind her back and had shaken her after a verbal altercation...

Rev. John Henry Baker, 81, of Osceola passed away Sept. 29, 2022, at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was the former pastor of Mt. Olive M.B. Church in Burdette and was a member of True Grace Gospel Church in Osceola. John H. Baker was born Aug. 28, 1941, to Robert and Maereaner Phillips Baker. He was preceded in death by his wife, Erma Walters Baker; his parents, Robert and Maereaner Baker...

Abel “RuRu” Russo Woodruff, 49, passed on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock. Abel was born Jan. 17,1973, in Blytheville to Dorothy Mae (Johnson) Tunstall and the late Aron Lee Woodruff. Abel graduated in 1991 from Blytheville High School and later attended Arkansas State University in Jonesboro...