Stories from Wednesday, February 8, 2023

A Trumann student was arrested this past Monday when it was learned he had a loaded weapon on his person while attending the basketball games at Wildcat Gym. The following statement was posted on the Trumann School District's Facebook page. “Trumann School District School Resource Officers and Administrators were notified that a student might have a gun in his possession inside the Trumann Gym (basketball game). ...

By SANDRA BRAND NEA Town Courier Editor Derrick Xavier Shields was 14 years old when he fatally shot Movie Magic clerk Laurie Troup in the face with a sawed-off shotgun on Nov. 18, 1999. After spending 17 years behind bars, Shields, at the age of 31, was released on a Supreme Court decision that retroactively bans life sentences for juveniles...

By Marcus McClain NEA Town Courier Before leaving office, former governor Asa Hutchinson announced 42 pardons on Dec. 6. And with the help of one former state representative, one of those pardons reached back to Blytheville in 1981. Now residing in Memphis, Cora McCray Pulley’s record held a Class B theft felony for numerous years. ...